Beiträge von InfinityRibbon

Oh well... I've seen mods done by multiple modders (one for 3D mesh, one for textures etc.) just like your latest work (great job BTW, love it!): so you are basically saying that I should contact someone privately and make the mod together as a shared project.
My intent instead was to create a hub where modders can participate and share their progress. Then, if someone's work should become unsustainable, then it could leave his/her legacy here for someone else who will finish the job.
Maybe I should open another thread just for this idea! I will explain more this concept later, when it will be polished enough.

About the photo, I think you are correct, in that case, I shall change it with the link to the image, it's free to download from the official archive.

Well since there is no response I'll share it now anyway. Tell me what you think and modify it as you please, I'll use the experience gained to make better models!
The reference photo is a separate link as the .rar file would be too big. Also I'm not sure if this is ok with the rules here, if not then I'll delete the post immidiatly.
https://www.archiviofondazione…8a33bbcc04491a1a559a0f3ef

So the FS ALe 660 model should be ready, I transformed all ngons in tris, I made at least the LOD0 and LOD1 and I hope I made them correctly. Can I share the model here? At least for the first models, I'd like to share them here so if anyone is interested in texturing can help.
Thank you very much

Also, since it's my first vehicle I made, there might be some quality drops here and there

Some are good! I think we could extrapolate the "idle" sound and tweak it so that it goes up as the engine accelerates
The thing is that I don't know how to do that yet.
After I've finished the 3D model (once and for all) I'll start working on the ETR 200, the fastest train of the world in 1939

More previews incoming! This is an example of EMU compositions, the rule of thumb is that for every carriage there should be an engine to guarantee optimal acceleration. On flat routes an engine+2carriages was considered fine. Gotta reach that sweet max speed of 150 km/h fast!
Common used compositions:
(E=engine; C=carriage)
EC
EE
ECC
ECE
ECCE

Now, if anyone is interested in texturing (and possibly animate) this beauty, I would be tremendously pleased.

EDIT: Damn I just found out that Le800 are a bit different, so I'll be correcting them ASAP

So here the Preview promised! After some polishing the 3D model of the ALe 660 will be ready! I'd like to make also the Le 800 carriages to make a EMU version of the train, which will be a little more useful. (from 66 seats to 66+80+80= 226)
Le 800 carriages are just like the ALe 660, but with no engines and no pantographs, so it will be super easy to do

I'm not really a texture person, I like more the 3D modeling so... can't help there! Sorry!

I don't think it should be difficult, I alreay had a mod request here saying more or less the same thing.
Someday I'll approach texturing, but for now I'd like to get the models done and to share them here.

This is turning out to be quite the useful place! Organizing our efforts we'll avoid redundant work. @DomTrain thank you for the link, it will be useful both for the model and the texture!
If anyone is interested in the catenary work (helps with immersion!), please read the previous page because I have no idea how fix the damn thing.

Also I've made some progress on the ALe 660! A preview will be available soon-ish.

That's awesome! I'm Italian, but I prefer to keep it international
I'll start working on the 3D models of my vehicles, and boy there are so many!
I'll also post the list of them here, so that everyone who would like to partecipate has some sort of database to which start looking for blueprints at https://www.archiviofondazionefs.it/en/

The site doesn't seem to give technical informations of the trains given, but sometimes it's written on the photos themselves; also a good search on Google should do.

Here's the list, there's some codes to find exactly the picture I (we) need:

name - site - year - photoID - nickname

Locomotive a vapore - Steam
-Gruppo 180 (FS)
-Gruppo 290 + tender
-Gruppo 320 (FS)
-Gruppo 800 (FS) cubo
-Gruppo 910 (FS)
-Gruppo 691 (carenata e scoperta) (FS) (covered and exposed)

Locomotive Diesel
-D. 141 (FS)
-D. 341 (FS)
-D. 342 (FS)
-D. 345 (google)

EMU
-ETR 200 (google)
-ETR 250 (google FS)
-ETR 300 (google)
-ETR 450 (FS google)

Electric Automotrici - small EMUs
-ALe 790-880 (the same) (FS)

-ALe 792-882 (the same) (FS)
-ALe 660 (FS) planned by ya boi InfinityRibbon

-ALe 803 (FS?)

Locomotive Elettriche - Electric
-E 326 (FS google)
-E 424 (FS) planned by DomTrain V
-E 646 (FS) planned by DomTrain V
-E 444 (FS)
-E 646 planned by DomTrain V
-E 656 (FS) Caimano
-E 632 (google?) Tigre (drawings not found) planned by DomTrain V

Carrozze passeggeri GENERAL - Passenger
-Acrz 1° (FS) (1905) AR_01_09_01_0001_00_0001.tif
-AIcrz 1° (FS) (1910) AR_01_09_01_0003_00_0001.tif
-AIz 1° (FS) (1931) AR_01_09_01_0005_00_0001.tif [AR_01_09_01_0015_00_0001.tif] (these have been updated a lot until the 1960s)
-BCDT 2° (FS) (1932) AR_01_09_02_0002_00_0003.tif AR_01_09_02_0002_00_0002.tif
-BCz 2° (FS) (1958) AR_01_09_02_0003_00_0001.tif
-BI 2° (FS) (1947) AR_01_09_02_0005_00_0001.tif
-UIC Bz 2°(FS) (1966) AR_01_09_02_0018_00_0001.tif
-Cz 3° (FS) (1947) AR_01_09_03_0002_00_0001.tif Centoporte planned by Licaon

