3D Cabview Question

[drjayyyy]

07-16-2025, 07:03

Hello. A few years ago Dekosoft came out with engine packs consisting of EMD standard cab and Widecabs and GE widecabs all with 3D Cabs. If you know how to edit an eng. you could easily add the cabs to whatever you chose. Dekosoft closed shop last year My question is would Train-Sim be able make Dekosoft content available in the Train-Sim store? I'm not
criticizing but the quality of rolling stock content [in this case locomotives] has gone way up. I've seen freeware that's up there with payware.But no 3D cabs. Correction !!! I have Tyler Bundys SD40 s with the 3D cabs. Here's some screenshots of the Dekosoft cabs.I hope arrangements could be made to reintroduce these. They add another dimension to the Sim..
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[oper190]

NO, you are still incorrect.

Thanks for the clarification. Haven't used any engine with fully functional 3D caps yet, and those first posted images looked like your typical 2D cab views, which is what made me think they were 2D, or were the 5 view cabs some MSTS engines had. Sorry or any confusion cause on my part.

[kennyeaton]

Thank y'all for your input to the question.

As I have said in other threads here, I have no idea how to create shape files. I could imagine that it is a tedious process.

I have one more question regarding the shape file of the cabview that I posted a few photos of. It seem like shape file manager only reverses it one way. The question, is there a program that can open up an existing shape in order to modify it? An example of what I'm getting at would be say adding a control stand to the other side of the cab. Yellowdog had mentioned above railroad specific units. As I remember, most all if not all units owned by Norfolk and Western had dual control stands on every unit up until the early 80's. I believe that the 6000 and 6100 series SD40-2's were the first units delivered with a single control stand positioned for long hood forward with a low nose on the short end.

Back to the question, are there any shape file programs that will open an existing shape in order to modify it like I mentioned?

Kenny

[yellowdog]

Not directly, no. And it's too bad Tyler dropped out of the scene. He was easy to work with and would sometimes take requests like this.