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==KIND: PANTOGRAPH==

===Description===
The animated mechanisms on the roof of electric locomotives that conduct electricity from the catenary's (wires) above. It is referenced by the pantograph tag in a traincar config file.


===Container Structure===
A well formed pantograph kind has the following container structure:

[[Image:CCG_pantograph_dir.jpg]]

See Chapter 7 for an example asset of this kind.


A TYPICAL ASSET OF THIS KIND MAY HAVE THE FOLLOWING TAGS:
 <font color="red">kind                    ''"pantograph"''</font>
 kuid                    ''kuid''
 trainz-build            ''data''
 category-class          ''data''
 category-region         ''data''
 category-era            ''data''
 username                ''data''
 <font color="red">mesh-table</font>
 <font color="green">default</font>
 mesh                    ''file''
 auto-create             ''data''
 anim                    ''file''
 <font color="red">thumbnails</font>
 <font color="green">0</font>
 image                   ''file''
 width                   ''data''
 height                  ''data''


===TAGS AND CONTAINERS===
The following tags are further defined in Chapter 5:

;kuid
:Generated automatically by [[Content Manager]].

;trainz-build
:Automatically set to 2.9 for 2009 assets.

;category-class
:Should be "ZP" - Pantographs. See the "Train Parts" section of [[Category Class]].

;category-region
:See [[Category Region]] for a list of valid category-region values.

;category-era
:See [[Category Era]] for a list of valid category-era values.

;username
:Asset username. Though this asset doesn't appear in the Surveyor menu, the username is used to identify the asset in the "Content Manager" and "Content Creator Plus" programs.

;kind
:Must be "pantograph".

;mesh-table
:Default - Contains the default mesh. Auto-create should be set to true in order to make the mesh visible. Be sure to reference the anim.kin in here also for the animation to work.

;anim
:The "anim.kin" animation file for the pantograph animation.

===THIS KIND SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING:===

;CONTAINERS
:String Table, Chinese String Table, Czech String Table, Dutch String Table, French String Table, German String Table, Italian String Table, Polish String Table, Russian String Table, Spanish String Table, KUID Table, Obsolete Table, Thumbnails, Privileges, Extensions, Mesh Table.

;TAGS
:kuid, trainz-build, category-class, category-region, category-era, username, kind, alias, author, category-keyword, contact-email, contact-website, description, description-cn, description-cz, description-de, description-es, description-fr, description-it, description-pl, description-nl, description-ru, icon0, icon1, icon2, icon3, license, organisation, preview-mesh-kuid, preview-scale, username-cn, username-cz, username-de, username-es, username-fr, username-it, username-nl, username-pl,username-ru.



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