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SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-16-02, 05:45 PM (EST) "Polished rail !" Are you tired of that gray,flat lookin rail in MSTS?Well I have a solution my Train-sim buddies!I was messin around with the ACleantrack2.ace,and re-worked the "Rail" texture with some "Effects" in PSP7(Metallic gradient,3d effects,etc),and came up with a more "Prototypical" looking rail.Check it out!I will be up-loading the file tonight.Tell me what ya think?



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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: Polished rail ! dadbill Jan-16-02 1 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-16-02 8 RE: Polished rail ! Mrscotti Jan-16-02 2 RE: Polished rail ! dekosoft Jan-16-02 3 RE: Polished rail ! CPR_Malice_96th Jan-16-02 4 RE: Polished rail ! lnghairedwizard Jan-16-02 5 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-16-02 6 RE: Polished rail ! jfroth1 Jan-16-02 7 RE: Polished rail ! NorfolkSouthern_37 Jan-16-02 9 RE: Polished rail ! Splatter Jan-17-02 10 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-17-02 11 RE: Polished rail ! lnghairedwizard Jan-17-02 12 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-17-02 13 RE: Polished rail ! tro1086 Jan-18-02 14 RE: Polished rail ! jltrains Jan-18-02 15 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-18-02 16 RE: Polished rail ! jltrains Jan-18-02 18 RE: Polished rail ! svante Jan-18-02 17 RE: Polished rail ! jltrains Jan-18-02 19 RE: Polished rail ! svante Jan-19-02 25 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-18-02 20 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-18-02 21 RE: Polished rail ! kwk100 Jan-18-02 22 RE: Polished rail ! svante Jan-19-02 23 RE: Polished rail ! svante Jan-19-02 24 RE: Polished rail ! SD80MAC Jan-19-02 26 RE: Polished rail ! svante Jan-19-02 27 RE: Polished rail ! kwk100 Jan-19-02 28

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dadbill (55 posts)
Jan-16-02, 05:52 PM (EST) 1. "RE: Polished rail !" I LOVE IT! I definitely want one! or some, or more!Thanks mucho!db. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-16-02, 08:49 PM (EST) 8. "RE: Polished rail !" Actually,you need just the one file,and you can use the one file on any route.Looks good even at a distance view! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
Mrscotti (42 posts)
Jan-16-02, 06:30 PM (EST) 2. "RE: Polished rail !" Damn! that looks good! Good work1 Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
dekosoft (152 posts)
Jan-16-02, 06:36 PM (EST) 3. "RE: Polished rail !" Very nice. These subtle touches make for a huge difference overall.cheers,
Chip
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CPR_Malice_96th (467 posts)
Jan-16-02, 06:43 PM (EST) 4. "RE: Polished rail !" LAST EDITED ON Jan-16-02 AT 06:43 PM (EST)I'll take a copy of that pls !!Tim Kent
CPR_Malice
Winninpeg, Canada
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lnghairedwizard (539 posts)
Jan-16-02, 07:06 PM (EST) 5. "RE: Polished rail !" Damn Don, that looks 10 times better!!! Did you add some "rust" effects to the sides as well?PS-I'll get those files for ya later tonight when I can get faster download speed. even with my cable when I tried earlier I only got 5 kbs and it wouldv'e taken about 50min just download first of like 10 files for that route!Bill Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-16-02, 07:42 PM (EST) 6. "RE: Polished rail !" Hey Bill!As a matter a fact I did!Before I up-loaded the file,I went ahead and weathered the "sides" of the rail...to make it realistic" as possible.Thanks for downloading the East coast route for me...Appreciate it Bud! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jfroth1 (53 posts)
Jan-16-02, 08:40 PM (EST) 7. "RE: Polished rail !" Yes, Rails Lookin' gooooooooood!
Once again, the Train-Sim community DID, what MSFT shoulda/woulda/coulda done, and didn't. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice rails...
Rollin', rollin', rollin'.....
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NorfolkSouthern_37 (84 posts)
Jan-16-02, 11:58 PM (EST) 9. "RE: Polished rail !" might i suggest something?ive changed my rail textures too, and i really like yours, but honestly, nothing that wide looks like a rail...
i narrowed the shiny silver part and placed some rusty parts there, so it looks like the rail is alot smaller and not as wide on top. if you could do this, youd have the best rail texture around, nice job!sorry i dont have a good pic of them, but look in the bottom portion of this one.

