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Southern_Railway (52 posts)
Dec-05-01, 06:58 PM (EST) "Realism wish list" I'm not a route designer. I realize how difficult your job is since I have a copy of Michael Vone's tutorial. Your efforts are appreciated very much. I rarely use the default routes because some of yours are so good (and continue to get better and better).Some things I haven't seen, but would like to see are:1-Patches of wildflowers of various colors
2-Sports fields
3-Another engineer in the cab with me
4-Changing weather (Jak will probably take care of that with the next Sky Conductor. After he finishes Route Control?)
5-More realistic water (colors, shore lines, etc)
6-Snow on trains
7-Snow capped mountains
8-Neon signs
9-Tractors in fields
10-Boat and plane spawners
11-People spawner
12-Headlights on cars
13-Airplanes on ground
14-Construction sites
15-Smoke rising from chimneysI know I don't ask much. Some of you appear to be wizards. Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Realism wish list beaches timken Dec-05-01 1 RE: Realism wish list beaches Southern_Railway Dec-05-01 2 RE: Realism wish list beaches timken Dec-05-01 3 RE: Realism wish list beaches Southern_Railway Dec-05-01 4 RE: Realism wish list beaches tryagin Dec-06-01 7 RE: Realism wish list cyberstorm Dec-06-01 5 RE: Realism wish list dutchtrain Dec-14-01 8 RE: Realism wish list cyberstorm Dec-14-01 9 RE: Realism wish list tomkrist Dec-06-01 6 RE: Realism wish list BN_9402 Dec-14-01 10

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timken (176 posts)
Dec-05-01, 08:34 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Realism wish list beaches" I had this shot in a post a few days ago. I'm working on terrain textures. The set includes two end pieces, a straight beach, and a 90 degree corner. All are pretty simple to paint and get in the program, the catch is, at 512 square pixels each, it would be a big upload, and it also takes another set if you ever run in winter or snow.I
ve been having great luck with using parts of photos for rock fill, cuts, etc. They are faily specific to where you use them though.Steve Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Southern_Railway (52 posts)
Dec-05-01, 09:14 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Realism wish list beaches" Steve, that is really, really impressive. I guess I can check one item off my "wish list". What route will this beach be part of? I think the only thing that keeps it from being even more realistic is the color of the water. Is there any way to make it a little more blue? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
timken (176 posts)
Dec-05-01, 10:21 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Realism wish list beaches" It's a late evening shot, on a modified portion of the PO&N, which has darker water. I'll try to get a set together to match the standard water in the rest of the sim, and upload them in the next week or so. Here's another shot of a scene I'm working on. If you want, I could post a slightly compressed jpg of the 512 square texture for the beach. You would have to convert it to a bitmap, use the makeace tool, then get it into your terretex folder to try out.Steve Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Southern_Railway (52 posts)
Dec-05-01, 10:36 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Realism wish list beaches" Thanks, but I am a long way from being able to use your work. I am slowly getting there. Quite a learning curve. Hope to see your beaches on other routes soon. Very nice work. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
tryagin (497 posts)
Dec-06-01, 11:50 AM (EST) 7. "RE: Realism wish list beaches" Hey, that Ocean is perfect in color. That's the way it is looking right now, here in Oregon - a Dark Jade Green! That's fine for us Pacific Northwesterners, now, if I can ever get to the point of using this, I could build the SP&S route to Seaside, Oregon - some year! Well done Steve! Man, you're an Arteest !Tim Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
cyberstorm (115 posts)
Dec-06-01, 06:07 AM (EST) 5. "RE: Realism wish list" 10-Boat and plane spawners - done it. see thread on "trains and boats and planes" and route "HOOGDAM"11-People spawner - We really dont want to see people spawning, this program can be used by children you know 12-Headlights on cars - Dunno, they dont have ENG files13-Airplanes on ground - Done - theres a Learjet available and any FlightShop aircraft can be imported to TS Modeller so expect more.14-Construction sites - now TS Modellers out it cant be long.15-Smoke rising from chimneys - Can be done - but the house has to be an "engine" in order to have an .ENG file and sit on an invisible siding and be going at a reasonable throttle to get the smoke, but at the same time not moving (no adheasion) it can be done! were working on it! You can have lights too! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
dutchtrain (55 posts)
Dec-14-01, 10:35 AM (EST) 8. "RE: Realism wish list" >12-Headlights on cars - Dunno, they
>dont have ENG files Can't this be done using a night-texture?Cas
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cyberstorm (115 posts)
Dec-14-01, 01:22 PM (EST) 9. "RE: Realism wish list" yep they can use a light texture, but it doesnt cast any light like the headlamps on the train. Just finding out about that now I have TSModeller.Terry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
tomkrist (71 posts)
Dec-06-01, 08:24 AM (EST) 6. "RE: Realism wish list"
1) I can't see there is any flowers avaible in trainsim. Anyone
who know about stuff to import?2) Sports Fields. I have this included in my route. Its a sport-
stadium(Its included in the trainsim but i have never seen theese area in the default routes,however, i have used it)3) Not the route designers work4) Jupp....Sky Conductor is the solution.5) Since my terrain in Norway have a lot of rivers and lakes
and sea, i have been working ALOT of theese. The work
is in progress!6) Not Route Designers work!7) In Wintertime on my route, the mountains are beautiful in
snows. No problemo.8) Something you need to import. Not sure if it exists?
9) Lot of tractors on my route, farms, cows...10) I have used the default boats in water on my route.The plane spawners i leave to the expert. Plane Spawner? I readed it was possible, but have to learn how to do it.11) Not included in the default train-sim. I think this board
is on Microsoft's hand.12)Not sure13) If anyone makes object then its only to import it.14 and 15) Not sure.You are asking for a quite lot of things to be added that are NOT standard in Trainsim. You have to remember that the route designer are limited to WHAT the trainsim actually can do. Some problems are solved however.T.K Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
BN_9402 (16 posts)
Dec-14-01, 10:14 PM (EST) 10. "RE: Realism wish list" My wish list for the train sim route designer would be small and composed of the following:1. Santa Fe-style cantilever signal bridges.2. Cantilever-Style Crossing Gates-the default crossing gates are getting old.3. More varieties of grain elevators.Since, I'm designing BNSF's Emporia Sub, the busiest single track mainline in North America, many of the items on my wish list appear in my route. I'll be getting Train Sim Designer for Christmas, so I'll tinker around with that for a while, see what I can scratch off my list.Austin
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