Regarding Burning Effects in Coaches

[baldwin]

Just to be clear how do you see this being used? Once a train catches fire it surely stops as soon as possible ....and therefore becomes a static object?

Not me wanting flaming coaches. I am only suggesting a possible method to achieve this.

[R. Steele]

ANY "incident" to your driven train in MSTS results in "an end game"?!

Frankly, who cares what would happen in MSTS. The OP posted this in OR.
There is a large and growing community of Open Rails users in the IR community. Additionally the development of OR is now starting, at long last, to diverge from being a platform that is backward compatible to legacy MSTS content to a rail simulator that is to be judged on its own merit.
So to look at new ideas with reference to how they would have worked in MSTS is irrelevant to the forward progress of OR.
More productive to figure out if it's possible for OR to support the concept and how to do it.
Flaming cars - not for me - but it's interesting that people are thinking of new ways to use the sim that may fit their localities.

[ebnertra000]

Random 'incidents' could be an interesting way to spice up activities. ZDSimulator does this, from bad signals to damaged catenaries to engine fires. If that's in OR's future, it'll be a ways out

[sumit7tnp]

Dear Sirs

Thanks for your kind replies.

I have a small question whose answer I am looking for.

In the animfire.zip , I got Files for Shapes ( .s & .sd) & texture (.ace) files.
{Snapshot animfire shape & texture.jpg attached for reference}.

Now my question is - How to add these Fire related files to my coach files.
{coach files super exp.jpg attached for reference}

.s file can be uncompressed using route riter & can be opened in notepad.
But the addition of fire in coach .s file I am not understanding.

If anyone can teach me in easy language, Then it would be a great help.

thanks in Advance.

Hope for a positive response.

With Best Regards
Sumit Mehrotra

[ebnertra000]

You don't add it to the coach's shape file. You make it a FreightAnim in the .wag file

[csantucci]

How to add an OR-specific FreightAnim is explained in paragraph 9.3.2 of the manual. In this case a "static" FreightAnim should be added.

[sumit7tnp]

Dear Sir

Please share the link of the manual which you are suggesting.

Thanks for ur kind support.
With best Regards
Sumit Mehrotra

[ebnertra000]

If you have OR, you already have it. It should be in a subfolder of your installation called 'Documentation' or something like that

[R. Steele]

See the screenshot for locations of all documents. I know the manual has been translated to many other languages - you'll have to choose which one will suit you.
bandicam 2017-09-08 10-22-20-838.jpg

[sumit7tnp]

Dear Sirs

Greetings..!!!

Thanks for your continuous support as always.

I have found the Manual & tried to add the static Freight Anim in my wag file.

But When view in shape viewer , the intended result was not obtained ie wagon with fire. (Reference image attached.)

I have attached my changed wag file for reference.

Also attached Animated fire files as required.

Kindly check & suggest my mistake point.

Thank You.

With Best Regards
Sumit Mehrotra

[csantucci]

Shape viewer does not show OR-specific freight animations. You have to look at them within OR.

Moreover, if you read well the manual (top of paragraph "Continuous freight animations) you will see that the added lines must be added in a new .wag file (with the same name of the base .wag file) to be laid in an Openrails subfolder within the wagon's folder, that the first line of this file must be empty, and take also care of the syntax of the include line.

Computers don't understand approximate syntaxes.

[sumit7tnp]

Dear Csantucci Sir

I Have a question.

How same .wag files can exist within a same coach folder?

I have attached wag files. Can you please help me in making wag file as per manual. I tried, but not succeed.

Sorry to trouble many times. Kindly forgive me considering as a new member.

Thanks for your kind support as always.

With Best Regards
Sumit Mehrotra

[markyisri]

Shape viewer does not show OR-specific freight animations. You have to look at them within OR.

Or using GokuMK's Consist Editor, which is much better than any other one for MSTS and displays those.

Computers don't understand approximate syntaxes.

Well said.

[csantucci]

You must first create an Openrails subdirectory within the wagon directory (in your case within the SUPER EXP COACHES directory) and then you put the new .wag file in such Openrails subdirectory.

[sumit7tnp]

Dear Sir

Kindly guide on How to create Open Rails subdirectory within my wagon directory.

Thanks in advance.