UK Screenshots (Hi Res Version)

[angelah]

SpeedTreez

Great news Angela! I hope your transition to the 'brave new world' is nice and smooth and I'll be interested to hear what you think about speedtrees!

Paul

Hello Paul,
From what I have seen of them and the comments on this forum, I won't be using that option. I don't normall model routes in the Amazon jungle!
Still, it has to be said that it was/is a brave attempt by Auran to "improve" trees - not sure they got it quite right though.
I tend to use just a small selection of JVC and most of the Greenery ones now. This helps frame rates for one and cuts down on downloading assets for two. Tree splines, wherever possible, have been removed. I was (I decided) being lazy using them. However, one cannot get away from spline objects so don't expect a spline free zone when (eventually) WCL2 gets to the DS. But that won't be for a while yet. I am still working towards where I finished before my PC went bust doing this replacing business. Once that is completed, I am approaching the China Clay works near Westbury, and Westbury station is revamped, then I can zoom back along the line to the south side where it's all bare DEM and start the real work again.
I have given up putting pictures on here, nobody ever says anything about them and it takes time and effort and me away from route building, so you will all just have to wait.... I think this may be my best so far, but only Trainzers can really decide that.

WCL2 will be in 2004.

Angela

 

[Mitchey]

Angela

Angela, your work never ceases to amaze me. Would you mind telling me what track your using there?

Thanks!
Mitch
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RVF400

 

[Wessex_Electric_Nutter]

Some quick reskin:

Now that reskin I think really does look a lot better than my orignal Regi Rail skin. As demostrated, my modelling maybe good, but the skins aren't. (I soo need a texture artist!)

 

[airtime]

I agree with you Wessex, they are great reskins, I do hope they get uploaded to the DLS sometime in the near future, they are very well made...

As for your own work, I think the content you make, is fantastic and very realistic, don't put yourself down, keep up the great work...

By the way, I love the fowler 0-4-0 Network Southeast, a fine piece of work...

Joe Airtime

 

[angelah]

Mitchey

Mitchey wrote "Angela, your work never ceases to amaze me. Would you mind telling me what track your using there? Thanks! Mitch."

Dear Mitch,
I am a little surprised at your comment there because that screenie is a real mess! I had torn assets apart so Mark could see what I was getting at. Still, nice of you to comment at all, very few do. They seem to find a station with a bit of track and a train of some sort plonked on bare boards warrents rapturous rewards.... I just don't get it. All it does is reduce the quality of work and fails to encourage people to try harder.
I do nothing special, other than use my eyes. I have 2 PC's, one higher-end for Trainz and another not so high end at all that is connected via a LAN to the Internet. This one is used solely for getting Google Earth on so I can see, at least from above, what the area is like I am working on. Not rocket science, is it?
The hard part is making my route look like Google Earth with the assets available. But luckily there are some really good assets now ready for downloading from the DS.

Tracks :- UK Track 141830:100088 and 100090 (in the screenie)
Also of course the great UK Bullhead 79563:1042:2 and 1062:1

Both look really good on UK routes. I prefer track that looks as if it has something holding the rails to the sleepers rather than them just being there by sheer willpower alone. Why don't folk put chairs on? A puzzle to me, but most tracks do not have them in Trainz. Fortunately in the real world they do!
This applies mainly to British rail, American is held on with just spikes, which seems to work quite well, but even those don't seem to be present.

Hope this helps.

Angela

 

[Bernard430]

Happy Birthday Stenston!

Hi all, some great screenshots all round

Are we aloud to celebrate birthdays here on the forum? 'Cause if we are, I would like to celebrate the 1st birthday of Stenston Junction. It's has changed A LOT, so here is a kind of 'life story', in pictures and text, of it from the day of its creation up until now.....

At the start, the station used very boring European platforms, was practically un coloured and had lots and lots of things that were just not needed, like factory's, extremely curved track and rubbish scenery.

These photos are from a file that I saved so that I had an original copy to keep, because in June 2009, I decided to change it completely....



This first version wasn't really what I wanted.

It had a massive arched roof and brick walls, which was all very well, but it didn't really fit its surroundings. It was far to big, for one thing, and platform one, which can be seen in the far left, wasn't under the roof.

