CCG/Turntable

Latest revision as of 14:55, 8 June 2011

[edit] KIND: TURNTABLE

[edit] Description

A turntable asset for moving or rotating traincars, specifying the static and moving part of the turntable. Animated rotation (turntable) and lateral translation (transfer table) assets are supported.

[edit] Container Structure

A well formed turntable kind has the container structure you can see in the examples.

See Chapter 7 for an example asset of this kind.

A TYPICAL ASSET OF THIS KIND MAY HAVE THE FOLLOWING TAGS:

turntable
  
kuid                   kuid
trainz-build           data
category-class         data
category-region        data
category-era           data
username               data
kind                   data
snapmode               data
dighole                data
light                  data
angle                  data
looping                data
  
mesh-table
default
mesh                   file
auto-create            data
turntable
mesh                   file
auto-create            data
attached-track
  
track_turntable
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
   
track0_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
  
track1_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
  
track2_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
  
track3_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
  
track4_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
 
     up to
   
track10_base
track                  kuid
useadjoiningtracktype  data
vertices
0                      data
1                      data
  
kuid-table
0                      kuid
  
thumbnails
0
image                  file
width                  data
height                 data

[edit] 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 "BR” - Railway (scenery non-functional). See the "Building and Structures" 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. This will be the name that appears in the surveyor menu.

kind

Must be "turntable".

[edit] Additional Tags

angle

Specifies the angles at which the turntable stops. Not used if the turntable is set up as animation. frame-rate Generally make this 30 (frames per second)

keyframes

Specifies where on the animation the turntable is to stop.

looping

Specifies that the turntable can go all the way around, rather than stopping at a certain point.

snapmode

Specifies the alignment of the turntable to the surveyor grid. 1 = origin snaps to grid intersections (use for removing even dighole values), 2 = origin snaps to the center of a grid square (use for odd dighole values).

dighole

Specifies the number of grid segments (length, width) to be removed from the surveyor grid to accommodate the turntable pit.

light

Sets lighting to be used for object to be ambient or directional. 0 sets ambient lighting and object is lit by general light value (uniform colouring), 1 sets directional light which is affected by the position of the sun (shows shadows on the object surfaces). Obsolete in TS2009 onwards??

[edit] Notes

ANIMATED TURNTABLES

Turntables can be set up with creator defined animation.

Keyframes can be specified as the stopping points much like `angles' above. Use attached-tracks at keyframe points. A TRS2004 test asset is available for download, it does have mesh files but is not complete with all scripts required to fully function - for information only: http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/downloads/contentcreation/TransporterTestAsset.zip

Also the example in Chapter 7 and the additional notes on modelling on Page 381.

[edit] THIS KIND HAS THE FOLLOWING:

CONTAINERS

Mesh Table, queues Container, Smoke Container, Soundscript Container, Attached Track Container, Attached Trigger Container, 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.

TAGS

kuid, trainz-build, category-class, category-region, category-era, username, kind, snapmode, alias, angle, author, autoname, category-keyword, class, contact-email, contact-website, description, description-cn, description-cz, description-de, description-es, description-fr, description-it, description-pl, description-nl, description-ru, dighole, floating, frame-rate, height-range, icon-texture, icon0, icon1, icon2, icon3, keyframes, license, light, looping, nightmode, organisation, preview-mesh-kuid, preview-scale, rgb, rollstep, rotate, rotate-yz-range, rotstep, script, snapgrid, surveyor-name-label, surveyor-only, username-cn, username-cz, username-de, username-es, username-fr, username-it, username-nl, username-pl, username-ru.

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