Repositioning FreightAnim Loads

[tanglingwolf]

Hi,
I started playing around with manually adding loads to cars through the .wag files with FreightAnim tags. Honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing beyond that, but, I was able to throw together 15 loaded versions for Erick Cantu's us2bnsfcar replacement out of some other FL downloaded cars. (They came out REALLY well and fired right up in ORTS.) How can I adjust the physical orientation of some other .s files? I would like to make a whole batch of loads for a bunch of different bulkhead flatcars, but the loads aren't exactly positioned right, vertically. Any help is greatly appreciated, as I may upload these if I can get them right.

Thanks,
Paul

[slipperman]

Hi Paul,
Have you seen this tutorial?
https://msts.steam4me.net/tutorials/freight_anim.html

Cheers,
Ged

[tanglingwolf]

Thanks a lot! I hadn't actually seen that yet. I'll give it try and hope everything cooperates.

[anderson martins]

Hi,
I started playing around with manually adding loads to cars through the .wag files with FreightAnim tags. Honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing beyond that, but, I was able to throw together 15 loaded versions for Erick Cantu's us2bnsfcar replacement out of some other FL downloaded cars. (They came out REALLY well and fired right up in ORTS.) How can I adjust the physical orientation of some other .s files? I would like to make a whole batch of loads for a bunch of different bulkhead flatcars, but the loads aren't exactly positioned right, vertically. Any help is greatly appreciated, as I may upload these if I can get them right.

Thanks,
Paul

consider:
SHAPER VIEW - to see the location of the right position (X-Y-Z)
SFM 4 or 5 - to adjust the positions found in the SHAPER VIEW, to be inserted in the FA, within the .ENG

[tanglingwolf]

Thanks Anderson, I used SFM 2.5 and Shape Viewer 2.2 for pretty much the same technique. I was surprised at how easily everything just plugged right in for once.

[anderson martins]

Thanks Anderson, I used SFM 2.5 and Shape Viewer 2.2 for pretty much the same technique. I was surprised at how easily everything just plugged right in for once.

be sure to show the results.
it’s usually quite different from the usual thing, what we do

[tanglingwolf]

us2bnsfcar_Conc_Pipes.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Lumber.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Pig_Iron_1.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Pipes_1.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Pipes_1b.jpg

[tanglingwolf]

us2bnsfcar_Pipes_2.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Pipes_2b.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Pipes_3.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Rail_Load.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Scrap _2.jpg

[tanglingwolf]

us2bnsfcar_Scrap _3.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Scrap _4.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Steel.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Steel_b.jpg
us2bnsfcar_Wheel_Sets.jpg

[anderson martins]

Very good, tanglinwolf .

I, too, had satisfactory results.
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