The Illinois Railway Museum Route
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A Preview of what we've been working on. 
I would show more but I have to leave for work now so only a small update today. More to come soon.
Caboose was skinned by another new member of my team (benjaminw) (With some help by Trainboi1 with Fonts) Glad to have him on board. This caboose has a bogy modification so I will have to contact the owner of the trucks before I can release it.
I think this will be the first ever release of a North Shore Line piece since the 06 era.
I would show more but I have to leave for work now so only a small update today. More to come soon.
Caboose was skinned by another new member of my team (benjaminw) (With some help by Trainboi1 with Fonts) Glad to have him on board. This caboose has a bogy modification so I will have to contact the owner of the trucks before I can release it.
I think this will be the first ever release of a North Shore Line piece since the 06 era.
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MeowRailroad
CKRail
A few tips I have are to use different grass textures and different roads.
jacksonbarno
Alco Spoken Here
Hey Matt, just a heads up, I don't have permission (or the desire, since they're extremely old skins of mine) to release the cabooses I did, and I would suppose the same for any skins on Sandman2's stuff since his email always bounces (a bunch of us have tried asking), so I'd advise you to find another caboose model.
Aside from that, I'd say those coaches do need a bit of work, such as weathering, detail, proper shading, et cetera. Try to not rely on the bump map as much since that only shows up in the light and not in shadows. I'd say the Lackawanna coaches need a good bit of work too, especially with that wood texture. Something else seems off about the skins, although I can't pinpoint it. It's a good start but all around I think that they need some tlc.
Those lightweight skins are decent, but you should focus on the aforementioned improvements, as well as color matching, correct fonts, the resolution (which I can see is a big issue), et cetera. Overall, I'd just say keep trying at it until you get something decent.
Aside from that, I'd say those coaches do need a bit of work, such as weathering, detail, proper shading, et cetera. Try to not rely on the bump map as much since that only shows up in the light and not in shadows. I'd say the Lackawanna coaches need a good bit of work too, especially with that wood texture. Something else seems off about the skins, although I can't pinpoint it. It's a good start but all around I think that they need some tlc.
Those lightweight skins are decent, but you should focus on the aforementioned improvements, as well as color matching, correct fonts, the resolution (which I can see is a big issue), et cetera. Overall, I'd just say keep trying at it until you get something decent.
Hey Matt, just a heads up, I don't have permission (or the desire, since they're extremely old skins of mine) to release the cabooses I did, and I would suppose the same for any skins on Sandman2's stuff since his email always bounces (a bunch of us have tried asking), so I'd advise you to find another caboose model.
Aside from that, I'd say those coaches do need a bit of work, such as weathering, detail, proper shading, et cetera. Try to not rely on the bump map as much since that only shows up in the light and not in shadows. I'd say the Lackawanna coaches need a good bit of work too, especially with that wood texture. Something else seems off about the skins, although I can't pinpoint it. It's a good start but all around I think that they need some tlc.
Those lightweight skins are decent, but you should focus on the aforementioned improvements, as well as color matching, correct fonts, the resolution (which I can see is a big issue), et cetera. Overall, I'd just say keep trying at it until you get something decent.
You say you can't reach him, but he just gave me permission today to release my reskin of his caboose. (which is waiting for final Auran approval) I will add a pic
P.S. I am glad to see my fix for the Y6b works well.
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chickenjoe
Allegheny Northern RR
Do you mean ground shadows? If so, can you tell me how to add a ground shadow?
Not much to report today but I am working on finishing up reskins on passenger cars with Joe, and some freight cars with Ben, waiting on permission from certain content creators to give the green light to release these reskins, lots of research and and something very special that will make my route special that (I hope) will even want to make the JR guys drool over for this route to be finished. In the meantime I found this documentary that truly explains why I love this museum so much with a heart of gold.
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