West Horton Trams

A bit more development of the first of 3 canal areas on the route, just before The Mayburys tram stop. This is where the tram first crosses the canal, obviously this is a WIP including a new bridge which I've spent the last 3 days building! None of this transparent texture stuff, all done using vertex faces etc.






Any comments please

Regards

Tom

Good construction, are planning any textures for the bridge?

Yes there will be some, as obviously there will be for the rest of the canal area, I wanted to get the construction sorted first and in place then I can build up a library of textures.

If anyone has any steel girder textures that I could use, they would be much appreciated.

Tom

Looking promising. Good rails on the bridge!

I have a wee problem that I wonder if anyone can help with. I have made up a train.dat for my first Horton Tram, but it seems to go a bit nose heavy when braking and aims for taking off when you accelerate hard, how can I alter this? I can't add too much weight to it as it just slips the wheels.

Thanks

Tom

The water in the canal could be a bit lighter, as it is meant to reflect the blue skies above. I assume there is no ink factory in the neighbourhood

Haha yes I could indeed put in an ink factory! No, its not quite finished yet it was just to test the transparency colour, surely it should more be a grey colour seeing as its a canal!

Tom

By the way, if do not consider the tone of the blue color, you are using a very nice water texture. Where did you get it?

Its a transparent panel, with the set color command set to 0,0,255, with 80, added on the end for transparency.

Regards

Tom

Tstageman wrote:Its a transparent panel, with the set color command set to 0,0,255, with 80, added on the end for transparency.

Regards

Tom

Well obviously, but I meant the texture that is beneath.

Ah I see sorry Derryck, I didn't twig thats what you meant!

Its a standard tarmac texture that I'm using throughout the whole of the route, thats set a small distance below the see through panel...

Tom

Tstageman: I think you must have missed that Derryck was interested in your "very nice water texture". If your local council are surfacing roads with tarmac like that, I'm glad I'm not driving on them!

Yes, I'm aware of this now Egg, and the tarmac texture may well change sometime in the future, this is just the first initial idea for the route before it gets a bit of a makeover before release.

Has anyone come up with an answer for this at all...

I have a wee problem that I wonder if anyone can help with. I have made up a train.dat for my first Horton Tram, but it seems to go a bit nose heavy when braking and aims for taking off when you accelerate hard, how can I alter this? I can't add too much weight to it as it just slips the wheels.



Regards

Tom

You have to edit brake pipe pressures and also acceleration, it's the color graphs divided per "gear".

Small update on the route, half of the underground section under the centre of the city has been completed with track and stations in place, just lots of details to add plus signals (which I still need to work on), a quick taster shot to get the interests flowing again and I'll post a few more tomorrow or Monday.



Regards

Tom

Another update with some more screenshots, opinions please.






This shot showing the T4 tram which I am also building at the moment, looks a bit more modern!











Regards

Tom