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Overall Livery

Some classes of locomotives have one or more members of the class in specific livereies (often advertising).

 

RhB Ge 4/4iii in overall advertising livery "Holcim".  There are 12 members of this class, and they all carry different liveries.

Photo: Mark Goodspeed

Previously, this could only be achieved in Rail3D by modelling each locomotive seperately: a potentially timeconsuming and wasteful process.

From Rail3D version 108.0.2, overall liveries are now supported in the program.

To setup a class with overall liveries

Overall liveries are achieved by using a skin template including "%n"

For example the header of the Ge4/4iii model defines the number range as 641 - 652 and the skin template as rhb_ge443_%n.tga :

Number 641-652 %3d 
Skin "rhb_ge443_%n.tga"


To find the skin to use for each loco, Rail3D replaces the "%n" in the skin texture name with the loco number, thus:

  • rhb_ge443_641.tga
  • rhb_ge443_642.tga
  • rhb_ge443_643.tga
  • etc

So, in the stock folder, we can provide inidivudal textures, and the appropriate livery is selected according to the number of the loco.

Notes:

  • If you don't know provide a texture for a specific number, the template texture (with %n) is used.  So if only a few class members carry special liveries, you would make the base %n texture the standard livery and this will then be used on the majority of the class, you can then provide the special liveries for the classes that require it.
  • You must provide a template (%n) texture, even if it is not used because all the class have special liveries: the loading and selection process will not work without the template texture.

MRG 10/09/2013 21:01:43