Trackside Observer

I have always found the 4 (leap off train) to be great for train spotting. I can then "scoot around" a route if I want to ....... say to get ahead of the train and watch it going over a bridge etc.). I also use the 2 (leap back on). Also useful for me is the ability to change trains. Often I will be riding a train and leap off to catch a train going someplace else. At one point I can leap off straight into a pub............... but haven't managed to get it to serve real beer yet!

Just some thoughts!

:)

Colin.
 
Red Lantern Pub

cascaderailroad said:
There Ya' go...that "Train Watcher" asset downloads great...and the low angle cab view is really cool...If it had a signalmans red lantern held out at arms length, and a dirty yardworkers clothes, and a striped engineers hat, that it would be even better looking. I think mines gonna get arrested for trespassing on RR tracks soon !

I also downloaded the "Walkers" animated pedestrians...lol...they are hillariously funny looking in animation and are hound dawg ugly, but they have no cab view. I have a bunch of them walking down the center of the NEC mainline at present...not a safe practice at all !
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Workin on your RR worker with a lantern, even made a lantern by itself to set at ground or on another object. Can even send it along with your train to what everything else go by! Will be ready in a short! Even changed to first character abit to look better. But I thionk to change the names to something with "cam" in the title, got any suggestions? The beer thing I got to work on alittle yet!:cool:
 
"Red Lantern Pub"

There is a "Red Lantern Tavern Pub" right near the CSX rail line in Sharron Hill PA. I will see if I can post a photo...just for fun:cool:

Suggestions for a name: "Driveable Railfan Cam", or "Driveable Signalman/Railyard Worker Cam"
 
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Pubs all-a-round

cascaderailroad said:
There is a "Red Lantern Tavern Pub" right near the CSX rail line in Sharron Hill PA. I will see if I can post a photo...just for fun:cool:

Suggestions for a name: "Driveable Railfan Cam", or "Driveable Signalman/Railyard Worker Cam"
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Think there one in Alaska too if I remember right. As for the name, these are really not meant to be driven, but is a good idea to group as first name basis, maybe "movable"?
Trackside pedestrian/signalman/lantern camera
 
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Nobody seems to have mentioned the three camera views from -Basti- which are on the DLS. They are kind turntable and can be located anywhere. Clicking on one and selecting view 1 you get a view from that point that can be rotated, panned and zoomed. In surveyor they show up as green squares but are invisible in Driver so you need to put a scenic item there so you know where to click. I find them very useful and have used them for platform, signalbox and looking down from the top of a building views.
 
DLS Arrrgh !

I found 5 camera items under -Basti-...Which is better...the descriptions of assets on DLS are so vague and lacking, and sometimes don't make much sence at all...Do I need all 5 to get it to work ?

Why does DLS have multiple items that are seemingly redundant duplicates ?
 
Cameras

I tested them both and the views look great from both cameras !
I was thinking of altering the striped clothes and hat (w/no bill) color, for another color, like a dirty oilstained denim jacket and hat, in "Edit in Explorer", as presently he sort of looks like a rouge escaped convict that has also aquired a (Kelly Green color) RR lantern.:cool:

There is a "signalman w/lantern" on DLS that has rugged US RR worker type clothes, but has no camera.

Do I have your permission to alter the striped shirt & hat to oilstained denim, and green lantern bodycolor to a rusty weathered gray/black color, in Edit In Explorer", and to post screenshots of these alterations of your signalman & lantern camera's in the Forum ?
 
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Colors

cascaderailroad said:
I tested them both and the views look great from both cameras !
I was thinking of altering the striped clothes and hat (w/no bill) color, for another color, like a dirty oilstained denim jacket and hat, in "Edit in Explorer", as presently he sort of looks like a rouge escaped convict that has also aquired a (Kelly Green color) RR lantern.:cool:

There is a "signalman w/lantern" on DLS that has rugged US RR worker type clothes, but has no camera.

Do I have your permission to alter the striped shirt & hat to oilstained denim, and green lantern bodycolor to a rusty weathered gray/black color, in Edit In Explorer", and to post screenshots of these alterations of your signalman & lantern camera's in the Forum ?
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Be my guest with color test, you can send the texture to me and I will change to mesh here too! I thought the hat looked funny for some reason, now I know what! I'll fix the brim!
 
In case this hasn't been said already, there's a person downloadable somewhere, and he has a cabview. Stick him on the invisible track, set the weather to 'stormy' and off you go!
 
Signal Man with Lantern

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Yours is getting better...but the signal man On DLS looks more rugged.
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My attempt at changing the lantern color and clothes, but the face has to be lightened also, as I altered the skin tone.

Neither of these have a very bright lantern. Perhaps a much brighter (bright as a trackside signal) corona
 
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Corona

Show me where to find the corona you talkin about and I'll add it. I see the cap has to fixed some more still too!
Ya know, I could stack several coronas in a line out from the lens. It may then look like one light stretching out.
 
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cascaderailroad said:
I found 5 camera items under -Basti-...Which is better...the descriptions of assets on DLS are so vague and lacking, and sometimes don't make much sence at all...Do I need all 5 to get it to work ?

Why does DLS have multiple items that are seemingly redundant duplicates ?
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I think one item is an obsoleted interior. There are three cameras plus the interior view. I tend to use the big one as the base is larger and easier to click on. I haven't really tried the other two so don't know if they have any particular advantages under certain circumstances.
 
Sorry for the hi-jacking..."We now return you to your regularly schedualed program"..

You can lay BNSF Invisatrack, and place any loco on the invisatrack ... and by adding the line: -freeintcam in your Trainzoptions file you can roam about outside the cab and railfan your Trainz.
 
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Hello Kent,

Haven't seen you lately, but was wondering if you could create (or update) your AC MWM Train Watcher to be compatible with TS2010?

Thanks

Dave Snow
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