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ChooChoo (36 posts)
Feb-19-02, 06:03 PM (EST) "What's THAT up in the air??" LAST EDITED ON Feb-19-02 AT 06:07 PM (EST)A bird? A train? NO. It's a ...? Well, actually it's a Flying Circus Blimp which I just uploaded to the files area. And Yes, it DOES fly around your route. And it even has a night texture to help advertise the Circus. If you don't have a circus, maybe the Fujifilm Blimp is for you. It is a separate object and flies a different path and altitude, so you can have both if you want.Or how about a generic Blimp? It too is colorful, true to prototype and highly detailed, yet each is only 550 polys and uses a single 256x256 texture. You might even like to have them all at the same time! They each come with complete easy-to-follow instructions for installation and activating the animation. And each has a "spotter post" that you place on the groundThe spotter always points at your blimp so you can easily place it and find it. Then you can hide the post when you are happy with the behavior of the blimp in your route.Also included with the files are special thumbnails to replace the "invisible" thumbnails produced by the Route Editor, so you can see what you get.
So why not have some fun. Put a little life into a static route and go FLY a BLIMP!
I hope you enjoy them - watch for MORE animated stuff soon!
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: What's THAT up in the air?? sundevil_1997 Feb-19-02 1 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? ChooChooCharlie Feb-19-02 4 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? Euston Feb-20-02 8 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? KC_Jones Feb-19-02 2 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? ChooChoo Feb-19-02 5 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? KC_Jones Feb-19-02 6 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? LawrenceKellie Feb-19-02 3 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? enocell Feb-20-02 7 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? LocoRo Feb-20-02 9 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? ChooChoo Feb-21-02 12 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? Southern_Railway Feb-20-02 10 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? micke321 Feb-20-02 11 RE: What's THAT up in the air?? ChooChoo Feb-21-02 13

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sundevil_1997 (104 posts)
Feb-19-02, 08:11 PM (EST) 1. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Gosh darnit, I KNEW I shouldn't have checked the forums.....seeing incredible objects like these makes me want to start working on my route again..... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ChooChooCharlie (101 posts)
Feb-19-02, 08:51 PM (EST) 4. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Wow! Thats too cool! I'm going to Add that to the Circus I added to Rich Garber's EMRR. That blimp Realy looks great!

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Euston (859 posts)
Feb-20-02, 02:00 PM (EST) 8. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-02 AT 02:02 PM (EST)Superb - I really got to finish my route's scenery, so I can put these blimps in over the airport.
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KC_Jones (14 posts)
Feb-19-02, 08:47 PM (EST) 2. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Does this require tracks in the sky i.e. Hoogdam Line?
Is this just for developers?
Can a shmoe like me simply download and get these things
flying in my existing routes?
thxSteve
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ChooChoo (36 posts)
Feb-19-02, 09:25 PM (EST) 5. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Good questions, Steve...>Does this require tracks in the
>sky i.e. Hoogdam Line?
No tracks. This is animated scenery. Just place it and turn it on.>Is this just for developers?
nope its for anybody who likes to have fun.>Can a shmoe like me simply
>download and get these things flying in my existing routes?
The instructions are pretty clear and simple if you know how to open a .ref file in Wordpad. The average shmoe should be able to do it (you sound above average, I'd say). It can be placed in any route using Route Editor (which is fairly easy to learn - at least the basics of how to place objects)To clear up any confusion: this is not a blimp that you fly (it just flies by itself) - but you have given me an idea... maybe adding a .eng file and a cabview... OK back to the drawing board!
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KC_Jones (14 posts)
Feb-19-02, 09:37 PM (EST) 6. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Gotcha! Thank you. This is cool!Steve
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LawrenceKellie (1354 posts)
Feb-19-02, 08:47 PM (EST) 3. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Incredible.Lawrence Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
enocell (424 posts)
Feb-20-02, 12:33 PM (EST) 7. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Is it possible to have scrolling text on it? I will need that for my Duff-blimp...This shot is from my very customized Mtm2:
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LocoRo (373 posts)
Feb-20-02, 03:01 PM (EST) 9. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Those look really really great ! and also a simple install Thank you Ron for those sweet add-ons Greetings Roland
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ChooChoo (36 posts)
Feb-21-02, 10:52 AM (EST) 12. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Hi Enocell!
Nice blimp - I didn't see it in the DL section here - have you made it available? I'd like one if it is available. (I have all your buildings, BTW and like them very much).As far as animating text or images, I don't think MSTS has any way of doing that, and it really is a shame. There is so much that could be done with texture swapping. It would be a lot of fun to see animating marquee lights on movie theaters and carnival rides - I've seen a few examples of blinking (flashing) lights - so maybe we should investigate that mechanism to see if it could be used for other porposes. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Southern_Railway (175 posts)
Feb-20-02, 03:24 PM (EST) 10. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" Wow! Thanks Ron!! Am I definately going to use them. Bill Burnett Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
micke321 (9 posts)
Feb-20-02, 03:55 PM (EST) 11. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" LAST EDITED ON Feb-20-02 AT 04:02 PM (EST)When and Where can it be downloaded?? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ChooChoo (36 posts)
Feb-21-02, 10:57 AM (EST) 13. "RE: What's THAT up in the air??" micke321:
The blimps were uploaded here two days ago, so should be made available soon. I guess Nels is just playing with Sea View and didn't get around to posting the new submissions yet.
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