Night Cabviews

Here is the latest progress in my experimentation of night cabviews. (Cab courtesy of Dekosoft) Kyle

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RE: Night Cabviews, Macster, Jul-20-02, 03:43 AM, (1) RE: Night Cabviews, lincolnzoo, Jul-20-02, 09:30 AM, (2) RE: Night Cabviews, CPR_Malice_96th, Jul-20-02, 09:49 AM, (3) RE: Night Cabviews, ace6879, Jul-20-02, 03:20 PM, (4) RE: Night Cabviews, kyleh24, Jul-20-02, 03:50 PM, (5) RE: Night Cabviews, kyleh24, Jul-20-02, 03:50 PM, (6) RE: Night Cabviews, kyleh24, Jul-20-02, 03:53 PM, (7) RE: Night Cabviews, DrJimi, Jul-20-02, 04:32 PM, (8) RE: Night Cabviews, kyleh24, Jul-20-02, 04:38 PM, (9) RE: Night Cabviews, CPR_Malice_96th, Jul-21-02, 01:18 PM, (10) RE: Night Cabviews, BNSF_Dash9, Aug-03-02, 03:08 AM, (11) RE: Night Cabviews, kyleh24, Aug-03-02, 04:28 PM, (12)

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Nice!! I like that. Do you have to use a seprate cabview in order to do that, or is it possible to "light" it when the sun comes up?great job.

Brian E. Bundridge
Seattle, WA USA
BN Wenatchee Oroville Route

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"GREAT" looking.

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Very Nice,I was ( stress the word was ) working on a SD70 version. The cab / left and right views all looked really good. It was when I started adjusting the lighting on the separate control ace files that I decided..Goin back to the lit up cab for nowOh wellTim Kent

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AWSOME!!!!!! Totally Frickin AWSOME!!!!
PLease continue!!!
KelleyKelley D. Ellison



CSX A-Line Chief lighting engineer
NALW Lighting engineer
Dekosoft Lighting engineer

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Thanks for all the fine comments. Macster, this is a seperate cab. Unlike Flight Simulator we don't have a switch to change the gauge lighting. I am glad you are all interested. I was somewhat discouraged on a previous post that there did not seem to be much interest.
http://www.train-sim.com/dcforum/DCForumID3/10041.html
I've enjoyed the use of what I've done so far, so much so that I am going to move forward with trying to enhance it. Tim, I was in the same boat as you with the individual aces for all the controls. However, someone helped me out in another post, and now my tgatool2 is converting odd sized aces just fine. If you have PSP7, I found that you can convert an ace file to night and save it in about 1 minute. This has eliminated the frustration I was having, and I encourage you to pursue your ideas. I am not the type who desires much credit for anything. I do it for me and if others like it, I'm willing to freely share. I will be glad to help you in any way that I can. Send me a private message if you wish to do so. I promise I have this process down to where it is pretty fast.
The only thing I must decide on, is that since you can't change back and forth between night and day, I would like to have 1 that is a compromise and can be used full-time. I am including some screenshots in hopes of soliciting your opinions on how you think I should proceed. Here is the present cab during daylight hours. Kyle

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Left view daytime

Kyle H

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Previous version day and night

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Kyle, that is really excellent -- truly believable. And its clear you've put a lot more skill into it than just adjusting the brightness and contrast. The overall balance of visibility, shade and lighing just look -- right. It certainly works well in both day and night modes too. I'm assuming, from your brief description, that you're achieving this by PSP7 adjustment of the TGA files, right?I'm in the middle of a different approach, mostly for my own amusement and learning. I'm trying to describe "night lighting" to 3D Canvas and use POV-Ray to render the night version (as I did for the day one) -- thus my questions in the other thread about cab lighting. To do this I have to define the light sources, type, color, direction, etc. Subtelty seems to be the key. It's coming along, but I don't yet have a result that I feel is as good as what you have achieved. Nor am I yet sure that my end result will be worth the extra effort -- but it's fun experimenting.Kudos to you. You've produced a very nice piece of work there!Regards, Jimi

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Jim, you are exactly right about modifying the TGA's in PSP7. The first post that I referenced tells a little more about it. It is certainly not a secret and I'm more than happy to elaborate to anyone who has an interest. Thanks for the compliments. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no knowledge of 3D Canvas, nor any modeling program. I wish I did. (I also wish I knew how to make a great route, but the guys around here are doing an awesome job of it!!!) Kyle

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Thanks for the offer of help. I may have to take you up on that.Oh well back to Ghost Recon for a bit .Tim Kent

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Those are great cab veiws mate - keep up the great work - look forward for them to be released. What are the cabs ment to be for? - They appear as if they are 1 piece windsheilds - like on the low cab U25B? - or are they 2 piece?Cheers (B)Mike

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They are from Dekosofts engines. The premise is that they are from standard 4 window cabs, such as the GP-38 and SD40-2 etc. I didn't create these cabs. I only modified them to be darker. Kyle

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