[Shay 5]

I've taken a brake from the shay and am Moved on to the "Spider". I got it animated and exported. It animates fine in S viewer, but in ORTS, One of the wheel sets doesn't turn. The rest move as they should. What could be causing this?

[thegrindre]

Since there's no file to look through or pic to see or even know what you're doing, it's just a guess that you named something wrong or have it in the wrong folder..
We can't read your mind or your PC... :clapping:

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[captain_bazza]

You may have incorrectly named a wheel part.

Cheers Bazza

[Shay 5]

It has only two wheel sets, and only the rear one doesn't work. The engine flywheels and the front wheel set spin as they should. I parented the flywheels to the "MAIN" object, and the wheel sets, I parented to the brake rigging named "Bogie". I don't know if that helps. I think each of the wheel sets are named "Wheels" and "Wheels1". I have to admit, it sure is fun to zip around on this thing. :thumbup3:

[captain_bazza]

There is no wheels, only wheels1 ~ wheels5 - these are parts requiring animating.

Normal bogie wheelsets are named:
bogie1 \--------------\--------------\
--------wheels11 wheels12 wheels13

bogie2 \-----------------\------------\
--------wheels21 wheels22 wheels23

These wheelsets, along with the bogies are auto animated by the sim.

Cheers Bazza

[captain_bazza]

With a rail vehicle, or wagon, that has two wheelsets, such as the little jigger, you need to make a fake bogie and attach wheels11 and wheels12 to it respectively, with the bogie a sub-object of the main part.

The fake bogie is setup as per the usual protocol. Any movement of the 'fake' boge and attached wheelsets is not enough to be readily apparent.

This workaround is required in order for the vehicle/wagon to track correctly around curves and through switches. Another example would be a four wheeled, or six wheeled tender.

Cheers Bazza

[thegrindre]

I set my car up like this.
It's a diesel, the model A Ford, RGS1.



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[Shay 5]

I kinda did I think. Forgot about this feature. Thanks Rick. Here is the hierarchy for the speeder.

[thegrindre]

Nope, that shouldn't work, Jeff. :lol: Change it out to something more like mine. You don't need bogies on that thing. :lol:
If you do want bogies, you'll need two. One for each wheelset. A front and a rear.

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[James Ross]

 Shay 5, on 05 September 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

I think each of the wheel sets are named "Wheels" and "Wheels1".

Open Rails only works if the parts are named WHEELSn or WHEELSmn. The former is for when there is no bogie and the latter is when there is a bogie (m is the bogie number).