James' Reusable US Assets

This mod contains several reusable assets and scripting utilities that are used across some of my US mods. Anyone is free to use these in their own mods, if you have any questions about how to implement some of these please shoot me a DM on Discord at trainguy#9512.

Included:

• "Motion Control" 36-inch 100-ton trucks
• EMD Blomberg "B" locomotive trucks, in black and silver materials
• Generic freight car coupler
• Generic freight car coupler with extended drawbar
• Railcar Transformater utility function library

Note on the couplers

When using this coupler, make sure the mesh's X position matches the X extent of the model, this ensures the car looks correct when coupled to other cars.

Railcar Transformater Utility Library

Also included in this is a function library for achieving certain effects on rail vehicles through transformaters. All effects can be toggled on and off in the configuration settings for this mod, which will affect all mods that reference these functions. I reccomend checking out my Gunderson 6269 Boxcar asset for an example on how to use these in your own mods if you wish. Disclaimer: Since the game is still so new, there's a chance I could deprecate some of these functions and add new ones as I learn more about the new modding API.

Included functions

• updateFnSwaying - Plays the tilt animation on the model immitating a subtle railcar swing. This was built for the shared train tilt .ani file. See implementation in the 6269 boxcar mod. I reccomend making sure the car tilts at the same horizontal axis the coupler is on for the best look.
• updateFnRandomGrunge - Randomly assigns a level of grunge to the model's age attribute.

Credits

• NeighborKid - The swaying function in this mod is based off NeighborKid's USRA Mikado swaying