-Cz 3° (FS) (1950) AR_01_09_03_0010_00_0001.tif Corbellini
-CIz 3° (FS) (1906) AR_01_09_03_0006_00_0001.tif [asym!] (these have been updated a lot until the 1960s)

Carrozze passeggeri MISCELLANEOUS - Passenger
Most of them are asymmetrical remember!!!
-Miste serie ABI 1° 2° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0009.tif [asy!]
-Miste serie ABIvcrI 1° 2° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0019.tif [almost sym]
-Miste serie ABI (lunga) 1° 2° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0010.tif [asy!]
-Miste serie ABRN 1° 2° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0023.tif
-Miste serie ABN 1° 2° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0022.tif
-Miste serie AN 1° (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0027.tif
-Mista Locale AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0006.tif
-Serie AI 1° class (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0026.tif [wtf the windows don't correspond]
-Serie BBR 2° class END (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0028.tif
-Serie BBR 2° class (FS) AR_01_09_04_0001_00_0029.tif

...cargo?

Maybe I got a little bit carried away... but I'll put my effort in this great project. I don't want to end up like someone else (whose name I don't remember) who tried "Project Italia" but got overwhelmed by the amount of work to do. This post will act like some sort of "legacy" so that people can look at the development here and choose what to add.

So I'm basically going to give all the info for older trains!
ITALIAN DLC CONFIRMED!
Do you need translations? For example the official archive has very little English even though there is an """"English"""" version.

Also, maybe it's fair to give the link for the archive: https://www.archiviofondazionefs.it/en/
It's only in Italian, thanks for the ""English"" version...

That's as far as the archive will go, but I've read there's also stuff from 1999.
Besides, nowadays we Europeans share the UIC wagons and not many locos have been developed in the last 20 years (E464 reigns supreme).
There are so many blueprints and not every one has a full usable view of the vehicle. For example, many steam locos show only the top part and no wheels are shown, as if those were part of a chassis built independently.

Also I'm not afraid to say that I'm a beginner and the only thing I'm being comfortable with is 3D modeling, so if anyone is interested in helping me learn and/or help in the coding/texturing department that'd be great!

So I've finally found the Archives with all the blueprints from 1859 to 1970! I'll be studying which train is worthy to be put into the game and then a very big list will appear HERE (a link will be provided), if anyone is interested in joining is free to do so by contacting me on this page or privately.
Also if anyone is interested in completing my catenary work I'm willing to give all my work (the 3D models and reference pictures).

Hello, I'll be working on Italian trains and I have a really quick question: is the representation of fasces accepted or legal? I know it's a big no for the swastikas, but many other games deem the fasces still "acceptable".
Some very iconic Italian trains are the 1930s "Littorine", small DMUs that quickly connected small communities.
The problem is that those trains had small-ish fasces that were removed after 1945. (Attachments)
What should I do? Thanks.

Hello! Well, since the PC isn't able to run the game the project is in stand-by while I work on getting the info from FS. The plan is this:

1) get info from museums and FS
2) share the info here so that someone could be interested in this project and maybe (please!) help me learn how to mod the game properly (coding is a big throwback)
3) start working on the 3D models of various vehicles, starting from the newest to the oldest
4) start working on texturing (which will be very hard for me since I really have basic knowledge)
5) start working on coding (very, very hard to this day)
6) buy a new goddamn PC
7) debugging
release

Everyone interested in this project should look no further than here where I'll try to upload blueprints, real-life photos, and data.

Thank you.

thank you very much for the quick response!

Thank you very much for the quick response! The second one is exactly what I meant!

Hello, I was wondering if it's possibile to make a mod to add grass inside the tracks to make them look like abandoned or just badly maintained. Spots of grass would be randomly generated along the the track as it's laid.
I think that the simplest way anyway is to just add small bushes props with no collision box (like the "prop anarchy" mod for C:S)
Thank you!

Thank you, I'll be working on it!

Do you still need those gondolas you asked before? I may try to make some in Blender, do you need them passenger or cargo?
Secondly, I don't know how to make animations, I can only make the model and texture it.

P.s. I love this work! I've been following it since the first version was out!

Hello, I wanted to ask if it's possible to have a deeper guide on catenary disposition.
For instance, do the single catenary parts lay in a symmetrical pattern or do you have to rotate them? Is it possible to have more than four tracks before having to put a catenary pole? Is it possible to leave a central "gap" when laying multiple lines?
Thank you.

Hello, sorry I don't speak German but Google Translate is a technological miracle!
I was working on Italian infrastructure before my computer went kaput
As I'm writing I'm currently traveling inside a Minuetto
It's a local transport called "ALe 501" (engine) "Le 220" (carriages). There is also a Diesel version called "Aln 501" and "Ln 220" respectively.
I can't do anything at the moment, I can only give some info for the one who will start this project

Edit: actually nowadays the train is called "Jazz" and the electric versions have the following names (due to different lengths)

Look for those names for more info.