updated 60 footer.

[guilford309]

Updated..
Brake line, and adjusted poly count for better in good performance.

[MuskokaMofo]

the wheels/trucks etc. are all in too far.

Edit: sorry hit modify rather then quote.

[c36dash7]

I was just curious how one can get the permission to use the trucks that you just changed, onto that model (the one posted here ) . Those trucks are trillion times better than what I had been using so far . I have seen the screenshot of just the trucks themselves, on your own NEPS Forum .

Just the permission to use those trucks would really make my day !

As far as the train brake lines , this must imply a pretty intricate alpha channel for this , right ? Just curious about this, for now...

One more tidbit .

In my To Do list for this week , I do have this photo of a reefer which looks strikingly like this CryoTrans type you repainted, although this one has been completely covered ( read: sides / end / rooftop ), by a stunning ( quote / unquote ) supergraffitti that is very tasteful , very colorful , and contains no text at all ( or anything one may consider offensive / remembering the Train Sim communities all-ages demographics ) .

I will try to relocate the original photo of this one / I'd be tempted to offer coming forward with this, if I can . The angle is not proper for photo-skin applications , therefore, this would have to be a combination of this, and some creative tweaking .

Awesome work with your repaints so far / just a personal opinion ( and not based on fact ) , but I would venture to say the trucks ( on this orange reefer posted here ) are located where they should be . I could be wrong, but those look right (to me ).

Jean Brisson Mesa Grande Shops

[guilford309]

muskokamofo said:

the wheels/trucks etc. are all in too far.

Actually, they aren't. These are reefer style boxcars. I have many pics of them, with the wheels set up as if they where on a 50 footer.


Also, the trucks, couplers, and brake lines are all from David Rowe. and He is fine with my using them, or anyone I do believe for that matter as longs as credit is given.

[c36dash7]

Also, the trucks, couplers, and brake lines are all from David Rowe. and He is fine with my using them, or anyone I do believe for that matter as longs as credit is given.

Wow ! Nice to hear . And timely as well, as I could not resist using those .

What I did , howver, is to simply take "bits and pieces" from his truck texture file ( actually , there is a direct link posted for this, really-really deep somewhere in the Train Sim forum itself ) , and use this to upgrade an existing 7truck1.ace file , as used on many models I have here . I also had to create a fresh alpha channel for this .

The following is a first visual test / I will certainly create many variations of the overall colors, from shades of brown / rust / and dusty shades, to create variety .

For now, this is for my personal use , but if there is interest , I would want to contact David Rowe and show my work, first, before he decides whether or not, he would want his texture file applied to a different shape file, than originally intended ( the one for 7truck1 does not have brake shoes, etc .. ).

Jean Brisson Mesa Grande Shops

Revised truck texture file for BCLW boxcar BCOL 60839

[c36dash7]

Also, the trucks, couplers, and brake lines are all from David Rowe. and He is fine with my using them, or anyone I do believe for that matter as longs as credit is given.

As they say, what a difference a day makes ... I was up again until 2 AM last night , trying to further fix and adjust the texture files for David Rowe's Barber trucks .

This was good practice, in a way , but I did find the files earlier today , for the entire trucks themselves, both the 70 ton and the 100 ton versions, in the MopHouse / MLT Downloads File Library .

Look inside a Misc. section , for the following : QRBogie4 Trucks by David Rowe

Easy to see that working smarter , is not something that comes naturally to me ... ;D

Jean Brisson Mesa Grande Shops