Help with texturing and modeling

[Railroadsleepers]

Hey ya'll, I am working on a project that involves the 6-8-6 S2 Turbine. But before I can actually start working on it, I need to know a few things. 1) I would like to create my own custom smoke script (so how would I go about doing that?) and 2) I would also like to know how I can texture the model so it looks good... almost like lilb's Southern Pacific Daylight #4449(I would post a picture but I'm having a little trouble getting it to work)(I noticed that when I opened up the .tga files, the opacity was turned down really low, so I don't know if that's how you do it or not). So if anyone can answer these questions or give me any sort of tips that would be really great! Thanks

 

[whitepass]

That is a bad way to start, try is just get a box into Trainz first.

 

[Railroadsleepers]

I'm sorry I don't understand what you mean Was I rude when I was asking? Or was the post confusing?

 

[whitepass]

Over the last 13 years I have seen a lot of new people try to start with a steam loco first and 95% never get done. It is a lot of work, you need to know a lot, and some just can not "get" 3D modeling. Start by making a box and a texture, UV the texture to the box, export to an .im, make a config.txt, and get it into Trainz with no errors or warnings. The S2 would take a year to make.

 

[Railroadsleepers]

Ohhh ok Now I get it I'll try that and see how it works Thanks!