Check Out the New TER Site

[grogstop65]

I will be hosting my new products here until the old TER site is rebuilt.

Click the banner to vist!

 

[strench707]

Very nice, I like the artwork!

Davis

 

[Euphod]

Great site John, thinking about the calendar.....

 

[sethmcs]

Good luck on your new site!

grogstop65,

Good luck to you and your team on the new site. Your route looks fantastic but I am afraid my computer would not be able to handle it. That's ok. I can still learn from your techniques to build better routes for myself. I do advocate tree spamming because I live in Western Pennsylvania (Penn's Woods) and trees are spammed everywhere.:hehe:

Good luck on your new venture.:wave:

 

[grogstop65]

grogstop65,

Good luck to you and your team on the new site. Your route looks fantastic but I am afraid my computer would not be able to handle it. That's ok. I can still learn from your techniques to build better routes for myself. I do advocate tree spamming because I live in Western Pennsylvania (Penn's Woods) and trees are spammed everywhere.:hehe:

Good luck on your new venture.:wave:

Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you like the route and new website. I built most of my routes on 512 ram and an older geforce card "I will look up the specs tonight". I'm running a more powerful computer now but I've worked hard sense then to decrease the poly count on my routes while mainting a high standard of quality.

If you want to learn from my techiques, what I'm about to tell you will be one of the most important things I can say.
Trees are not really spammed they are clustered together in great varitey...continuty with out monotony.
Tree spamming is inferior tactic based off of an inferior way of viewing a landscape. So do not be fooled by those who link my style to it

The tactic was linked to my name by its inventers but in all realty has nothing to do with how I create landscapes.
My best advice to you is to avoid that techique.
if you ever need any route building tips feel free to ask and I'll help you out as best I can.

PS, Western PA is in my opinion is home to some of if not the most beautiful landscapes in the country. Where are you from in western PA? Maybe we share railfaning turf.

 

[sethmcs]

Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you like the route and new website. I built most of my routes on 512 ram and an older geforce card "I will look up the specs tonight". I'm running a more powerful computer now but I've worked hard sense then to decrease the poly count on my routes while mainting a high standard of quality.

If you want to learn from my techiques, what I'm about to tell you will be one of the most important things I can say.
Trees are not really spammed they are clustered together in great varitey...continuty with out monotony.
Tree spamming is inferior tactic based off of an inferior way of viewing a landscape. So do not be fooled by those who link my style to it

The tactic was linked to my name by its inventers but in all realty has nothing to do with how I create landscapes.
My best advice to you is to avoid that techique.
if you ever need any route building tips feel free to ask and I'll help you out as best I can.

PS, Western PA is in my opinion is home to some of if not the mot beautiful landscapes in the country. Where are you from in western PA? Maybe we share railfaning turf.

The spamming thing was a joke. However I do pick one tree as a base to cover a forest (usually maple) then add oaks pines and weeping willows (if near water). My idea is to use maybe five trees and create a forest effect without grinding my computer to a halt. I use the higher poly trees selectively in suburban environments to give the neibourhood feel. I always have this feeling I am going to overdo it because of the need for hundreds maybe thousands of trees to capture the forest effect in a given area.

I am from Johnstown, PA which is between Pittsburgh and Altoona on the Pennsylvania RR main line through the Allegheny Mountains.

 

[springtransit]

PS, Western PA is in my opinion is home to some of if not the mot beautiful landscapes in the country.

The climate leaves a bit to be desired, though. Especially when they plow the snow into the van accessible parking spaces!

 

[sethmcs]

What?!? Snow a problem? Are you kidding?

The climate leaves a bit to be desired, though. Especially when they plow the snow into the van accessible parking spaces!

:hehe:

 

[ex-railwayman]

Hello young John, may I enquire, would you mail a calendar or a CD of one of your routes to the U.K. please ??

Lovely site BTW.

Thankz. ex-railwayman.

 

[springtransit]

Yeah, I'm sure it's no big deal for the railroads, at least they don't throw all the snow into the handicapped spaces!

Since I got TC3, I decided to put transit routes aside, such as TER's Pittsburgh layout, until TRS2009, and do mostly steam routes. But with this, and that TC3 San Francisco layout, I'm almost tempted to change my mind...

Remember peoples, only you can prevent tree spamming!