So instead, I fiitted the station with new platforms, buildings, staircases and canopies and it turned out to what it is today, Stenston Junction V3

On its birthday, I decided to make some changes. Longer platforms to equip double Class 222's, a new walkpver, new buildings and a new train company- First Trans Pennine Express. This means the list of companies is now this:

Midland Mainline
Regional Railways (The Skegness Shuttle)
Valley Line Trains
Virgin Trains
First Trans Pennine Express

So, here are some picures of the station on its first brthday:

A very rare sighting- A Virgin HST at the station. In the background, an EWS Class 66 pulls an empty container train.

A birds eye view of the stations massive glass roof, and the 66 heading into the tunnels.

The 'First' ever First Trans Pennine Express Class 185 comes in from Manchester Piccadilly.

The train pulls onto Platform 2b.

Finnaly, a usually un seen part of the station. This is the station from the West, looking from the hlls over he tunnels.

Cheers,
Bernard

 

[Mick_Berg]

Mitchey wrote "Angela, your work never ceases to amaze me. Would you mind telling me what track your using there? Thanks! Mitch."

Dear Mitch,
I am a little surprised at your comment there because that screenie is a real mess! I had torn assets apart so Mark could see what I was getting at. Still, nice of you to comment at all, very few do. They seem to find a station with a bit of track and a train of some sort plonked on bare boards warrents rapturous rewards.... I just don't get it. All it does is reduce the quality of work and fails to encourage people to try harder............
The hard part is making my route look like Google Earth with the assets available. But luckily there are some really good assets now ready for downloading from the DS.
Hope this helps.

Angela

I agree very much with what you say about the screenshots posted here. Some are spectacular, (including yours, with the exception of that last one which was obviously made to prove a point!!) and most are mediocre at best, and many people don't seem to be able to see the difference.
I use Bing Maps rather than Google Earth, because the photography is much clearer, especially in Bird's Eye view. However the Street View function in Google Earth can be amazing for details, if you can get to what you want to see.
I think you will enjoy TS2010 greatly. The layers function is terrific but needs getting used to. Enjoy.
Mick Berg.

 

[2995Valliant]

Mick/Angela - I agree. I think it stems from the fact that many of the posters are loco enthusiasts, rather than railway enthusiasts. The loco matters, and possibly the consist, but the track is just there for it to run on. Steam era seems to be largely unappreciated too, which is why on the rare occasions I do post, it's in the Pre-BR blue thread.

I'm sure there's many more than just me who always enjoy looking at your screenies Angelah , but don't comment because they don't have any screenies of their own that are worthy of posting.

The other thing that holds me back is that I'm always worried there'll be something in a screenie that I've long ago modified for personal use which will upset the original creator.

Anthony

 

[marky7890]

Angela I enjoy viewing your posts, and also other posters whos routes are good quality and detail.
I try and make my sceenshots look the best I can, and don't post them till im 100% happy with them, and that the area is finished. I personally am more of a railway enthusiast, and like to look up history of an area, and why things are as they are, which also helps with my route building. And I want the layout and scenery around the track as accurate as possible. (This is also why I decided to use actual gradients). But I do also like locos/units, and place actual trains that run those services in real life.

I also have Google Earth open on my laptop whilst building in Trainz on my Desktop, as well as photo websites like fotopic and flickr for placing scenery near the track.

Mark

 

[kimmy]

great pics all weldone

regards jay

 

[paul502]

A few mediocre shots from me, route still W I P. I have a long way to go to match the talents of most on this thread

 

[angelah]

Good shots

Angela I enjoy viewing your posts, and also other posters whos routes are good quality and detail.
I try and make my sceenshots look the best I can, and don't post them till im 100% happy with them, and that the area is finished. I personally am more of a railway enthusiast, and like to look up history of an area, and why things are as they are, which also helps with my route building. And I want the layout and scenery around the track as accurate as possible. (This is also why I decided to use actual gradients). But I do also like locos/units, and place actual trains that run those services in real life.

I also have Google Earth open on my laptop whilst building in Trainz on my Desktop, as well as photo websites like fotopic and flickr for placing scenery near the track.

