Cylindrical Hoppers

LAST EDITED ON Sep-14-03 AT 03:12 AM (EDT)

Just up-loaded new 3D models of Cylindrical Hoppers.1 GN 5 round hatch 6 discharge shoot 3 bay hopper.
1 CP 4 square hatch with 4 discharge shoots.
1 CBQ 6 round hatch 3 discharge shoots hopper.1 each skinning models for each of the above.Enjoy
Don

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RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, csxt602, Sep-14-03, 03:30 AM, (1) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, TexasWestern70Mac, Sep-14-03, 04:11 AM, (2) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, fallnflags, Sep-14-03, 12:23 PM, (4) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, Railfan727, Sep-15-03, 10:24 AM, (13) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, Railfan727, Sep-14-03, 10:19 AM, (3) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, GrizzlyBear, Sep-14-03, 02:04 PM, (5) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, Railfan727, Sep-14-03, 09:33 PM, (6) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, fallnflags, Sep-14-03, 10:13 PM, (7) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, Railfan727, Sep-15-03, 00:09 AM, (9) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, fallnflags, Sep-15-03, 00:16 AM, (10) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, csxt602, Sep-15-03, 01:05 AM, (11) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, fallnflags, Sep-19-03, 04:42 PM, (16) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, fallnflags, Sep-14-03, 10:15 PM, (8) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, pwillard, Sep-15-03, 10:06 AM, (12) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, csxt602, Sep-15-03, 03:15 PM, (14) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, lnghairedwizard, Sep-15-03, 05:48 PM, (15) RE: Cylindrical Hoppers, CGW409, Sep-19-03, 06:12 PM, (17)

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They look great Don! Maybe Bill Hemb can reskin these into his "Canadian collection" since he hasn't had any luck with TA and their permission to use their model.Chris Denbow - Baltimore, MD
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LAST EDITED ON Sep-14-03 AT 04:15 AM (EDT)

i sure will when i get back home with my comp that has msts on it .... that CP cylindrical hopper looks right on for a canadian grain hopper. all i can say is good job on the models and about time a freeware one came out
fallenflags, curious, it looks like those models were done in tsm. if so what's the poly count and are there multiple lod's? the killing problem with cameron lashley's model is they were over 2000 poly hoppers with no LOD's. 70 cars of them (a short grain train by any railroad standards) killed my framerates into the single digits. these look more poly friendly with more aphla channels. do they also have multiple lod's? i will download them regaurdless, but an curious.Hauling America one pixel at a time
Bill Hemb; train sim repainter http://www.cascadenscale.org/Evergreen/tsdm.htm

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Thanks for the kind words. Yea the Poly count is a bit high, and no I didn't use LOD...'cause I don't know how. I'm entirely self taught and still learning how to make TSM behave. I did "alpha" everything I could. I've looked a a few "tutorials" on this but it didn't make a lot of sense to me. If someone can point out some decent instructions on how to use this feature I would surly appreciate it.The CP model is based on the actual CP car #385173 that I found on a siding in Northern California in April of 2002 along with other demention data from other sources.
Don

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No offense intended, but I've noticed that the wheels on all 3 cars are distinctly oval/elliptical rather than round.How hard would it be to fix this?Also, if you need help on the LODs, email me at railfan727@yahoo.com.

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YES!!!! It's about freakin' TIME somebody did a freeware Canadian grain hopper!Will textures made for the MLT model fit it?Conrail also had a two-bay version of the 3-bay ACF hopper... it was the same length as the 3-bay; the center bay was omitted and it had 4 hatches on the roof instead of 6.

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Nice work Don! They look better than a lot of the payware ones I have that came with various routes. Should look nice in the various Alberta cars.Grizzly

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Any chance of a round-hatch version of that CP car for potash service (Indusmin, CN, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, etc.)?

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Do you have a picture, or is all that is needed is round hatches. How many?Note that the GN 170995 car and SPX 70007 skinning model is based on the GN pot ash cars.Don

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Four round hatches... see the attached pic.Photo courtesy of Michael Greer.

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How many discharge shoots? Don

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>How many discharge shoots?4, just like your CP car Don. Good work!Chris Denbow - Baltimore, MD
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Just uploaded a four round hatch version.Look for Hopper_SPS_77777Don

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Some documentation mix up. The CP car is CP but the docs say CN. The Zip file is HopCN.zip but it contains the CP car.Sorry (Dang cut and paste)Don

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I didn't even realize we were missing these! Great Work.I think I also just realized that even B&O / Chessie had some.
Pete Willard
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>I think I also just realized that even B&O / Chessie had
>some. In my best Ed McMahon voice: "You are correct sir!". They are the 6-bay cars IIRC.I still see some from time to time in Chessie paint on D779 and D979 outta Baltimore headed for Brunswick, MD. Hmmmm..... me thinks I have another project to add to my list!Chris Denbow - Baltimore, MD
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If anyone can find me some pics of some various northeastern liveries of these, I'd like to do some reskins and release them as a Northeastern Cylindrical hopper Megapack???I'd like to see some pics in PRR, PC, CR, B&O, CHESSIE etc...Bill Bzak aka Longhairedwizardbbzak@msn.com"The Keystone Works"

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