trainz blener tutorial

[NYCboy]

so far ive been learning to use blender,and ive gotten use to the basics,such as camera controls,moving shapes,adding shapes,changing shapes and creating scenes.im not very skilled in blender so i am still learning.but i have been looking for specific blender tutorials taht has to due with trainz,and i only found 1,but it doesnt seem to help.If you guys know any good blender trainz tutorial i will greatly accept it! any will do,locos,boxcars,coaches,etc. i really dont mind if tutorial is very long or very short,like i said any blender trainz tutorial will do,especially if it has to do with subway car modling. thanks!

 

[Stationbeem]

Try here.. Go through the categories.

http://trainzresources.com/

 

[bchester]

Check out this site:

http://www.44090digitalmodels.co.uk/

One of the best tutorials around specific to trainz. Until Paul released these, I couldn't make heads or tails of Blender.

Bricey

 

[johnwhelan]

There are basically two the first is here

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Trainz/Tutorial_for_Blender#Newcomers_start_here

the second is Paul Hobb's tutorial which has been mentioned already. The wikibook Trainz has a few more for specific topics in Blender.

Blender is very flexible and rich but you don't need to know most of it a small subset works fine. Create two cubes, bring the top edge together on the top one and widen it use the "n" key to get the size, dump a texture on it and you have a basic house. For wagons the sides and ends are narrow cubes, the bottom is a flat cube, a.bog0 and a.bog1 are where the bogeys are attached, reuse some one elses bogey by an entry in the configt.txt file. Probably the most difficult part is coming up with the texture for the UV mapping.

Cheerio John