Mark

Mark, your shots are excellent, I always enjoy looking at them. You have plainly spent time and effort and that is appreciated.
When I go out on my disability buggy the ground isn't all dark grey, flat and have long yellow lines running across it forming squares.
It has a road, a pavement, front gardens of houses and of course the houses and shops. There's a bus garage with asphalt and a school. In fact every area of the ground is covered in something, maybe grass or weeds with trees and bushes, but something. Even a station has ballast under the tracks! How long does it take to pop some ballast down?
And you work like me, two computers, GE and a DEM, so your ground is close to the real thing. You have been out and looked at what a railway is like, even though you have been busy with exams, I cannot so have to rely on photos in books, OS maps and GE.
What I am saying is that people have asked Auran for a better program which they seem to have at last supplied in 2010 and so much higher detail is possible. But what is the point if the folk only want tracks, buildings and bare boards? We should always challenge ourselves for better results. You do and have progressed in leaps and bounds because of it, and you haven't been using Trainz all that long either, considering you have also mastered gmax at the same time as your studies. You have been an example to us all, and rightly so, you show what can be done with the program just as I try to. But it takes time, effort and thought.
Well done Mark, keep those screenies coming, they make my day.

Bless you,

Angela

 

[tardis626]

they make my day.

Bless you,

Angela

Aww, that post made my day, who said that there is no forum spirit anymore?

 

[Davie_UCF]

Angela, you will be happy to know track on TS10 does have chairs..

I though am still using MP track as its what matches my junctions until i become less lazy.

Heres a shot from earlier while doing some shunting in my town of Iona which has a small port along with some fisheries.. (I hate how JPG compression ruins a perfectly sharp shot!)

And a shot from TS10 on the S&C.
I believe this shows chairs?

I too don't post screenies often if at all, for the same reasons really, along with i'm lazy and I don't use trainz a lot, I go through spurts of it so thats why my route has been on the go since just before TS07 (i think) and is still not finished.. (when is a route ever finished ).
Anyway yes, I find the quality of other peoples routes and screenshots to be outstanding a lot of the time... especially Marks of course, but thats mainly because its great to watch a prototypical route come to life that you know and can regconise with the hope of one day having a go on it

 

[nexusdj]

Great shots all

 

[hope5]

class 221 voyger passes seed parkway station (my new fictinol 1 map piece route)
(note i have installed overhead wires recently so i can run my small collection of electric locos)

 

[electra]

 

[Mitchey]

(snip)This applies mainly to British rail, American is held on with just spikes, which seems to work quite well, but even those don't seem to be present.

Hope this helps.

Angela

Angela, Thank you for your speedy reply. Your point on track is very true, only one problem, you forgot Australia!! I do understand your point about your recent screenshot, but your work is impressive, and the fields in the background of your shot are really nice too.

Your point on screenshots is also very good. I strive to create routes which are scenically pleasing to run trains on, but it seems that usually the scenery is overlooked because the trains, locos and/or rolling stock have been seen before... even the large communty that reads the Australian Screenshots thread seems to overlook the scenery, though there are some very very nice people there too.

Thanks Angela,
I'll be sure to download those tracks when my laptop comes back from repair and I don't have to use my dads...
God Bless
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FERRARI 250 TR 61 SPYDER FANTUZZI SPECIFICATIONS

 

[marky7890]

Great shots all!

Some from the DB Schenker St Blazey T&RS Depot, Just round the bend from Par, and at the bottom of the Newquay Branch. This used to be full of locos and wagons years ago, now thats sadly just a memory.

Looking south, the Newquay branch is in the foreground, which curves round to connect to the mainline at Par.

From the Sidings to the North of the depot.

St Blazey Station, which was opened by the Cornwall Mineral Railway, and closed in 1925. Both platforms are still intact, and the Signal box is still used.

The old turntable and roundhouse, the latter are now industrial units and are no longer part of the depot.

The Engine shed and Fuel lane.

A Class 66 passes the depot on a China Clay run from Fowey Docks to Goonbarrow, on the Newquay Branch.

A Class 150 passes on a Newquay - Par service.

I would like to thank Chrisaw for creating quite a few custom Semaphore signals for me for use in this route.

Mark

 

[lewisner]

In my Malton & Driffield Railway route a southbound J39 approaches Wharram station. The watertank is a temporary bodge job till I can get something better - the real tank still exists, though unused since 1958. http://www.flickr.com/photos/39938921@N02/4401832022/sizes/l/in/set-72157623416740495/