Attachment points on scenery items

[Marky7890]

Evening all,

I've ran into a problem with building my Royal Albert Bridge model. I have the main mesh as scenery item, which I would like the track and girder bridge (spline) to attach to. However I am not seeing any attachment points show up in game.


Here is my config file

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kuid                                    <kuid:179051:102319>
kind                                    "buildable"
light                                   1
category-class                          "BB"
category-region                         "UK"
trainz-build                            "3.5"
height-range                            -20,20

mesh-table
{
  default
  {
    mesh                                "bridge.im"
    auto-create                         1
  }
}

attached-track
{
  track0
  {
    track                               <kuid:149987:38000>
    useadjoiningtracktype               1
    
    vertices
    {
      0                                 "a.railtrack01"
      1                                 "a.railtrack02"
    }
  }
  
  girder0
  {
    track                               <kuid:149987:37000>
    useadjoiningtracktype               0
    
    vertices
    {
      0                                 "a.girder01"
      1                                 "a.girder02"
    }
  }
}
username                                "Royal Albert Bridge New"
description                             "Royal Albert Bridge"
author                                  "Marky7890"
organisation                            "British Trainz"
contact-email                           "mark@british-trainz.co.uk"
contact-website                         "http://british-trainz.co.uk"

thumbnails
{
  0
  {
    image                               "preview.jpg"
    width                               240
    height                              180
  }
}

kuid-table
{
  fma_invisible_spline                  <kuid:149987:37000>
  fma_invisible_track                   <kuid:149987:38000>
}

a.railtrack01 and a.railtrack02 are set at the deck level, a.girder01 and a.girder02 are set at ground level as both the bridge and girder are built at ground level.

Thanks,
Mark

[pacerguy]

try removing height-range -20,20
I made some road splines and changing that had results like that... minus made it a tunnel I think? and plus a bridge!

[Marky7890]

Not made any difference unfortunately.

[Marky7890]

Got it working now.

[greeni]

How did you sort it Mark.

[Marky7890]

Deleted it from the map then readded it, reloading the route wasn't updating it for some reason.

[james73]

I had the same issue with the 4-track City Union Bridge I made last week. I got the model the way I wanted it to look, and it looked fine in Surveyor, so then I added track attachment points to the mesh. But they simply would not appear in Surveyor UNTIL I added a new version of the bridge into the map. Most annoying.

[james73]

I've got a new asset with this problem.

I'm creating a new covered footbridge set, with fixed staircases at each side and the middle. I want the bridge deck to be a spline, and snap to the appropriate position on the staircases. No problem, I've seen assets like this already in Trainz.

I've added attachment points (a.spline01 and a.spline02) in my mesh for the staircase and added an invisible road to the config file (<kuid2:1499871>). When I'm in Surveyor and switch to Spline mode, a white circle appears at the end of the staircase. So far so good.

BUT, when I try to connect the spline to it I get this "The track types may be incompatible" error as shown.




Do I NEED the spline/decks to attach to the staircases? No, see below. But it would be nice to have the option!



Are KUID numbers important in this? I've made the staircase <kuid2:695181> and the spline <kuid2:695181>. Any help greatly appreciated.


Config file for the Staircase:

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kuid					<kuid2:69518:28223:1>
kind                                    "buildable"
light                                   1
nightmode                               "home"
username                                "FB06 Single Stairs"
description                             "..."
category-era                            "1910s;1920s;1930s;1940s;1950s;1960s;1970s;1980s:1990s:2000s:2010s"
category-class                          "BR"
category-keyword                        "..."
category-region                         "..."
trainz-build                            3.5
height-range                            -100,100


mesh-table
{
  default
  {
    mesh                                "mesh.im"
    auto-create                         1
  }
}

thumbnails
{
  0
  {
    image                               "$screenshot$.jpg"
    width                               240
    height                              180
  }
}

attached-track
{
  girder0
  {
    track                               <kuid2:149987:37000:1>
    useadjoiningtracktype               0
    vertices
    {
      0                                 "a.spline01"
      1                                 "a.spline02"
    }
  }
}

kuid-table
{
  0                                     <kuid2:149987:37000:1>
}

obsolete-table
{
}
author                                  "..."
organisation                            "..."
contact-email                           "..."
contact-website                         "..."
license                                 "..."

[Nexusdj]

I think category class needs to be changed to "BB" to match buildable ?

BR is scenery (non functional)

http://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/inde ... STRUCTURES

[james73]

Still the same error when trying to join them. The spline is category-class "SS".

One other thing is the spline is not at ground level, it's level with the top of the staircase, and I put the attachment point on the staircase at ground level.

[Marky7890]

Height shouldn't matter I don't think. My Royal Albert Bridge girders are 30m above the ground so they connect with the bridge asset itself.

Mark

[james73]

Tried it in TRS12 and it still doesn't snap to the stairs, although there is no error message displayed.

[SnakeLight64]

I'm going to take a wild guess, I suspect the error is to do with:

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useadjoiningtracktype               0

Try and change it to 1, I could be completely wrong but it's worth a shot!

What you are creating is how I'm going to be doing soon with my LU platform fences, so would be good to find a solution.

R

[james73]

Got this sorted with a suggestion on the Trainz forum. The Spline config had:
isroad 0

Changing it to:
isroad 1 (and adding carrate 0)

seemed to solve the problem. It works, so now to complete the set, then do some reskins.

[SnakeLight64]

Glad you got to the bottom of it