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Railfan727Charter Member · 902 postsJan 25, 2004 4:27 PM

Here's my repaint of Dick Cowen's new SD50/SD60 as Conrail 6842. Previous Topic | Next Topic – image 1 Unfortunately, I CANNOT get rid of that pesky roof beacon!!!! Believe me, I tried. I modified the alpha channel as instructed in order to remove it, and when I view the texture in TGATool2, the part of the image mapped to the beacon shows a black alpha channel as it should in order for the beacon to be removed. The only other way I can think of to get rid of it is to hack the shape file itself. Does anybody know how to do this?

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RE: Conrail SD60, Railfan727, Jan-25-04, 11:29 AM, (1) RE: Conrail SD60, NS4Life, Jan-25-04, 12:01 PM, (2) RE: Conrail SD60, Railfan727, Jan-25-04, 12:09 PM, (3) RE: Conrail SD60, ATF1224, Jan-25-04, 12:11 PM, (4) RE: Conrail SD60, sooner, Jan-25-04, 01:58 PM, (5) RE: Conrail SD60, stryder47, Jan-26-04, 01:04 AM, (6) RE: Conrail SD60, CRSD40, Jan-26-04, 03:55 PM, (7) RE: Conrail SD60, ATF1224, Jan-26-04, 04:34 PM, (8) RE: Conrail SD60, sooner, Jan-26-04, 08:15 PM, (9) RE: Conrail SD60, concaddy, Jan-27-04, 05:04 AM, (10) RE: Conrail SD60, ace6879, Jan-27-04, 03:52 PM, (11) RE: Conrail SD60, concaddy, Jan-27-04, 09:05 PM, (12) RE: Conrail SD60, stryder47, Jan-27-04, 11:43 PM, (13)

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Railfan727Charter Member · 902 postsJan 25, 2004 4:29 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Sorry for the multiple posts... when I posted the message, I got an error saying that the server didn't receive the information. Apparently it did anyway.

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NS4LifeMember since Apr-8-03 · 447 postsJan 25, 2004 5:01 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Looks very nice. Do you plan on doing any other repaints with the SD50/SD60? If I may suggest an NS repaint? I tryed my hand at it last night, but it didn't turn out right. NS4Life
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Railfan727Charter Member · 902 postsJan 25, 2004 5:09 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Gotta figure out how to nix that daggone beacon first...

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ATF1224Member since Apr-9-03 · 1394 postsJan 25, 2004 5:11 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Very Nice. For Some Reason my TGAtool refuses to export 1024 ace files. I was going to do an NS Sd60, but since it won't export I can't do anything with it.

Jake Mensel
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soonerMember since Jul-2-02 · 932 postsJan 25, 2004 6:58 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Try this. Install MakeAceWIN, if you haven't already. After you edit the .ace suing TGATTool2, click "save as," and assign a file name with a .tga suffix and save the file as a .tga. Exit TGATool2, open MakeAceWIN and use it to convert the .tga back to an .ace file.

bud

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stryder47Member since Jan-1-04 · 145 postsJan 26, 2004 6:04 AM

RE: Conrail SD60

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That's the way I had to do it for those size files too. Anyway, I always save whatever I am doing to a tga file first from within tgatool2, just in case. And just in case has saved my butt a lot of times.RangerWestern Maryland Railroad
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CRSD40Charter Member · 1059 postsJan 26, 2004 8:55 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Great job Bruce, looking forward to running it.----------------------------- Previous Topic | Next Topic – image 7

Kyle Norek, Milepost 76 on the NS Buffalo Line
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ATF1224Member since Apr-9-03 · 1394 postsJan 26, 2004 9:34 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

Thanks Guys. I did in fact get it to work that way and by checking the "Use Updated Makeace" box.

Jake Mensel
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soonerMember since Jul-2-02 · 932 postsJan 27, 2004 1:15 AM

RE: Conrail SD60

Sure thing. And my guess is "using" TGATool2 turned out better than "suing" TGATool2! Appreciations to Gray Horninger (GaryH2), who tipped me to this.

bud

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concaddyCharter Member · 516 postsJan 27, 2004 10:04 AM

RE: Conrail SD60

Well guys. I just got all my W2s to get my taxes done. So plan on some stuff from me in the near future as well....just gotta finish that dang puter......

John Rosh
TKW Public Relations
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ace6879Charter Member · 1970 postsJan 27, 2004 8:52 PM

RE: Conrail SD60

think GP10's......

Kelley D. Ellison
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concaddyCharter Member · 516 postsJan 28, 2004 2:05 AM

RE: Conrail SD60

depends.....

John Rosh
TKW Public Relations
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stryder47Member since Jan-1-04 · 145 postsJan 28, 2004 4:43 AM

RE: Conrail SD60

Hiya John, will take whatever you make buddy. I know it will be good. And an SD50 or 60 would be fine. When you get time, give me a PM and your email address. I lost all of my email addresses while I was out sick. Would like to correspond again and see how things are going for you now. Have moved into the city of Bristol now, so don't live in the same place you visited me. They sold the place on us. A real shame as this place is way too small for us all and I hate being in the city, but all we could find on short notice. The only good thing is I am close to the NS rail line and can hear them whistle every night. Also a small NS yard about a quarter mile down the road. If we ever have a good day (and I am beginning to doubt it) I will take some pics and post them.Anyway John, PM me so I can email you, buddy. Missed you while I was gone from here.Ranger (aka Tim, aka zhivago47)Western Maryland Railroad
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