Broken Vehicle Assets

Article verified: September 2022 - TM:PE 11.7.0

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Finding broken assets

We've listed several known broken assets in the sections below, but if you want to check yourself see this Steam guide: Finding Broken & Bloated Workshop Subscriptions.

• The Loading Screen Mod has an option to Check assets for errors which is very useful for finding broken assets!
• To find bloated vehicle assets, which can reduce frame rate and cause lag, use the Mesh Info mod.

If you find additional broken assets, please edit this wiki page and add them to the relevant section.

Potentially game breaking

• 727-200 Freighter UPS - broken LOD aci followed by crash to dekstop

Vehicle LODs Turn White

It usually happens at night, when vehicle lights come on. This is caused by broken textures in the asset; the asset author will need to recreate their LOD.

• Retro Trains Pack - West Coast Freight
• Mercedes-Benz Vito - Posti
• Supermarket Delivery Trucks + Props No DLC Required v2

Vehicle LODs Turn Black

Troubleshooting guide: Shiny Black Vehicle LODs

This is caused by assets that have invalid texture sizes (their dimensions must be a power of two). The Loading Screen Mod has option to Check assets for errors which will tell you if you have any assets with this issue.

Thanks to thale5 for the diagnostic tools in Loading Screen Mod, and REV0 for using it to test loads of train assets.

• BR 187 - BLS/Wascosa (8Cars) - FIXED!
• Alstom Euroduplex - TGV Carmillon (and also variants with different numbers of cars) - Removed from Workshop
  • Solution: Unsubscribe asset
  • New versions of this train can be found in France Vehicles collection
• BR 187 - Railpool/ZACENS Oil Mixed (and also variants with different numbers of cars) - FIXED!
• DB BR101 EuroCity (SBB 12 Cars)
• Deutsche Bahn Intercity 2 (5Cars) - FIXED!
• DR 232 Demag Molten Iron (and also variants with different numbers of cars)
  • There might be working alternate versions in Ludmilla collection
• JR East series E231-500 (11 Cars)
• SBB Re 460 EuroCity (12 Cars)
• Small Boat - confirmed to cause issue
• Small Ship - derived from the 'Small Boat' asset above, so possibly has the same issue
• STADLER EURODUAL DIESEL MOD Passenger Train (Concept)
• Stadler KISS - Caltrain (4Cars) - REVO will update asset to fix (October 2019)
• Stadler KISS - Caltrain (6Cars) - REVO will update asset to fix (October 2019)
• Stadler KISS - Generic/Factory (5Cars) - REVO will update asset to fix (October 2019)
• Taurus Cargo - FIXED!
• Tobu 500 Series (3/6 Cars) "Revaty" - FIXED!
• TRAXX Cargo (MRCE)
• TRAXX Coil cargo (DB BR185)

October 2019: REV0 is currently updating all his train vehicle and prop assets to fix the LOD sizes.

Vehicle LODs Flashing:

Troubleshooting guide: Vehicle LODs are flashing

If you still want to use the vehicle, you could try an extreme option: Disable LODs!

• Royal Mail Van Transit
• Saab 900 Pack 3 Cars (Utoftfighter sadly don't have the source files anymore. Perhaps he will recreate them someday)
• We'll list more as we find them

Distorted LODs:

If you still want to use the vehicle, you could try an extreme option: Disable LODs!

• NS Mercedes Sprinter Ambulance
  • Working alternative: D3S Mercedes-Benz Sprinter NLAmbulance (W906) '2006

Bloated Assets:

To find bloated assets, which can reduce frame rate and cause lag, use the Mesh Info mod.

• Audi TT - huge LOD (1800 tris!)

Breaks vehicle spawning:

If you see Helicopters and trucks from wrong depots:

Asset authors: If your vehicle exhibits this bug, try reconstructing it and re-upload to workshop (thanks Ninjanoobslayer for the tip!)

• 2018 Red Rosenbauer Commander Pumper FIXED!

If vehicles stop spawning (Issue #317):

• Alfa Romeo 164
  • Asset id: 453021816 (no longer in workshop)
• NoMads Semi class F
  • Asset id: 450619803 (no longer in workshop)
  • Solution: Unsubscribe it
• Red Fishing Boat
  • Asset id: 1107521505 (no longer in workshop)
  • The boat is too fast, which seems to confuse the cargo ship AI. As a result, it blocks shipping lanes and somehow uses up all the available vehicle limit which in turn prevents other vehicles from spawning.
  • Solution: Use "Advanced Vehicle Options" mod to slow it down; if that doesn't work, unsubscribe it
• Blue Fishing Boat
  • Asset id: 1107517568 (no longer in workshop)
  • Same issue as the Red Fishing Boat above.
• Tugboat
  • Asset id: 1107513981 (no longer in workshop)
  • Same issue as the fishing boats above.
• VW Golf GTI 2010
  • Asset id: 450652597 (no longer in workshop)
  • Solution: Unsubscribe it
  • There is a fixed version, but it's bloated and may cause lag or fps drop

There are many other cuases of vehicles not spawning:

• Vehicles not spawning