Twice As Big???

[David111767]

OK ive been thinking about this for awhile...

We all know that the brush texture and topo radius are too big in TC and earlier versions...

so why can't we just make everything twice as big. For example:
Track would be twice as big as standard gauge but we could just rescale the locos and rolling stock to fit it. Buildings would be twice the size and so would everything else.


I know this would be a pain in the butt to rescale everything but its just an idea.

 

[ZapperJet]

Or you could just as easily subdivide the terrain mesh resolution by two, which is a feature of TRS09.

Cheerio,
John

 

[David111767]

Or you could just as easily subdivide the terrain by two, which is a feature of TRS09.

Cheerio,
John

i know that 09 has that feature
but im wondering why somebody didn't think of something like im thinking for UTC or a much earlier version of trainz

unless there is a horrible reason why this wouldn't work...

 

[narrowgauge]

It has been done before and it is called 2X scale. Someone in New Zealand made a map like that with rolling stock. Never on the DLS and he has left the forum some time back. I experimented with it, it works well and provided that you are making all your own content, it is very nice to work with. I did wonder at the time if I could pursuade the group to make the DHR in that scale but sanity prevailed

Provided that you don't go mad with more details, the polys are the same as normal scale.

If I can find them I will post some screenshots. My previous ones went away with the old forum.

Go ahead do it, I would like to see this used at last.

Zapper, changng the grid does not change the scale, changing the scale does change the grid.

Cheers

Narrowgauge

 

[David111767]

i think i will start on a few projects with this 2x scale thing and i would like to get a group started because doing this by myself would be very hard i think.

So if anybody would like to join tell me here.

 

[paulhobbs]

What is the point? In a few months you can have TS2009 and you won't need to build everything to the wrong scale.

Paul

 

[Tokkyu40]

It's not the wrong scale for what he's doing. It would double the effective resolution in TRS09, too.

Claude

 

[Euphod]

I suppose the snow flakes would look smaller too....

 

[gfisher]

It would cut his view distance in half.

 

[David111767]

I suppose the snow flakes would look smaller too....

YOUR RIGHT!!!
that would make the snow and rain seem less gigantic