I've actually been discouraged by my lack of progress on the route lately, but family, work at the height of season, calculus (sucks!), trying to buy a house, a new litter of Yorkie puppies, upgrading to TS2010, and now being sick for the past week has kept me from working on it.
In the upgrade process, it seems that Trunda's trees don't look quite so good anymore. I've used compatibility and native modes and wasn't satisfied. I've replaced them with the hated speedtrees, but I still can't find any grasses that I'm truly satisfied with. I've tried McGuireL's ultragrass, but everything still seems so blocky and pixelated. New progress seems to have taken a back seat to refining the old stuff.
A few screenies of my recent work:
At the Allenport Marina (this grass needs replaced):
Coming into the north end of Allenport:
Another shot in Allenport (McGuireL's wildflowers- better than the other grass):
Bringing up the rear passing the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Allenport Mill (YukonZoom's new fences- why is the barbed wire so sharp (no pun intended) while the rest of the chain link is so blocky, and it seems like ALL fences are like this now):
I'm using JointedRail's great new track for the mainline, but I wish they would put out a matching rusty version to go with it for the sidings.
---Scott