CCG/Pantograph

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:

See Chapter 7 for an example asset of this kind.

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

kind                    "pantograph"
kuid                    kuid
trainz-build            data
category-class          data
category-region         data
category-era            data
username                data
mesh-table
default
mesh                    file
auto-create             data
anim                    file
thumbnails
0
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.

anim

The "anim.kin" animation file for the pantograph animation. Refer to Page 380 for more details of pantographs.

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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