KIND Traincar
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KIND Traincar provides the basis for all individual train Vehicles, for example, a single item of the locomotive, a single item of rollingstock, or a single tender.
This asset type inherits all trackside positioning and mesh display characteristics, and adds Vehicle-specific functionality such as physics and control mechanisms.
KIND Hierarchy
Parent Classes
Child Classes
- none.
Supported Tags
Each traincar asset supports the following tags. Each tag is shown here with its default value.
kind "traincar" cabinsway 1.0 company "QueenslandRail" ditch_color 0,0,0 low_beam_value 2,2,2 high_beam_value 1,1,1 flash_scale 1 engine 0 real-engine 1 enginespec (KUID) enginesound (KUID) fonts 1 hornsound (KUID) cabin_muffle 0.4 light_color 0,0,0 mass 37000 max-coupler-gap 0.08 origin "AU" pantograph (KUID) smoke_shade 0.09 smoke_random 2.9 smoke_slowlife 3 smoke_fastlife 0 smoke_height 0.8 smoke_fastspeed 10 tender 0 use-coupler-sounds 1 fonts-path "" bogeys { } paintshed-template-used (KUID) paintshed-skin-used (KUID) product-id "" product-version ? product-type "" disable-extra-track-sounds 0 max-tractive-effort 0
cabinsway
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Controls the amount of 'sway' the interior view has as the vehicle takes corners. A bigger number will result in more sway.
company
- Type: English Text String
- Desc: Text string to indicate which railway company or organisation this vehicle is in service with as represented.
ditch_color
- Type: Color(RGB)
- Desc: Color of ditch lights (values are integer between 0 and 255, comma separated for red, green, and blue).
low_beam_value
- Type: Decimal array
- Desc: Comma separated sequence of decimal values - used to configure the brightness of the lights when in low beam mode. First number applies to first headlight point, and so on. Values are divisors - e.g. a value of 2 means half brightness.
high_beam_value
- Type: Decimal array
- Desc: Comma separated sequence of decimal values - used to configure the brightness of the lights when in high beam mode. First number applies to first headlight point, and so on. Values are divisors - e.g. a value of 2 means half brightness.
flash_scale
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Sets the speed that the ditch lights flash at.
engine
- Type: Boolean
- Desc: If 1, vehicle is a locomotive, if 0, vehicle is an unpowered traincar. Locomotives are expected to have cab interiors, hornsounds, enginesounds, and so on.
real-engine
- Type: Boolean
- Desc: This will enable an unpowered vehicle to have an audible horn and visible headlights when set to 0. This is useful for cab cars, driving trailers, and unpowered end cars of multiple units.
enginespec
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Enginespec Asset to use with this locomotive. Defines locomotive performance characteristics.
enginesound
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Enginesound Asset to use with this locomotive.
fonts
- Type: Integer
- Desc: Number of running-number fonts to use on this locomotive.
hornsound
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Hornsound Asset to play when locos horn is blown.
cabin_muffle
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Amount that the enginesound volume should be reduced to when in-cab. Default of 0.4 is 40% volume, intended to represent a fully enclosed and noise deadened cab. Note: Steam locos have a different default. They default to 1.0 - no muffling at all. (Steam loco cabs are very frequently not fully enclosed, let alone fitted with noise deadening material.)
light_color
- Type: Color(RGB)
- Desc: Color of headlight (values are integer between 0 and 255, comma separated for red, green, and blue).
mass
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Mass of the vehicle in Kilograms when empty - i.e. the tare weight, not the gross weight. The mass of any products loaded into queues will be added to this by the game.
max-coupler-gap
- Type: decimal
- Desc: Specifies the amount of permissible coupler slack on this vehicle in Metres. Note: The observable slack between any two vehicles will be the average of the values for each vehicle. Cannot be zero.
origin
- Type: Text
- Desc: Obsolete
pantograph
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Pantograph Asset to attach to pantograph attachment points.
