Acela ACE file problems

[Horgy]

OK, im trying to reskin my Acela into eurostar colour scheme, but when I try and convert it into an ACE, it spits out an error when I run MSTS and load it. The original Acela Coach file is 171KB or summat and mine is 1,024KB. Why is that? they are identical!

Horgy

P.S - The sooner I get help, the sooner you get your eurostar ;-)

[HAC]

It would help if you could quote the exact error you're getting, that we could give troubleshooting a shot....
As far as the size difference, the files are not identical obce you skin them. The TGA and BMP files in "Samples" are pretty big.
As far as I can tell, the makeace that we were given does not do any comression when it packs, and most likely the texture maps that Kuju used in the production versions were a lot smaller than
the ones they gave us as samples..

hope this helps..
cheers
Harold

[Horgy]

OK, when I run MakeACE (both the one packaged with MSTS, and the version here @ TrainSim Downloads) it runs ok, but the eventual size concerns me, and evidently MSTS, because it crashes. I assume that because the textures are identical, the ACE files will be the same size. The original is 171KB, and the one compiled by Makeace is 1,029KB. Then when I run MSTS, and select the Acela, it crashes with the error "USacelacarssoft.ace is corrupt" or a similar error. Any thoughts?

Horgy