-Justin Cornell
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Splatter (175 posts)
Jan-17-02, 00:05 AM (EST) 10. "RE: Polished rail !" Justin can you drop me an email at fhuff@gt.rr.com .I've emailed you a couple of times to your hotmail account.Freddie A. Huff
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SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-17-02, 06:16 AM (EST) 11. "RE: Polished rail !" Justin,thanks for the tip,although i already up-loaded the file to the server.I'll update the the rail,then up-load it again.One thing i noticed about the "new" rail is when i choose "snow",or winter as the season,the rail looks different(back to the gray,flat msts look)?Any Ideas? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
lnghairedwizard (539 posts)
Jan-17-02, 06:30 AM (EST) 12. "RE: Polished rail !" Hey don, I dont know exactly why there should be a different texture for the rail for winter of autumn, etc, since you don't see snow on the rail or anything like that. But you may have to copy the files and insert them in the various files for the different seasons. Have had to do this with more than one add-on route!!!Bill Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-17-02, 06:38 AM (EST) 13. "RE: Polished rail !" I thought there was a trick to it?I'll have to experiment when I get home from work...Thanks Bill! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
tro1086 (86 posts)
Jan-18-02, 01:46 AM (EST) 14. "RE: Polished rail !" hey SD80, ide have to agree with NorfolkSouthern that the rail heads do look a little too wide, if you look closely at the real thing, you will notice the inside half of the rail head is shiney because thats where the train wheels sit all the time, but the outside half of the rail head is rusty, but they look much better then the dull grey rails as they are. Great idea, great work, keep at it!!Trevor Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jltrains (11 posts)
Jan-18-02, 03:50 PM (EST) 15. "RE: Polished rail !" >might i suggest something?
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>ive changed my rail textures too,
>and i really like yours,
>but honestly, nothing that
>wide looks like a rail...
>
>i narrowed the shiny silver part
>and placed some rusty parts
>there, so it looks like
>the rail is alot smaller
>and not as wide on
>top. if you could do
>this, youd have the best
>rail texture around, nice job!
>
>
>sorry i dont have a good
>pic of them, but look
>in the bottom portion of
>this one.
>
>
>
>-Justin Cornell
>aka NorfolkSouthern_37 What Route Is That
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SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-18-02, 06:26 PM (EST) 16. "RE: Polished rail !" Marias Pass...somewhere around Shelby. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jltrains (11 posts)
Jan-18-02, 06:44 PM (EST) 18. "RE: Polished rail !"
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To Norfolk_Southern87 What Route Is In Your Photo
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svante (418 posts)
Jan-18-02, 06:32 PM (EST) 17. "RE: Polished rail !" Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
jltrains (11 posts)
Jan-18-02, 06:49 PM (EST) 19. "RE: Polished rail !" What Steam LocoMotive Is That On Your Picture Svante Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
svante (418 posts)
Jan-19-02, 01:37 AM (EST) 25. "RE: Polished rail !" LAST EDITED ON Jan-19-02 AT 01:38 AM (EST)It's Richard Cowen's Decapod (2-10-0). It can be downloaded from Train-sim.com. Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-18-02, 08:44 PM (EST) 20. "RE: Polished rail !" Svante!Is that my rail,or did you create a new one? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-18-02, 08:49 PM (EST) 21. "RE: Polished rail !" ...I like the dark wooden ties,and the dark gray ballast...looks really good!!!I tried to edit the track texture myself,and managed to "raise" the ties off(up from) the ballast,so it looks more 3 dimensional.I'm still workin on that one.Did you save the track texture as a bmp?,or tga? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kwk100 (53 posts)
Jan-18-02, 11:22 PM (EST) 22. "RE: Polished rail !" That looks so awesome!!! I also like the dark ties and ballast, great work!!!!kwk100 Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
svante (418 posts)
Jan-19-02, 01:30 AM (EST) 23. "RE: Polished rail !" I made a new one. It uses the standard "metallic" gradient in Paint Shop Pro but the shiny part has been narrowed down by coloring the edges of the top of the rail dark brown. The sides of the rail use a brown/rust inverted gradient.The ties use the standard "dark wood" texture that has been darkened. The ballast has also been darkened (perhaps a bit too much). Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
svante (418 posts)
Jan-19-02, 01:34 AM (EST) 24. "RE: Polished rail !" I forgot the image with the ties and the ballast: Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
SD80MAC (560 posts)
Jan-19-02, 02:12 AM (EST) 26. "RE: Polished rail !" Looks good!Are you gonna up-load your version?I'd like to have the ACleanTrack1.ace file you made with the dark colored ties,i think it looks good like that!Did you check out in the "Trainsimulator" forum my "Water" project?So when ya gonna start on your sd45 sp&up project? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
svante (418 posts)
Jan-19-02, 03:19 AM (EST) 27. "RE: Polished rail !" I've already started the SD45-project. It's say 80% complete. I've got lights and some other paperwork left.Haven't thought about uploading the ties and rail but why not? Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
kwk100 (53 posts)
Jan-19-02, 03:28 AM (EST) 28. "RE: Polished rail !" Upload the dark rails, please!!! SD80MAC's and svante's rails are a million times better than MS's rails!!kwk100 Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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