Show and Tell Modeling efforts for Open Rails

[tscraftsman]

It's Show and Tell





Some of you might recognize this model that I've been working on from way back. I just blew the dust off of it during the holiday season. I am really excited about the higher ceiling level for poly counts OR has to offer. I do like the fact that I don't have to relearn how to export and convert my models into OR compared to the complicated methods of RW.

Just wondering if anyone else is taking advantage of the potential that OR has to offer and perusing their modeling dreams?

[longiron]

Don't forget that Open Rails will display the full fidelity of your textures, so you may want to re-visit them.

[tscraftsman]

So far Im using a single 2048x2048 texture for the unit as well as modeling the cowling door panels,latches and bolts in 3D.

[dennisat]

Just wondering if anyone else is taking advantage of the potential that OR has to offer and perusing their modeling dreams?

You may like to look at this topic on UKTRAINSIM.COM

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=324&t=114548

Dennis

[tscraftsman]

You may like to look at this topic on UKTRAINSIM.COM

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=324&t=114548

Dennis

Oh Wow Could you imagine what a diesel locomotive would look with that amount of detail! Thanks for the Link.

Don't forget that Open Rails will display the full fidelity of your textures, so you may want to re-visit them.

As far as full fidelity of the textures do you mean higher resolutions? At the moment I am using a single 2048x2048 texture for crisper paint lines and logos

[3Directions]

Oh Wow Could you imagine what a diesel locomotive would look with that amount of detail!

I imagine they'd look kinda like some on 3dstudio Matt ?

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[jovet]

As far as full fidelity of the textures do you mean higher resolutions? At the moment I am using a single 2048x2048 texture for crisper paint lines and logos

I believe he's referring to the fact that OR doesn't water down textures to 16-bit color internally like MSTS does. No more banding!!!

[tscraftsman]

I believe he's referring to the fact that OR doesn't water down textures to 16-bit color internally like MSTS does. No more banding!!!

Sweet thanks for the clarification!

[longiron]

I believe he's referring to the fact that OR doesn't water down textures to 16-bit color internally like MSTS does. No more banding!!!

That's correct.

[OTTODAD]

Oh Wow. Could you imagine what a diesel locomotive would look with that amount of detail!

Can not see any well defined wheel flanges like Tiger Trains wagons have !

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[tscraftsman]

Just a quick status update


I decided to shed the 3d modeled door panels and go with a manual drawn bump map texture so far so good

[BNSFfan]

Bump maps ftw. I really really like this beautiful C40-8M. It'll look sexy with some GEVOs with this kind of high detail:

[tscraftsman]

Wow that's a sharp looking GEVO! Top notch detail

[BNSFfan]

and that CM just makes me the happiest lil' BCR fan ever.

[jovet]

Bump maps ftw.

Just so everyone is clear, a bump map is a separate greyscale texture applied onto the raw color part of a texture. MSTS does not support bump maps on shapes. The only type of bump map MSTS supports is the microtex.ace file which is applied to the terrain textures in the "foreground" of the viewport. Drawing faucets on a color texture is not a bump map. In newer graphics file formats, a "bump map" can be considered a third element in a texture file, such as having the color texture, alpha texture, and bump texture. A shine map would be a fourth.