Island Line gets an upgrade!

All,

Following the release of my Isle of Wight route, I've been working on a little upgrade. 

• Upgraded scenery, using object construction tips gained from the first release, I'm creating a more realistic scene, without too much detriment to frame rates.
  
• Resized most bmp files to power of two sizes
  
• Increased the radius of the curves around the station areas from 800 to 2000 curve radius, giving a more realistic look to things
  
• Proceeding on to Smallbrook Jn
  

I've noticed a few posts on the other BVE forum, regarding curved platforms, increasing the curve radius has negated the need for curved platforms, unless you zoom in considerably, the platforms being straight objects really isn't obvious. 

All in all, so far it runs smoother and is easier on the eye.

Anyway, a before and after... WIP of course


Before



After

I like the new scenery, did you create those textures yourself?

Some are mine, a lot are from the object download page of www.bveklub.hu - they give a really realistic look when you add a bit of fog. 



Approaching Sandown foot crossing



Passing Sandown Substation

Approaching Sandown, quite happy with how this looks now.

Downloaded some of the house objects from Dexters site

Done some work to Brading station including adding benches, canopy improvements, enlarging the curve radius and building the extension towards Smallbrook and Ryde.

Update - Smallbrook Junction is almost finished


Platform area with benches and wooden platoform


Note the steam railway platform to the left and double track section to Ryde St Johns Road to the right.

where can l get the lsland line please

The current version can be found on my website (click), the screenshots in this thread though are WIP, so not yet available.

thank you very much

First bit of work I've done for a few weeks, I've got the errors down from 453 to 0! It seems I made a few mistakes while coding the objects for Smallbrook, so I've rebuilt it properly.

Happy Easter everyone!

Thought I'd better post something here - been a busy few weeks so not really had any time for BVE, but I'll try to get a release together soon.

Thanks for your patients.

As usual, I started doing a bit of work to the IL and got totally side tracked...

This was going to be for Ryde St Johns Road, quite pleased with it however!

This route is wonderful, and I'm escpecially happy that the objects from www.bveklub.hu have proved useful for such a nice project.

Good work on  Smallbrook