I was just wondering if there was any official explanation for some of the new stock still showing auto lettering and numbering when used with Livery Designer. I notice the stock from Cane Creek and West Cornwall suffers from this and wondered if this was a bug to be fixed or if it had been done intentionally?
I think currently it's just up to how the given dev assigned to that certain rolling stock prefers it. So some rolling stock have auto numbering in livery designer, while others, like the MBTA trains, do not. Preferrably there should be given an option to set whether a given livery should have auto-numbering (if you're just making a general one) or have a specifing running number, so one could make a certain livery spawn only on a certain train. Maybe in Livery Designer 2.0, I hope.
Personally I prefer it that way, all the default markings on units make it much easier to create realistic liveries. Although I do see where it becomes an issue with specific numbered units, but hopefully this is the sort of thing we get more control over in LD 2.0.
Would be nice to be able to use the in-game numbering system, but allocate the size, position and style, for when you do things like this...
I think there are upsides and dowsides for both systems, personally I've noticed that more recent trains tend to have some detailing left in the livery designer (numbering, and the orange strip in british trains for example), I personally prefer it that way since I almost exclusively recreate real world liveries, what I would really like actually is if all the technical detailing on the underframe remained printed on German trains, it would make things like this much more accurate, or take massively less time and effort to do. The 143 xxx writing on the front should be removed but I'd really love if I didn't have to recreate the little writings and symbols on the underframe. Maybe it's the creator's curse, but I always notice those details missing when I encounter one of these in the wild in BRD.
The problem with it is that different liveries- most especially in the US- put the road numbers in different places, sizes, colors and typefaces. So repainting a UP as a Rio Grande or Great Northern means having numbers that are simply and blatantly wrong. What LD 2.0 needs to have is the same randomized-number text box the devs have, which one can place, size and assign fonts to as one desires.
