PakBritain - to-do list

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Reply #35 – April 04, 2009, 06:14:57 pm

Yes, don't worry about drawing horses, the existing ones can easily be re-used. Carts very much need to be done though!

The list of goods currently in use is:
- bulk (including grain and cement in the same category).
- fluids
- long goods (steel / planks)
- crate goods (including containerised goods)
- refrigerated goods
- livestock
- mail

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Reply #36 – September 13, 2010, 08:43:15 pm

If anyone would like me to do narrow guage I would be happy to do it, I would need some help though.

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Reply #37 – September 13, 2010, 11:31:40 pm

I daresay that you doing narrow gauge things would be very welcome indeed! The Hood would be the best person to offer tips on how to get started - I have done a number of vehicle graphics myself, but narrow gauge would require tracks, stations, tunnels and bridges as well as vehicles, all of which would have to be drawn to the reduced gauge. There would be far fewer vehicles for narrow gauge, though, than standard gauge, so it'd be easier to get things finished, and, once you have one type of track, station and vehicle, all the other things can relatively easily be aligned to the same gauge.

I have to say, I've been hoping for some narrow gauge for a long time! It'd make a delightfully quirky and rather wonderful addition to the pakset, as well as filling a useful practical purpose in the late 19th and early 20th century of filling in a gap between heavy rail and road transport.

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Reply #38 – September 14, 2010, 05:04:08 pm

Narrow gauge would be quite a large project (requiring track, depots, stations, vehicles, signals, tunnels, bridges). I'd recommend getting your eye in with some additions for other vehicles or buildings first, and once you've got the hang of it then maybe start on narrow gauge.

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Reply #39 – September 14, 2010, 07:54:55 pm

I think I will start with a station building, I'll look this weekend for a good prototype, and a tutorial on how to make it.

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Reply #40 – September 14, 2010, 08:55:32 pm

I'd recommend using blender for consistency - and also then you can use existing buildings as a starting point. I can send you any of the files if you want to work from these, along with some more detailed instructions about how to convert into simutrans images.

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Reply #41 – September 14, 2010, 09:33:44 pm

I can vouch that the easiest way of doing things by far is starting with existing Blender files and modifying them.

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Reply #42 – September 15, 2010, 08:41:45 pm

Quote from: The Hood – on September 14, 2010, 08:55:32 pm

I'd recommend using blender for consistency - and also then you can use existing buildings as a starting point. I can send you any of the files if you want to work from these, along with some more detailed instructions about how to convert into simutrans images.

I would very much like that hood pm me some instructions when you find the time.

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Reply #43 – September 16, 2010, 07:31:38 pm

Oliver, for some reason I can't get sending you a PM to work. Anyway it's not confidential information, so I'll post it here.

Thanks for considering drawing stuff for pak128.Britain. At this stage, I'd say the first thing is get used to how to use blender. I taught myself enough blender to use simutrans by following this online tutorial: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

The main skills I use are creating shapes, moving nodes, ****igning colours and textures, and rendering. However, it is probably easiest for making pak128.Britain models if you take an existing blend file which has the correct lighting, camera and render settings already set up, and modify that (it's also often easier to create one model by modifying another as well). I suggest you pick an object from the current set that is close to the object you want to create, and ask me for the blend for that object. I'll send more detailed instructions on how to get from the blender model to a simutrans pak file then.

Good luck!

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Reply #44 – September 16, 2010, 11:34:50 pm

Thanks Hood, I think that its not much harder than Auto-CAD after I looked at the book you gave me a link to, thanks. I will look over the files and see if I can find something similar.