Looking for pipes (TRS19)

I have FMA Heat series and I love how they work. There are "buildings" that are corners and risers and splines that ATTACH for fiddless running of pipes in industry scenes.

But they are looking aged now with fuzzy textures, plus I'm looking for a variety to choose from.

I've had a poke around the DLS, but so far no luck.

I'm looking for suggestions for other pipes that work similarly. Especially the attaching splines part.

In CM setup a search filter with

Author = Dinorius_Redundicus
Name = Pipe

there are spline sections and end connectors (e.g. bends) in a variety of widths in both metal and rusty.

Yes, I did those, but the end pieces don’t auto-connect to the splines (I will need to study how the FMA pipes work).

Also being TANE assets, the metal textures look as I wanted them to in TANE, but TRS19 fails to reproduce the important specular sheen, so they look a bit “flat” or non-metallic even though the normal map bumps still work.

Samplair and vendel both have "heating pipes" that look to be routable and connectable, but I honestly haven't tried them.

Dinorius_Redundicus said:

but TRS19 fails to reproduce the important specular sheen, so they look a bit “flat” or non-metallic even though the normal map bumps still work.

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True, but I only use the "rusty" variants so the metallic sheen is unimportant.

Ditto, and if they did the connect thing they would be my goto. Trying to align items like that makes me want to slowly push razor blades into my eyes.

I have enough trouble with .9 then .1 then .9 then .1 when rotating things. (Yes, even with modifier keys)

Forester1 said:

Samplair and vendel both have "heating pipes" that look to be routable and connectable, but I honestly haven't tried them.

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Vendel made FMA which I have.

Samplaire turns up nothing.

Dinorius_Redundicus said:

Yes, I did those, but the end pieces don’t auto-connect to the splines (I will need to study how the FMA pipes work).

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The ends are configed as "fixed track" and have a.splineX attachment points.

The spline origin connects to the attachment point, so in the case of FMA the spline model are +Z but the ends have the attachments at Z=0 while the mode is also +Z so it visibly lines up. Vendel also made high and low pipe splines and riser parts to join them, as well as "turn downs" that make it appear the pipe goes underground.

These are by Samplaire. These may be similar to vendel's. All are version 4.6:

<kuid2:132952:142115:3> SAM Heating Pipes BASE2
<kuid:132952:142107> SAM Heating Pipes BASE1
<kuid2:132952:101485:1> SAM Heating Pipes mesh library
<kuid2:132952:142117:3> SAM Heating Pipes CORNER LOW
<kuid2:132952:142114:3> SAM Heating Pipes DEFLECTION LOW
<kuid2:132952:142110:3> SAM Heating Pipes END HIGH
<kuid:132952:142108> SAM Heating Pipes EXTENSION1
<kuid2:132952:142116:3> SAM Heating Pipes END LOW1
<kuid2:132952:142113:3> SAM Heating Pipes PIPES HIGH
<kuid2:132952:142112:3> SAM Heating Pipes PIPES LOW
<kuid2:132952:142111:3> SAM Heating Pipes TRANSITION1
<kuid2:132952:142107:3> SAM Heating Pipes BASE1
<kuid2:132952:142108:3> SAM Heating Pipes EXTENSION1
<kuid2:132952:142109:3> SAM Heating Pipes EXTENSION2