Invisible cab/common.cab help

[railbison]

Hi, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, just wanted to ask. I have installed a train in my MSTS folder, for use in Open Rails, but the cab is invisible. I have attached a couple of screenshots, and was just wondering if anyone could spot if I've done anything wrong?

Many thanks for any help,
alstheman5


HST Folder in commoncab.jpg


common.cab Code.jpg

[=FI=Ghost]

Hello and welcome to the Trainsim forum!

First of all, you have to check your locomotive's .eng file and see which cab is aliased to it. Open the .eng file and scroll down to the line that begins with "Cabview". There, next to it, in the brackets will be the name of the cab used on that locomotive.

The .cvf file of the cab has to be present in the folder "CABVIEW" of the given locomotive's folder.

Then you have to make sure that the required cab is properly installed.

[slipperman]

Hi alstheman5,
Although your first screenshot is difficult to see properly, it appears that you that you may have folder HSTCab in a folder called commoncab and not common.cab as specified in the Cabview line.

I don't know if MSTS or ORTS accept absolute addressing, but the line in your .eng file would normally be written as :
Cabview ( "../../common.cab/HSTCab/hstcab.cvf" )

Cheers,
Ged

EDIT : after enlarging your screenshot, I think your folder is common.cab, so apologies for my first statement.

@ Borislav :

The .cvf file of the cab has to be present in the folder "CABVIEW" of the given locomotive's folder.

Sorry, but that is not true!

[baldwin]

Possibly having the full path in the cabview line is confusing the system. Common.cab usually resides in the Trainset folder as it does in this case, so the normal way of writing would be

Cabview ( ..\\..\\common.cab\\HSTcab\\HSTcab.cvf ) ,however, aliasing from the common.cab also requires that the cvf in the common.cab/HSTcab folder must also have the aliasing set for each ace file in the folder that is used.

CabViewFile ( ..\\..\\Common.Cab\\HSTcab\\43HSTfront1024.ace )

[crstagg]

……….
,however, aliasing from the common.cab also requires that the cvf in the common.cab/HSTcab folder must also have the aliasing set for each ace file in the folder that is used.

CabViewFile ( ..\\..\\Common.Cab\\HSTcab\\43HSTfront1024.ace )

Wrong! That is only correct when the CVF is located in the …\Trainset\ENG-Folder\CabView folder.