Animating a river and more

Well folks,

I am trying to make an animated river for my route and I have encuntered a problem. How to prevent that I "run out of water" when using the TranslateXFunction??? Does anyone know?

Simple, just ask Graham to get lots of buckets full of water from the Channel and make him keep pouring all day long so that the river dosen't run out of water!

viccylinefan

The river is done, see a bit more below...

Looks good, although it's not the (blue) Danube!

The color can be changed, that is the easiest bit of work.

In that case it's an amazing work. I am wondering how you dit that, it looks rather natural to me. (although we would call this structure a canal here in the Netherlands, a river is never straight).

Well, it is here in Brno... check this out, the bridge and banks are real things.

Looks good, is it expensive on resources? If you're using a texture shift remember they're hungry.

You can always use a bit of riverside planting to break the straighness up a bit.

As for Viccy's comments about fetching buckets of water, I wouldn't worry. Put Viccy in charge and you won't need the buckets, he's so full of pi** and wind that the river would never run dry!

Ah, I see that you left out the curve beyond the bridge. That's a river!

graymac wrote:Looks good, is it expensive on resources? If you're using a texture shift remember they're hungry.

You can always use a bit of riverside planting to break the straighness up a bit.

As for Viccy's comments about fetching buckets of water, I wouldn't worry. Put Viccy in charge and you won't need the buckets, he's so full of pi** and wind that the river would never run dry!

I am using the TranslateXFunction, which is a little less expensive. Nevermind that, there is a space for improvement that I have just realised and I will implement it straight away.

The plants are about to take place, so it will look slightly different soon.

It looks very well!!
You will need a situation where the track and the river are in view for long enough to see what is actually happening. Like a signal check on a overbridge??? You can't let a visual feature like that be wasted.

Nice, only trouts are missing!

Derryck, i know you know your stuff, but why dont you add birds? Create a few flat birds in csv. Chuck them in a .animated and then instead of translate, do rotate =) just afew things i earnt from ant B =)

Trouts in such a filthy river?

mrknowitall wrote:Derryck, i know you know your stuff, but why dont you add birds? Create a few flat birds in csv. Chuck them in a .animated and then instead of translate, do rotate =) just afew things i earnt from ant B =)

Maybe later.

You guys never seem to have enough.

Now hypnotize yourselves. (Of course, it goes smoothly when I am not recording...)

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Good Stuff, Derryck - will it change automatically when the clocks go back in October......................?

Not really, it can actually be dependent only on the time that is set within the route file.

Every station on my route has a clock, and they all run according to the starting time of the route!

Same here, at least at the main station at Waterville. I think I put about 20 clocks spread round 4 platforms. Mine are only plain animated digital clocks though.

Tourists will be coming from everywhere to see that clock

Looks great, Derryck - I was only joking about putting the clocks back.......!

busheyheath wrote:Every station on my route has a clock, and they all run according to the starting time of the route!

graymac wrote:Same here, at least at the main station at Waterville. I think I put about 20 clocks spread round 4 platforms. Mine are only plain animated digital clocks though.

Tourists will be coming from everywhere to see that clock

I think I might have digital clock showing the current time directly on the upgraded panel of my 362, once I make it...