Show off your reskins!
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Trainmaster189
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I agree!
I decided to make the change because I didn't like the original size which has been in use since the original Digital Roundhouse AC44's. It's a shame that these engines don't have ARN yet (which I think it would be far better than having 20 different engines with different numbers of the same roadname or livery), but I do like how decent they were before the Dash 9s/AC44s from Sporbust, SRS, and Jointed Rail. I have six of these fictional/alternate Conrail AC44's made so far and all of them have the updated texture now.
I decided to make the change because I didn't like the original size which has been in use since the original Digital Roundhouse AC44's. It's a shame that these engines don't have ARN yet (which I think it would be far better than having 20 different engines with different numbers of the same roadname or livery), but I do like how decent they were before the Dash 9s/AC44s from Sporbust, SRS, and Jointed Rail. I have six of these fictional/alternate Conrail AC44's made so far and all of them have the updated texture now.
Trainmaster189
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Ok!
I got something else to show next.
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Trainmaster189
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I think these should've been made several years ago, but I personally think they would make somewhat good AI models.
cascaderailroad
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It looks like the Conrail blue color, is a allot too florescent, and allot too light blue
Trainmaster189
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I did look up the actual Conrail blue before I made the original Conrail AC44 textures.
Trainmaster189
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Back to my Conrail AC44 reskin project, so what do you guys think of them now?
There's a few problems with finding the "correct" color. First off most railroads didn't exactly have 1 specific shade of paint they used, the tone would tweak over the years & from shop to shop depending on all sorts of things.
Secondly, and especially with older railroads, finding the colors online is not exactly easy; as most there is a lot of variations from the color database websites depending on where they got their color from.
Thirdly, and specifically for Trainz, Trainz by default has a higher gama then your normal computer operating. So one needs to compensate for that. There are two options; you can darken the gama in game, but then everything else you have will be darker, or you can darken your paint scheme to compensate, which is what most people do.
On a related note, it's good practice when reskining to never use pure white & pure black fyi.
Your model is still way to blue, here is RRMOD's 80MAC for comparison: http://www.rrmods.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sd80cr.jpg You can see it's more of a grey-blue & a fair bit duller. As for the white, the number board background (because it doesn't actually appear that way in game) is pure white, whereas the white paint on the cab around the numberboard has been darkened.
peter
Trainmaster189
Active member
Thanks!
There's a lot of inaccurate liveries/paint schemes that others made over the years, especially back in the Trainz 2004/2006 days. I do have the RRMods SD80MAC, but I just looked up "Conrail Blue" on Google images. The original Conrail blue I painted my AC44 in was from the Conrail Historical Society which they have a page for modelers which didn't look right in Trainz.
I just changed the shade of blue to this now and it's similar to some Conrail repaints on the DLS - http://www.art-paints.com/Paints/Enamel/Floquil/Conrail-Blue/Conrail-Blue.html
The question one has to ask one's self when using an source like that is: Where did they get the color from and how certain are you that it's accurate?
Personally I often get my own colors from photographs, but it's not an easy thing to do correctly. You have to spend hours searching the web for a collection of well lit, decent quality, properly toned images. Then using the average eyedropper get the color code from each image. Average them out, finally you have to adjust for the in-game lighting (gamma). This last step is a bit of trial & error (it's not a straight adding of black, you need to adjust the tone so that you aren't dulling the colors, just darkening them.)
peter
Trainmaster189
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I think they're pretty much ok and I don't really care about adjusting the gamma right now. Let's just move on from this.
scarecrow108
Rookie Trainz-gineer
Oh my sweet jesus! C&O/CSX grafitti'd SD70ACe!
joshmeister
Proud Railfurz Member
Kinda falling into a "Lack of Interest" state in working on my custom route so I spent 2 hours making this thing. I like it...
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I'd say its about 70ish% complete at this point.
