Monongahela & Western Pennsylvania in the Spring/Summer?

[ngc427]

Has anyone actually managed to make a spring/summertime version of JointedRail's Monongahela & Western Pennsylvania route? I've done several dozen attempts, but I've never found a version that looks good to me. In my most recent attempts, I've attempted to emulate the look of JR's Coal Country, but to no avail, it always ends up looking extremely strange, either too flat and plain, or overdoing it with way too much. Has anyone managed to do it successfully? Bonus points if its available so I can end this suffering of trying over and over

 

[JCitron]

Has anyone actually managed to make a spring/summertime version of JointedRail's Monongahela & Western Pennsylvania route? I've done several dozen attempts, but I've never found a version that looks good to me. In my most recent attempts, I've attempted to emulate the look of JR's Coal Country, but to no avail, it always ends up looking extremely strange, either too flat and plain, or overdoing it with way too much. Has anyone managed to do it successfully? Bonus points if its available so I can end this suffering of trying over and over

No luck for me either. The route can't be distributed unless you get permission from the original author.

I was going to attempt this again at another time and use other trees such as RMM's SpeedTrees instead of those billboards that really look terrible.

We have to remember that the route is quite old and the textures and everything else need to be updated to bring the route up to today's standards and bring the route close to Coal Country.

 

[HPL]

Trees and textures can be easily replaced, but winter things will remain (as frozen rivers, snow stacks...).

 

[HPL]

I was going to attempt this again at another time and use other trees such as RMM's SpeedTrees instead of those billboards that really look terrible.

Replacing trees makes the difference!

 

[johncarter]

These shots look fantastic! The Monongahela region really comes to life in the spring and summer great choice for a route. The lighting and greenery add so much atmosphere. Can’t wait to see more updates as you continue working on it!

 

[JCitron]

Trees and textures can be easily replaced, but winter things will remain (as frozen rivers, snow stacks...).

From what I remember, the snow is a spline surface just like ice. It's been a while since I've looked at the route and it's hard remembering the details.

 

[rwk]

I tried doing this to gfisher's Lamoille Valley route that I think was on the defunct USLW, and I had merged it with a Lamoille Valley DEM which merged perfectly, in order to have the rest of the route to the other end, I never built anything on the DEM part of the route, it used to be a long tourist railroad with chop nose Alco RS3 diesels and ex-Lackawanna open window coaches but it went out of business and most of it became a rail trail. It was in Vermont. The route was set in winter with snow and all and snow covered trees and snow covered tracks. I simply bulk replaced all the trees, tracks, and textures to make it summer. I wanted to create a fictional tourist railroad with steam locomotives and all. There are several stations and passing sidings on the route which can be used as boarding points or run around points for the train to go back to station of origin.

 

[JCitron]

I tried doing this to gfisher's Lamoille Valley route that I think was on the defunct USLW, and I had merged it with a Lamoille Valley DEM which merged perfectly, in order to have the rest of the route to the other end, I never built anything on the DEM part of the route, it used to be a long tourist railroad with chop nose Alco RS3 diesels and ex-Lackawanna open window coaches but it went out of business and most of it became a rail trail. It was in Vermont. The route was set in winter with snow and all and snow covered trees and snow covered tracks. I simply bulk replaced all the trees, tracks, and textures to make it summer. I wanted to create a fictional tourist railroad with steam locomotives and all. There are several stations and passing sidings on the route which can be used as boarding points or run around points for the train to go back to station of origin.

This route also uses seasonal track and textures. When I attempted the season change on this route, I found a baseboard that had sunk to the very bottom of whatever Trainz uses for height measurements creating a gigantic pit. I then tried to raise the terrain in the area and the route crashed TRS19 to the desktop.