GMax and 3DSMax (And any other modeling program) screenies/renders

All I know is they look superb, if they were painted up, you wouldn't know if they were real or not...

Great work WEN, hope these get released for Trainz one day, I know there will be a lot of Trainzers wanting to get there hands on them.

Joe Airtime
 
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Buffalo_trains93 said:
The cars closer to us have a box/step looking piece underneath the last and first small windows, whereas the back car does not. Do I win a cookie?!

Take care,

Ryan:wave:
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Yep you are right and no you don't win a cookie. There are more differences to spot than that. :) If you can spot the error, great. :)

teddytoot said:
The car at the back appears to have a blocked in window at the rear and also roof vents.
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Partially right, both have blocked in windows, thats where the toilet is. But yeah, recessed vents is one difference, the other one is suppose to have raised vents, but I haven't got that far yet and the doors are different.

Unfortuately, I seem to have the misfortune of not having most of the references I used to hand, so heres a side shot of one of the cars I am modelling:
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The above is based on the nearest example (Class 465/2 on the wrong bogies and the above is a Class 466 EMU, the difference is that a Class 465/2 has 4 cars (DMSO - TSO - TSOL - DMSO) and a Class 466 has 2 cars (DMSO - DTSOL) and different bogies.


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The above is the only photo of a Class 465/0 or Class 465/1 (the difference is the matter of build dates!) which shows the differences in bodyshells, particulary around the windows (biggest differences). I still got to make the cab, which is going to take err... Aaaaaaaaaaaaages.

The reason for the differences is that when British Rail/Network SouthEast ordered these trains in 1990 or there abouts, the order was split between 2 companies in order to keep the cost down, although they still reportibly cost £1,066,000 a carriage, whereas the more advanced and still in production Electrostar costs something like £750,000 a carriage. (Mk3 derrived trains from 1985 or so cost £660,000 or so, go figure). Around 50 were produced with ABB (Or British Rail Engineering Ltd before ABB - Class 465/0s) of York with a follow on order afterwards (Class 465/1) and another 50 around the same time at Metro-Cammell (Later GEC Alstom) at Washwood Heath, Birmingham. Then later, an order for 46 (IIRC) Class 466s were placed with GEC Alstom, hence the large amount of differences.
 
-W.I.P. Another intermodal car. 85ft flatcar. It can hold four 20ft containers or two 40ft containers or two 20ft containers and one 40ft container:

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-Joe
 
Now we're cookin' with FIAH!

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Yeah, it's a consolidation for now, though it wouldn't be hard to modify into a 2-6-0.
 
rztaylorjr21225 said:
In 3dsmax I export via .3ds format into Trainz Asset Creation Studio (GMAX) which accepts .3ds format via import function. Then using TACS I texture my mesh then import it into .im format for trainz.
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TACS?

That's a new one on me, care to spill the beans some?

EDIT : never mind, duh! I am in need of some serious sleep.
 
rztaylorjr21225 said:
In 3dsmax I export via .3ds format into Trainz Asset Creation Studio (GMAX) which accepts .3ds format via import function. Then using TACS I texture my mesh then import it into .im format for trainz.
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Ah.. I thought you had came up with something that avoids Gmax and or Blender.

Thanks,
JRT
 
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