Beiträge von OlaHaldor

If I want to design a fictional map, not taken from real world DEM, I prefer to use something like World Machine. It is a sophisticated node based terrain design tool. It makes it easy to add natural effects such as erosion, coast lines, cliffs, ridges etc.

If you have a 3D sculpting tool, such as Zbrush, Sculptris, 3D Coat, or some 3D app with sculpting options, that's also a way to make your landscape. Just keep in mind you need to export the geometry from top down as a greyscale image map. There are different ways of achieving this depending on the software.

In all simpleness you can make a document in Gimp or Photoshop and paint a greyscale image in values from black to white. Black is the lowest point, white is the highest.

YstlDystl wrote:

Zitat von YstlDystl

Did not mean it, the update comes in January? Now is already February ...; (

Did they promise anything about January though?

Zitat von PaTrond

The textures for Flytoget are private property, and are also complicated. I'd rather spend the time making something else.

If not a replica, making something that resembles the texture going along the body of the train would be interesting. I'd gladly chip in if needed. Either way, great effort on the base model!

Yes, @lurven !

Considering Trond is Norwegian, I'd think it's something related to that.

I'm happy to announce I've just submit the NSB Di 8 for the Nordic DLC. Hopefully it will be part of the next update of the DLC.
[Blockierte Grafik: http://puu.sh/mfRei/b6312c2fb8.jpg]

Had some trouble that I'll cover in an article regarding modding later. But managed to put it into the game. Need to check how it performs with goods and fine tune the pricing and such, and I'll submit it for the DLC within tomorrow night.

[Blockierte Grafik: http://puu.sh/meboj/e524248d4f.jpg]

Merry Christmas folks. I've had some time now and then to look at the UV maps for the NSB Di8 during the holidays. I finalized the UV maps last night, and have started looking into the texturing this afternoon.
[Blockierte Grafik: http://puu.sh/mdLFI/ae60290da4.png]

Zitat von lurven

Downloaded the Nordic DLC (beta?) just recently. Looks cool so far, started in 1950, with no end dates on vehicles, but no electrics are there (by 1954 at least). Looks cool so far, looking worward to you finishing it

All though not accurate in terms of track width, I'm thinking of making the Thamshavn locomotives some time. They're fairly easy, and the first electric trains in Norway in the early 1900's with a couple of new locomotives up to the 1920's.

It's too soon to tell. A lot can, and will be optimized when it's near completed. Some things, such as the grills will be baked into the normal map. That alone can easily save thousands of polygons.
I doubt it will be more than the El 13 though.

Go ahead and look at the textures. I don't think I'm doing anything special, but I do think the UV tools in Modo is superior to what I'm used to from LightWave.

You guys are nerds.. It's indeed the NSB/CargoNet Di 8
Worked a bit more on it today. Mostly fixing some of the railings and blocking the panels, and added headlights.
[Blockierte Grafik: http://puu.sh/lWpki/0a57e30c8e.png]

I haven't planned any variations for the B3 waggons at the moment. Might paint the doors black.
The El 13 would be nice in the regular red with yellow details, and would mostly be a 'swap colors' operation without much hassle.

The UV maps for my models aren't optimized for manual painting in a 2D app unfortunately. It's the result of two things; not enough knowledge and being too lazy. I usually make the UV maps have a very uniform texel density instead of making it super easy to paint on them in Gimp, Photoshop etc.

I paint my models in Substance Painter, which I think is superior for things like this. Adding grime, dust, scratches, damage in the texture to make it look worn and used instead of brand new couldn't be easier!

I can tell you at least one of the guesses are correct. I went to school today with the hopes of no lectures (as most of the past couple of weeks have been) so I could do some more work. Got to model some important details I think will look very good in-game. You'll get to see it when there's more news overall to show.

I stole some time yesterday, and started something new. I'll leave it a mystery for now.
No promises when it'll be done. It'll be just like any previous mods: something I do in between other things going on. But I can say I've been hoping to do it for quite some time now.
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Hi! The project is neither alive nor dead. It was never planned to be a mod for TF, but don't take it as a 'it'll never happen' just yet.
I'm busy handling life, being my wife's husband, working and studying at the same time.

Doing all these things makes it hard to spend loads of time on what I'd really like to do, unfortunately.

For this to become a mod for TF, it'd better be modeled from the ground up again, because of the way it was modeled in the first place; for high quality rendering. There's quite some differences between lowpoly modeling for real-time game engines and rendering, thus the reason to make it from the ground up.

Can't make any promises. I'm not in Oslo every day, and it's a bit random the times I've seen it. I'll try to figure out the schedule and take some if there's good enough lighting.

Outstanding!

It's available here until further notice.

As I said, phone camera only in a low light condition. Not optimal. Would've been much better with my DSLR obviously. But you can see the bigger picture at least.

By all means, detail like the number of the waggon is cool and would add immersion, but it involves making each waggon their own mod.

I happened to see the train last night and took a few photos of it, though only with the phone. I'll upload them if there's any interest.