I'm in a sort of reflective mood today. Happy New Year, folks - 2018 is now coming up on us, so hey, that's pretty cool.
2017 hasn't been the most productive year in terms of Trainz, but in terms of actually advancing my hobbies and personal life, it's certainly been a good year. At this point, the only real negatives to list are Trainz/forum drama and all that nonsense. Been quite a time, huh?
Little more of a longer talk in this regard can be found here: https://smworks.weebly.com/blog--misc/happy-holidays-happy-new-year-end-of-2017
3400 and 3402 are ex-MILW SW1s that are split up and used along the electrified division to do yard work, mostly moving electrics under the wires when necessary. 3402 is in worse condition, and that rust covered roof and fading numbers accentuates that fact as it prepares to drag E75 and (unpictured) E78 out under the catenary wire. Summer, 1996.
So, because I'm still feeling alright about 2017 and I realize I've not done much work in Trainz in general, I'm gonna pledge myself to actually finish the Silver Lines V2 route and have it released in the next month or two. You'll need to make sure I don't waste all my free time writing some ridiculous story...
The route won't be as big as I would've probably made it before setting this deadline, but that's okay. I know I'm definitely not going to finish much more of it, anyways. Basically, I'll clean up and finish up the town and railyard, suitably close off that part of the route, and finish up the rest of the scenery, including going back to the start of the route and adding some kind of simple destination. It's not a big route now by any means, but that's just fine with me.
It'll be a TS12 release, but I'll probably try and get a TANE version going - biggest problem is the trees, as usual, as I have yet to see a tree set that satisfies me. SP2 or SP2HF1? I have SP2 now and to say I'm unsatisfied is the greatest understatement known to mankind, haha! But SP2HF1 seems to be a bug riddled mess, even more so than plain 2, so I don't know. At least TSW is fun!
Cheers,
SM
2017 hasn't been the most productive year in terms of Trainz, but in terms of actually advancing my hobbies and personal life, it's certainly been a good year. At this point, the only real negatives to list are Trainz/forum drama and all that nonsense. Been quite a time, huh?
Little more of a longer talk in this regard can be found here: https://smworks.weebly.com/blog--misc/happy-holidays-happy-new-year-end-of-2017
3400 and 3402 are ex-MILW SW1s that are split up and used along the electrified division to do yard work, mostly moving electrics under the wires when necessary. 3402 is in worse condition, and that rust covered roof and fading numbers accentuates that fact as it prepares to drag E75 and (unpictured) E78 out under the catenary wire. Summer, 1996.
So, because I'm still feeling alright about 2017 and I realize I've not done much work in Trainz in general, I'm gonna pledge myself to actually finish the Silver Lines V2 route and have it released in the next month or two. You'll need to make sure I don't waste all my free time writing some ridiculous story...
The route won't be as big as I would've probably made it before setting this deadline, but that's okay. I know I'm definitely not going to finish much more of it, anyways. Basically, I'll clean up and finish up the town and railyard, suitably close off that part of the route, and finish up the rest of the scenery, including going back to the start of the route and adding some kind of simple destination. It's not a big route now by any means, but that's just fine with me.
It'll be a TS12 release, but I'll probably try and get a TANE version going - biggest problem is the trees, as usual, as I have yet to see a tree set that satisfies me. SP2 or SP2HF1? I have SP2 now and to say I'm unsatisfied is the greatest understatement known to mankind, haha! But SP2HF1 seems to be a bug riddled mess, even more so than plain 2, so I don't know. At least TSW is fun!
Cheers,
SM
