The new patch enabling dual cab operation, and night/day cab switching in tunnels and at sunrise and sunset is available from
http://mstsbin.uktrainsim.com/eng/eng.html
Follow the instructions to install the patch, once you have done so, follow the steps below.
To enable this to work with the items of stock you have downloaded, you must edit a number of things, firstly we will begin with the night cab.
1) Open up your Microsoft Games/Train Sim/TRAINS/TRAINSET folder
2) Open up the item of rolling stock you wish to edit, for the purposes of this tutorial we shall use the Class 101 unit which comes with the Cambrian Coast pack, so we would open up the '3DTS_101_GREEN' folder.
3) Open up the CABVIEW folder.
4) Create a new folder called 'NIGHT'
5) Search for any .ACE file which contains the word 'night', or similar, and place these in the 'NIGHT' folder
6) Go into the 'NIGHT' folder and remove the 'night', or similar, in the filename, so that it represents the non-night time .ACE file,
EG Daytime filename = 3DTS_DMUleft1024
Nightime filename = 3DTS_DMUleft1024_night
Remove the '_night' from the Nighttime filename after you have placed it in the 'NIGHT' folder.
Once you have done that, your cabview should succesfully change from day time to night time mode (and vice-versa) when entering tunnels, at Sunset, and Sunrise.
Now, you might want the dual cab mode that is included in the patch, so follow these steps to achieve this, we will use the same Trainset folder again, which is the '3DTS_101_GREEN' folder.
1) Go into the 'CABVIEW' folder
2) Search for the .cvf file you wish to edit, this will normally be the daytime version if there are more than two, for this train is is the '3DTSDMU101.CVF' file.
3) Open this in notepad
Below is what you should see once you have opened this up,
Code:
SIMISA@@@@@@@@@@JINX0h0t______
Tr_CabViewFile (
CabViewType ( 2 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUfront1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndFrn.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUleft1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndLft.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -57.85 0 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUright1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndRgt.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )
EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcM_green )
CabViewControls ( 12
TriState (
Type ( DIRECTION TRI_STATE )
Position ( 422 340 128 64 )
Graphic ( 3dtsDMUreverser.ACE )
NumFrames ( 8 2 4 )
Style ( NONE )
MouseControl ( 1 )
Orientation ( 1 )
DirIncrease ( 1 )
4) We will need to add a few things to this, it's 6 simple lines of code, they will be coloured blue for your conveniance in locating them within the file.
5) Above the 'EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcM_green )' you will need to add 6 lines of code.
These will be the 'Position ( -1 3.5 7 )' and 'Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )' of which there are three of each located just below the 'CabViewWindowFile' line.
CabViewType ( 2 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUfront1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndFrn.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUleft1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndLft.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -57.85 0 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUright1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndRgt.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )
Add these lines just above the 'EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcM_green )', you may wish to leave a space above and below where you are adding these lines so that you can read the file more easily.
So it should look like this.
Code:
SIMISA@@@@@@@@@@JINX0h0t______
Tr_CabViewFile (
CabViewType ( 2 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUfront1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndFrn.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUleft1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndLft.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -57.85 0 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUright1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndRgt.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -57.85 0 )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )
EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcM_green )
So that's those lines added in, but we still need to edit the file some more, this is where you need a few maths skills to ensure things dont go wrong! That or a calculator.
6) On the 'Position' line you have three seperate numbers, I have coloured these Red, Green and Blue. You have the same on the 'Direction' line, once again coloured Red, Green and Blue.
Position (
-1 3.5 7 )
On the 'Position' line you will need to edit the
RED and
BLUE numbers, what you need to do here, is reverse them. By this I mean if the
RED NUMBER IS -1 then you change it to equal
1, you reverse it from negative, to positive. You do the same for the
BLUE NUMBER, however, the
BLUE NUMBER is a positive number already,
7, so we need to change this from positive to negative by adding a minus sign infront of it, so it looks like this.
-7.
On the position line, you must leave the 'GREEN' number alone.
Your new 'Position' line should look something like this.
Position (
1 3.5 -7 )
7) Now we will move onto the direction line. You have three numbers on the 'Direction' line, once again coloured Red, Green and Blue.
Direction (
15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
On this line you leave the
RED and
BLUE entrys alone, do not edit these. Instead, we edit the
GREEN entry, this is a very simple edit, all we need do, is add 150 to the number already there. So for example if the number is '10', we add '180' to it, and we have '190', if the number is '-75', we add '150' to it, and we get '-255'.
The number in this line is
'9.03', so all we need do, is add 180 to this number.
Your new line of code should look something like this.
Direction (
15.04 189.03 -0.28 )
8) Now repeat this steps 6 and 7 for the other four lines of code underneath.
Your finished line of code should look something like this.
Code:
Tr_CabViewFile (
CabViewType ( 2 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUfront1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndFrn.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 15.04 9.03 -0.28 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUleft1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndLft.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -57.85 0 )
CabViewFile ( 3DTS_DMUright1024.ace )
CabViewWindow ( 0 0 640 480 )
CabViewWindowFile ( ../../KIHA31/CABVIEW/AcWndRgt.ace )
Position ( -1 3.5 7 )
Direction ( 9.05 54.03 0 )
[COLOR=blue] Position ( 1 3.5 -7 )
Direction ( 15.04 189.03 -0.28 )
Position ( 1 3.5 -7 )
Direction ( -2.2 -237.85 0 )
Position ( 1 3.5 -7 )
Direction ( 9.05 234.03 0 )[/COLOR]
EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcM_green )
Now, there is one final thing we need to do, if you are running a consist with more than one driving position, you will need to go into the consist file and edit a line of data. This is another very simple thing to do.
1) Navigate your way back to the \Microsoft Games\Train Simulator\TRAINS folder.
2) Open up the \CONSISTS folder
3) Search for the appropriate consist you wish to edit, the one I have chosen is the '3dts_green101_aber.CON' file. Open this in notepad.
4) You should have a very small area of code, similar to what is shown below.
Code:
SIMISA@@@@@@@@@@JINX0D0t______
Train (
TrainCfg ( 3DTS_GREEN101_ABER
Serial ( 2 )
MaxVelocity ( 31.29280 0.93333 )
NextWagonUID ( 2 )
Durability ( 1.00000 )
Engine (
UiD ( 0 )
EngineData ( 3dts_101dtlcP_green 3DTS_101_GREEN )
)
Engine (
UiD ( 1 )
EngineData ( 3dts_101dmbs_green 3DTS_101_GREEN )
)
)
)
5) You will need to edit the 'NextWagonUID ( # )' entry, all you need do is add 100, so if it says '2' then you edit it to '102', if it says 50, then you edit it to '150', if it says '-7', you edit it to '-107', simple, isnt it.
The line which you must edit is highlighted in blue
MaxVelocity ( 31.29280 0.93333 )
NextWagonUID ( 2 )
Durability ( 1.00000 )
Once you have change it, it should look something similar to what is shown below.
MaxVelocity ( 31.29280 0.93333 )
NextWagonUID ( 102 )
Durability ( 1.00000 )
And that is all there is to it.
If you have any questions or problems feel free to drop me a Private Message.
Jamie.
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