Iguodala Metro

[cascaderailroad]

Looks like a never ending array of rental garage storage box's, I'd hate to live in that developement !

With nothing but long, never ending, boring, straight tangents of tracks, with 2000 foot long station platforms, three genus of trees, and a single ground texture resembling golfcourse, and a single ballast texture, with skyscrapers plunked down on the grass ... You have no need to fear this:

I don't want backgrounds. I want buildings. Backgrounds will only degrade the realism of the route. I'll look for downtown buildings but I'm no longer in a downtown/midtown setting.

I'd like to offer constructive criticism, and help you ... but it seems that you keep making the exact same mistakes, over and over again, and the real world does not look like this at all.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Altoona_Fairview1.jpg

 

[Kris94]

Looks like a never ending array of rental garage storage box's, I'd hate to live in that developement !

With nothing but long, never ending, boring, straight tangents of tracks, with 2000 foot long station platforms, three genus of trees, and a single ground texture resembling golfcourse, and a single ballast texture, with skyscrapers plunked down on the grass ... You have no need to fear this:

I'd like to offer constructive criticism, and help you ... but it seems that you keep making the exact same mistakes, over and over again, and the real world does not look like this at all.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Altoona_Fairview1.jpg

​Well heck I guess it's back to the drawing board again.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I tell you what, if you still have TRS2006 on your PC, if you start a route, and send the TRS2006 CDP to me ... I will rework it ... and I send it back to you, to help you out.

I can not open any 09, 10, 12 routes.

The way I lay a route, is in my head while I dream at night ... then I lay all the straights ... then I connect them with prototypical curves ... I don't place buildings, nor grass, nor textures ... and I concentrate on trackwork, on blank gray baseboards ... later on I can always add all the fluff and filler.

Do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall ... Practice, Practice, Practice ... I will help you out.

Cascaderailroad is sick and tired (ever notice that tired, always follows sick) of being a big fat meanie (but I absolutely refuse to lose weight) !

I gotz chicken legs at Shoprite for 59 cents a pound, and lamb shoulder chops for $2.99 a pound, 16 almost expired yuckerts for 25 cents each, 38 bananas at 49 cents per pound, and a gallon of milk at 40% off (expires on Nov 1), a 1/2 gal vanilla ice cream for $1.49 ... Fire up oven, and the blender ! ... Red Robin ...YUM !

 

[Kris94]

Hert where'd you get those houses from?

 

[hert]

Hert where'd you get those houses from?

There on the DLS. Brick House

 

[Kris94]

Man I don't see why I always struggle when it comes to placing buildings.

 

[hert]

Man I don't see why I always struggle when it comes to placing buildings.

Its most likely due to not laying out roads very well. If you layout roads the buildings usually fall into place nicely.

 

[Kris94]

How should I lay out the roads?

 

[nicky9499]

Do you know how to get to Carnegie Hall ... Practice, Practice, Practice ... I will help you out.

Cascaderailroad is sick and tired (ever notice that tired, always follows sick) of being a big fat meanie (but I absolutely refuse to lose weight) !

I gotz chicken legs at Shoprite for 59 cents a pound, and lamb shoulder chops for $2.99 a pound, 16 almost expired yuckerts for 25 cents each, 38 bananas at 49 cents per pound, and a gallon of milk at 40% off (expires on Nov 1), a 1/2 gal vanilla ice cream for $1.49 ... Fire up oven, and the blender ! ... Red Robin ...YUM !

Fantastic advice Cascade. Clear, concise, insightful and inspiring words of wisdom and constructive criticism.

Kris. Stop building first, take a pencil and paper and draw out what city you'd like to build. Consider the following:

Gradients, hills, elevation differences; roads, canals, metro lines, going over or under the railroad?
Stations and their relation to the surroundings; above or under ground, island, bay or side platforms?
Trackwork; sidings, industries, crossovers? Level crossings, bridges, tunnels?

Think small and compact first. The last thing you want is huge swathes of nothingness (like what you currently have). Here's a small example: http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/...F74A7AC-2789-0000049B969A9260_zps393dc958.jpg

It's always easier to plan on paper than in Surveyor.

 

[JackClare1995]

I love that plan, Nicky. Very concise yet so detailed! I may have to adopt this technique too, rather than just building and building and having no goal. I think that's why I'm terrible at staying motivated when building :hehe:

 

[Kris94]

Ok, here's my issue, it's having to fill the entire baseboard with buildings but making it look realistic. I don't think I want to fill the entire baseboard up though but I still want it to look good. What are your guys thoughts?

 

[hert]

Ok, here's my issue, it's having to fill the entire baseboard with buildings but making it look realistic. I don't think I want to fill the entire baseboard up though but I still want it to look good. What are your guys thoughts?

if you do it right you dont need to fill the entire baseboards. You layer the builidngs smaller near the track taller and bigger buildings behind to make it appear that theres more then there is.

 

[Kris94]

if you do it right you dont need to fill the entire baseboards. You layer the builidngs smaller near the track taller and bigger buildings behind to make it appear that theres more then there is.

Like this?

 

[nicky9499]

Ok, here's my issue, it's having to fill the entire baseboard with buildings but making it look realistic. I don't think I want to fill the entire baseboard up though but I still want it to look good. What are your guys thoughts?

No Kris, I'll explain it to you again. When building a route you're creating an illusion of a busy city or large town whatever, without actually building all of it. Doing so would a) take literally forever and b) kill all of the poor framerates. When you design with a pen and paper, start with the tracks first, then work outwards with the detail but don't go far. Oftentimes you'll find you only need a portion of the baseboard to create a scene.

Here, there's at most 3 rows of buildings from the tracks.

Yet if we go to ground level it looks like a sizeable town. Even here we're fairly high up and it still looks the part.

One of the many sly tricks you can use.

Again, you don't have to fill up the whole baseboard, just enough to create an illusion.

 

[Kris94]

Well yes, now I get it. At first I was thinking I had to cover the entire baseboard. But that should make my task so much easier.

 

[Kris94]

Nick where can I find some of those buildings? Download Station?

 

[Kris94]

 

[John514]

You`re getting there! Try the DS house splines, just to make some variety in house design.

 

[Kris94]

 

[Southern1581]

I'd suggest bringing the buildings a bit closer to the tracks, and changing that brown ballast to match the grey ballast you have better.