The Art Icon

The Art Icon is only used in kind Traincar, It is a 128x64 32 bit tga file name_art_icon.tga. It is used in at lest 5 places in Trainz and a lot of content makers ether do not make one or make it wrong. Back in Trainz 1 it was used to make up your train and every one made them. You find them in the Railyard list, in Driver in the driver list(under the driver's head shot), and a lot of the pop-up menus. If it is not made a black box is used, I see a lot of them and some that are just the thumbnail, also not right.

The Art Icon should be a side shot of the car or loco on a track with a black background that has a alpha mask that will knockout the background.

To do this I made a map with the one track going North-South and a white ground color with one side of the map having a large hill, this is basically a stdio product table. This is a one baseboard map and one Session with just one loco at the end and my new car or loco placed about 400' down the track, this way I can just edit the Session to replace the "old" with the "new". Run the Session, set the camera and "Sun" (my light) and hit Prt Scr.

This is the map.

 

And this is how the shot looks.

 

The Art Icon