(Discussion) MSTS - 2 - Lomo Guide???

[Matloughe]

Hi there,

I expect that this has already been covered by several people already but recently i have been working with the MSTS2Lomo converter and i have stumbled across the whole .dat files being too big for Lomo to handle.

I have trawled for information on how to do this properly but still have no idea as to what it is i am doing wrong. I have read that Illegal Alien had a guide for it but right now it is offline.

I will state what i am using for the botched conversions, lol.

Vehicle Creator 0.07Alpha
Palette Express
BMP - PNG

btw the size of the DAT's i have been getting is around the 12 Mb mark, jes for some useless info. lol.

[marcf]

Vehicle creator 0.08 has been released, i can send it to you if you want,

ive been using Wally (Half life texture editor) to convert from BMP to PNG and apply the palette (which i made in irfanview, copying from the image on the loco wiki)

the simple trains i have converted are ~ 200kb
another one with 3 parts is about 550kb

DATs being 12mb doesnt sound right, what is the filesize of the PNGs before you save as a DAT

[Matloughe]

the size of the PNG's on their own is only 384 kb's, so how that can go up to 12 MB i have no idea... lol.

I have honestly tried everything i can think of but still nothing turns up for me jus Lomo crashes.

Any help would really be appriciated.

[marcf]

ok, what is the size of the PNGs in pixels, mine are 160x160, between 1 and 3 kb

and the size of the BMP's from MSTS 2 loco?
mine are 160x160 and all 75kb

[Matloughe]

right, sorry, lol.

The BMP's come out at 240 x 240 as VC churns them out, and are 168 kb's

When converted to PNG's they are still 240 x 240 but are 2.34 kb's

[Matloughe]

thanks for your help man, you really enlightned me. Cheers, now i can convert stuff i jes need to work on it some more, unless we all want flying trains... lol.