Hallo,
while content creating for my Milwaukee Project I just decided to use my PCC Streetcar project as an tutorial in modeling.
As a result I added lots of details to my SFMTA car number 1052 including 3xLOD and the possibility to work out several more SFMTA cars (e.g. 1050, 1054, 1055, and 1059) using number 1052 as the basic version.
In addition to this I also created the SEPTA car 2168 which is now stored at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum been overhauled and restored into working condition making excursions possible.
Also the assets now have been arranged in the way to support mesh and texture library technique.
Still the cars need to get season change functionality applied to it as well as some script work is still required to get door open and closure as well as passenger changing working within the driver cab asset.
The season change will not cause major problems but the script creation will
Once, as I began creation of seasonal content I needed to see how the new content will perform in a route. Therefore I started creating a test layout rather than to use my Milwaukee Road Routs for testing. At the beginning there used to be only a few assets inside that test layout but in between it has grown up to a route that could stand for its own. It is a town situated at a mainline with an off coming branch. The town itself maintains a streetcar system now operated as a museum. The money comes from several industries as well as from tourists using marinas, campgrounds and fish grounds in the area.
Now I don’t use this route for testing anymore and it will eventually been developed to a playground for streetcars and heritage trains. These trains can nicely be operated at the branch line besides some freight trains hauling sand and gravel from its end to a cement plant near by the branch line station at the town.
As this route contains seasonal content exclusively I just called it “Season Town”.
At this point I would like to thank Dave Snow, John Metcalf and Ocemy for permission to create seasonal content from their original assets. Also thanks goes to Dinorius Redundicus for his nice seasonal content creations.
Your’s TUME