Today I was looking through some backup disks for something not related to Trainz, and low and behold I found the version 2.0 and version 3.0 of my Enfield and Eastern route.
Version 2.0 of this route was my save to CDP just before I did my first big expansion and dates back to September 2004, having been started in January 2004 because I got TRS2004 in December 2003. After my initial laugh and chuckle because what I thought was "so realistic" back then, and looked so cool, looks quite hokey to me today. We tend to be our worst critics and I suppose I'm being hard on myself, but yeah the track laying is poor, it floats, road splines are blah, textures are wrong. They're not just bright, and always were, but wrong as in poorly scaled and so on. These things though can be updated and greatly improved with a bit of work.
The Version 3.0 is a nearly total rebuild and expansion, and was done in TRS2006. This version has some great stuff in it too which I like and my track laying is much better, though not as good as it is today. What I really liked here was a riverside line which ran out to a seaport. In TRS2006 through TRS2009 which is when this existed in it's height, you could never see across the river as the terrain would disappear. Now with T:ANE this not-so-distant shore stays in view in all its glory.
With this in mind, I see these old boys as something to use a parts for my current incarnation, which sadly has moved far from the original theme. There are some good parts in here that can be easily improved upon and brought up to my current standards and used for merging.
It was great to find the old routes on disc as it gave me some great memories as I went back to my early Trainz days while building the routes back in the Auran heyday.
Version 2.0 of this route was my save to CDP just before I did my first big expansion and dates back to September 2004, having been started in January 2004 because I got TRS2004 in December 2003. After my initial laugh and chuckle because what I thought was "so realistic" back then, and looked so cool, looks quite hokey to me today. We tend to be our worst critics and I suppose I'm being hard on myself, but yeah the track laying is poor, it floats, road splines are blah, textures are wrong. They're not just bright, and always were, but wrong as in poorly scaled and so on. These things though can be updated and greatly improved with a bit of work.
The Version 3.0 is a nearly total rebuild and expansion, and was done in TRS2006. This version has some great stuff in it too which I like and my track laying is much better, though not as good as it is today. What I really liked here was a riverside line which ran out to a seaport. In TRS2006 through TRS2009 which is when this existed in it's height, you could never see across the river as the terrain would disappear. Now with T:ANE this not-so-distant shore stays in view in all its glory.
With this in mind, I see these old boys as something to use a parts for my current incarnation, which sadly has moved far from the original theme. There are some good parts in here that can be easily improved upon and brought up to my current standards and used for merging.
It was great to find the old routes on disc as it gave me some great memories as I went back to my early Trainz days while building the routes back in the Auran heyday.