How Could This Be Replicated In TRS2004?

[Ian_Coleman]

I once saw some amazing scenery that I would like to replicate in TRS2004.
It was many years ago, and I think it was in Tenerife, but after all this time, I can't be sure.
It is difficult to describe but I'll do my best!

Imagine a train running parallel to the ground but very high up on the side of a mountain. In many places the rock above the track overhung the track completely obscuring the train, as the overhang reached down to the level of the track.

From the point of view of a passenger on the train, it must have been like travelling through a long tunnel with windows on one side,which gave views of the plain far below.

I would like to make something like that, but I don't think Surveyor is up to it.

Does anyone have any ideas on how it might be done?

Ian

 

[pramsden]

The only way that occurs to me is to make the scenery as an object or series of objects in Gmax.

Peter Ramsden

 

[xcandiottix]

perhaps use an existing tunnel spline but redo the texture with an alpha channel 'window'?

 

[Tokkyu40]

I know there are cliff splines. Are there any overhang splines?
The closest thing I know of to the effect described would be the snow sheds.

Claude

 

[louvain]

perhaps use an existing tunnel spline but redo the texture with an alpha channel 'window'?

This has got to be the answer :wave:

 

[Ian_Coleman]

You've lost me! What's an alpha channel window?

Ian

 

[john259]

The alpha channel controls how transparent something is. So in the same way as rolling stock can have transparent windows, a tunnel could theoretically have a transparent side and thereby appear to be an overhang. Whether this can be achieved in practice, and whether anyone has actually done it, I don't know. It's a very clever idea.

John

 

[pramsden]

I don't actually think this will work - tried it very quickly, and it doesn't seem that you can make a tunnel protrude from a hillside - it doesn't wrap the terrain around itself as seen from the outside, but just cuts through it. Maybe there are tunnels that function differently from the one I tried (first one on the 2004 built-in list). I hope so; that would be fun to play with.

 

[Tokkyu40]

You would have to make a new item to get a tunnel with a "window". I think it would be better to make a cliff face with the road bed cut into it as a bridge item or spline and just leave it open on one side. I think alpha textures would just be an unnecessary complexity for something like this.

Claude