3D cab question

[Shortliner]

I was wondering whether or not 3D cabs can be made for locomotives independent of the locomotives source file, or do I need the locomotive source file in order to get the 3D cabs to work with that particular locomotive?

[ebnertra000]

I don't think there is any need to have the source file for a specific engine. It may help, just to make things match up with it, but if they followed the original design, one could easily follow the original plans if they're available

[Erick_Cantu]

The 3D cab is a separate model, but if anything is visible from inside the cab, you'll need to re-create it. Note that you can decompress the 3D cab shape and add paths to the textures to avoid duplicating them. If, for example, your cab has a hood visible from a window, and the hood on the model uses a texture called "HOODS.ace," you can search for the filename in the shape and change it to "../HOODS.ace" and OR will look in the parent folder for the texture.