Blue Passenger Pack

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Hi Mike
That's quite possible, 'live' DLCs may not appear in beta versions until later in development (each major update of Trainz is handled separately). I will pass it to the content team to take a look tomorrow though, to see if they can make it available to the beta version.

Hiya buddy thank you for replying. No rush just wondering why i wasn't seeing the pack anymore. Your help is much very appreciated.

Mike.

 

[Paulsw2]

Hi All
For the BR Blue Pack (and all Trainz Plus exclusive packs), they should be shown under their name when using a Trainz Plus Gold MyTrainz subscription. For the Steam subscription, unfortunately at the moment it will be shown under the pack's ID number (simc:2520 for the BR Blue pack), due to some limitations in Steam's handling of DLC (we are looking at improving this, if Steam actually allows for it).

In regards to the cab view; during research, in conjunction with several very talented UK content creators, we ended up with somewhat misleading information on the cab view that lead me to believe the class 37 cab would be suitable. Late into development new information was provided (by same and other UK creators ), that highlighted the differences to me. From this we have already been doing further research into this to produce an accurate cab view for the Class 40 for future, and we intend to update the BR Blue Pack to include this. But it was decided to release the pack with the 37 cab on the Class 40, so that we could get an otherwise finished pack out to everyone.

For the MK1 coach interiors, during development of the 9F and BR Blue Packs, the exteriors of the coaches were rebuilt to correct the shape of the coach bodies (including the windows), however rebuilding the interior views wasn't possible for this pack. We may look at this for future updates/releases, however unfortunately it is not a small task. To be honest the passenger views are a less used aspect of these types of the packs compared to the exterior views and loco cabs, and hence the priority was the exterior models and loco cabs (despite the above with the class 40!). This isn't saying they won't be updated, but just that we are still looking into the feasibility of this, compared to expanding the range of content we can provide.

Which leads us to the locos themselves (and the MK1s ), and more so variants of these... We definitely want to produce more of these, and we have received a lot of feedback (including on the forums) about versions people would like to see! I can say that there's a lot in development that I can't quite show yet, but will hopefully be revealed very soon... In the mean time, next will be a swing back in time with some more steam, and for this I've been given the ok to post a bit of a teaser since some of it has already been revealed on the roadmap



I know it's a touch earlier than the BR Blue era of this thread, but this is just one of many items in development at the moment But for this one, which has a few more items not shown here, it is currently in it's first round of testing with a few members of the community who have assisted a lot for the last couple of UK DLC packs. We hope for it to appear on the TCCP website for a wider beta test in the coming weeks if all goes well

As a reminder, beta tests on the TCCP website don't require Trainz Plus or Trainz Plus Gold to access; they are accessible to anyone in the community who wishes to participate. All new DLCs will go through at least one round of beta testing on there; sometimes more, and it's a good time to give feedback on DLC packs. Generally showstoppers will be the focus at this stage (ie issues that prevent the content from working correctly); but even so any issues should be reported so that they can be looked into, and this will allow the creator (either us, or 3rd party) to look into it for future updates to the pack.

Regards

This is all great news Zec (and nice to see a new version of the 8F, do hope we'll see it in BR colours!) however, can I respectfully ask that N3V prioritise completing the models you've already offered as DLC?

• the class 47 - in 1960s and '70s 47/0 and 47/3 variants in BR green; pre-TOPs blue and TOPS blue with headcodes;
• the class 40 - in BR green; in pre-TOPS blue; with full headcodes;
• the class 9F - in standard BR black (single chimney variants). Possibly additional tenders?
• the class 08 - in BR green.

New models are very nice to see, but it's a shame if you don't develop the models you've got.

Paul