Hallo @ all,
I am working on my locos and I am doing this parallel to other content creation and route building.
This includes also working at the EF4’s. I actually have done something at the 4-8-4 also. I updated the engine file and the config to meet the latest TS12 requirements to benefit from its possibilities as there is a much better sound and steam available. At the screen you cannot really see the results of my latest work but you can see the new steam which I adopted from the Blue Comet set. Also I did some texture optimization but still this process is not finished jet. I also updated the bogey arrangement.
A lot of time I need to spend on looking for textures. I already collected very nice photos from the bogeys suitable to work out much more realistic looking textures for the redesign of my Hiawatha Car set. It also requires some time to ask people about the permission to use such photos.
I am about to do the same at the Joe as well. There I also have to put several smaller texture files into one big file as this helps a lot to maintain performance. Unfortunately this also requires a lot of gmax – work which needs time. Eventually the texture will get a normal map as well and the loco needs some script features to handle the electrical cables depends on which other loco it is coupled to.
The most important thing is that I will introduce season change to all of my content – including the locos. This causes several changing as well and has to be done.
Also a redesign and a upgrade for season change is under way for of all of my buildings and structures and ground textures used at the Avery – Drexel route to be able to put 100% season change onto that route. This also includes the replacement of a lot of DLS content by assets created by me because these DLS stuff does not have season change. Now if you take a look into the CMP to check how many dependencies have been built into the Avery – Drexel route you probably can imagine that all this cannot be done until tomorrow.
But I am working hard at it - I with my days would have 36 hours.
The 4-8-4 pulls a Hiawatha Train through a fictional test route which I created to test my seasonal content updates. Unfortunately I did not capture a snowy screen as well, but except the train everything on that screen turns to have snow onto it if the snowline has been set to “0” in the Environmental Settings.
Your’s TUME
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