Coal crane

Some time ago I had a problem with the animation of the coalcrane for Pilton yard on the L&B. At the end of its animation it would suddenly jump to the out position.



Geoff Potter had a similar problem with his water column and has managed to resolve the issue. Essentially, you need two animations, one with an IA file ending in _activate and one ending in _deactivate and in the blueprint you need two animation fields, one with an ID of activate and one with an ID of deactivate.

I applied this to my model and hey presto, it works. Many thanks to Geoff.

Container Transfer Point

The RMG (rail mounted gantry) is finished, after resolving the problems mentioned in my previous post.

In addition to the static version I also created an animated one, plus two transfer point versions.



I would like to take this opportunity of thanking Dick Ham. whose help was important in realising the release of the transfer variants.

Transfer Point Problems

I have struggled for several days with a problem transfer point container crane and have just resolved the issue and want to record the details for the benefit of others.

When I ran the animation to unload a container from a wagon the system would crash with a SBHH (something bad has happened) report. I eventually realised that my animation was finishing before the container disappeared and wondered if this was an issue.

I lenghtened the animation time by a couple of seconds and this allowed the container to disappear first and the SBHH no longer occurred. Problem solved and another lesson learned.