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I have seen some great looking cabs here, and many are such that if you change the "nose" showing in the front "window", they are completely adaptable to any loco of the correct type. There are reskinning "kits" for the exteriors, why not one for the cabs? Just as the "kits" contain shapes that can be painted, why not included shapes for the parts of the loco nose that show. Also included would be the "headout" coordinates required to capture the nose of the locomotive to be "cabskinned". The existing shape could be used as a template to "cut" the nose from the captured view, then it could be pasted where necessary in the cabview. The rest of the creator's cabview would be untouched, just the part where the visible loco nose would be. Just an idea.
Joe Morris CRR #2 Senior Engineer Vice President, Equip. & Physics, OVS Gen. Manager, Canton Railroad
Joe: I use night cabs whenever possible. The hood outside the front is usually dark enough that it doesn't matter. As for the HeadOut view, it's easy enough to adjust. The first value moves the view left or right. The second value moves it up or down. The third value moves it forward or backward.Cyndi
Yes, it is true that Don is being quite productive. He has made some fabulous cabs for the Canton Geeps. I am sure that his other work is of the same excellent quality. Still, if Don were to have to end his prolific production.... and along comes a new GP-9 in colors not yet done by him, wouldn't it be nice to only have to "paint" a nose and place it into his excellent cab? I have seen loco reskinning kits and just wondered why there were no cab kits.
Joe Morris CRR #2 Senior Engineer Vice President, Equip. & Physics, OVS Gen. Manager, Canton Railroad
I have made 2 cabview for almost all hood diesel which can change nose. And also a templete for change nose color. They are all in file library, you can search "wang daqing" to find it.My cabview nose is small and nose only, although it give good feeling than no nose. It's still not like other big nose. No doubt use same technical for some large nose is possible and can save much disk space. Why I have not do that is feeling change color is easy, but paint pattern is difficult, it's very difficult to get perspective correct unless use 3D model. Another thing is I don't feel show nose in middle window is necessary, for most US hood diesel cab, control is high enough than show nose in there. But I can not rise the control for I have no picture to fill the control bottom.If someone can take cab picture like TA done (need a very short len), make cabview will be easy.
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