I know I'm still a fair way from complete, but it's sometimes nice to see progress of peoples routes - seeing some "finished products" without the steps in between, it makes the route look kinda daunting. That's why I like seeing Muliebuck and mattm's screenshots especially, as it's a step by step to the finished product.
Raichase, thank you. I am touched, quite deeply. It's nice to know that someone appreciates the lift that seeing an in-development route is capable of providing. Particularly to someone new to the sim.
Granted; the shots we see from people such as 3830 and Deadly (beaut shots, BTW, mate) are from areas that have had much love and attention given to them, but for me, that's kinda off-putting. What we are seeing is the end result of days/weeks/months of effort, remember. We very rarely see the badly rotated textures, molehills for mountains, and ghost towns that eventually develop, after much effort, into the shots we do see.
Personally, and no offense is meant to anybody, but i would prefer to see shots of an in-development route, over a finished product, that has been touched and re-touched to perfection; any day! With the WIP shots i can look at them, and say, 'hey, my route looks like that. Maybe we all start like this'; or 'oh, so that's how that developed.' It's about drawing inspiration/cofidence from the fact that even the best routes available start out as a blank baseboard, with a few key structures/tracks, etc laid out, and build up slowly from that.
The acorn came before the oak, yeah? Anyways, my apologies for boring you to tears with that; just thought i'd get it out there. Who knows, maybe there are more people who think like this out there?
Cheers, as always,
Matt.
Edit: Forgot to say, nice screens Raichase. I like the setup you have for loco there.
. I'll put a fuel siding in at the next yard, just for you!