smoke_shade
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Value in the range (0.0 .. 1.0) which controls the color (including Alpha - so 0.0 will be transparent, 0.1 a dark mist, 1.0 a thick white) of each smoke particle. The alpha value will decay to zero (transparent) over the life of the particle.
smoke_random
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Controls the amount of randomness introduced into the direction of new smoke particles. Larger numbers == more randomness.
smoke_slowlife
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Length of time (seconds) smoke particles will exist for when vehicle is moving 'slow'.
smoke_fastlife
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Length of time (seconds) smoke particles will exist for when vehicle is moving 'fast'.
smoke_height
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Additional speed for 'slow' smoke to make it drift higher from the traincar.
smoke_fastspeed
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Speed (m/s) at which traincar is considered to be moving 'fast'.
tender
- Type: Boolean
- Desc: Used by the AI to determine if it should take this vehicle with the loco when doing orders like 'run round'.
use-coupler-sounds
- Type: Boolean
- Desc: Enables or disables the coupler slack sounds for this specific vehicle.
fonts-path
- Type: Text
- Desc: Asset name to use when determining where running numbers are stored. Used in the same way 'asset-filename' used to be on v2.4 and earlier assets.
bogeys
- Type: Bogeys Container
- Desc: Specifies what bogies are attached where, and with what modifiers. Documented separately here.
paintshed-template-used
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Obsolete. Was KUID of paintshed template used to create this reskin - used by Paintshed to reload the reskin for further editing.
paintshed-skin-used
- Type: KUID
- Desc: Obsolete. Was KUID of paintshed skin used to create this reskin - used by Paintshed to reload the reskin for further editing.
product-id
- Type: Text String
- Desc: Obsolete. Was used by Paintshed to indicate that this asset was for use with paintshed.
product-version
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Obsolete. Was the version number of Paintshed that the model was intended to be used with.
product-type
- Type: Text String
- Desc: Obsolete. Was used with Paintshed, to mark out a traincar as being repaintable in paintshed, but not for placement in-game.
disable-extra-track-sounds
- Type: Boolean
- Desc: Disables extra track sounds for this vehicle. Useful for making drivable ships, aircraft, road vehicles, etc. - anything that should not make wheel-on-rail type sounds.
max-tractive-effort
- Type: Decimal
- Desc: Maximum tractive effort this vehicle can put into the track in Newtons. (Only used for Diesel and Electric locos - Steam locos use a different system defined in the enginespec.)
Example Config.txt
Sample config.txt file for a traincar asset, with the Standard Tags excluded for brevity:
kind "traincar" engine 1 mass 100000 max-tractive-effort 400000 max-coupler-gap 0.1 interior <kuid:523:666> enginespec <kuid:-1:42004221> enginesound <kuid:-1:42003000> hornsound <kuid:-1:42003101> pantograph <kuid:-1:101395> smoke_shade 0.3 smoke_random 2.5 smoke_slowlife 6 smoke_fastlife 0.8 smoke_height 1.7 smoke_fastspeed 1.6 fonts 2 fonts-path "traincar" mesh-table { default { mesh "traincar-body.im" auto-create 1 } shadow { mesh "shadow\traincar-shadow.im" } } bogeys { 0 { reversed 0 rotation-permitted 0 sideplay-permitted 0 bogey <KUID2:xxxxx:yyyyy:zzz> } 1 { reversed 0 bogey <KUID2:xxxxx:yyyyy:zzz> } 2 { reversed 0 sideplay-permitted 1 bogey <KUID2:xxxxx:yyyyy:zzz> } 3 { reversed 0 sideplay-permitted 1 bogey <KUID2:xxxxx:yyyyy:zzz> } } company "Company Name" description "Textual description of traincar in English"
Downloads
- Media:SD40-2.zip - The MAX source for the Auran TS2009 SD40-2 traincar. Distributed from the TrainzDev site for education purposes only. No license for the reproduction or redistribution of the included model or textures is granted.