The Weathering/Dirt thread

[phydeaux]

Since this cropped up again, I've gotta add my $0.02 in. Most of the weathering jobs I see here are very good, but they don't go far enough. People seem to forget that the wheels, mainly the front truck, throw up a lot of dirt, mud and crap and a lot of it dries on the side of the cab in an upward pattern as you progress toward the rear. I see tons of this in real life, but never in the weathering examples here. Do all of our motive power run only on clear days with no dust?

[rdayt]

Do all of our motive power run only on clear days with no dust?

As a matter of fact, yes.
It's always July 1st 1955, 75 degrees and partly cloudy on the Very Short Line RR. ☺

Randy
Edit: We do have a little dust though. See picture above.

[CSRX]

Since this cropped up again, I've gotta add my $0.02 in. Most of the weathering jobs I see here are very good, but they don't go far enough. People seem to forget that the wheels, mainly the front truck, throw up a lot of dirt, mud and crap and a lot of it dries on the side of the cab in an upward pattern as you progress toward the rear. I see tons of this in real life, but never in the weathering examples here. Do all of our motive power run only on clear days with no dust?

The way some of the locomotives are mapped out, makes it a bit difficult to make this happen.
There is a reason I usually don't add weathering to my work, and it's not just because I suck at it.

[peterman]

Since this cropped up again, I've gotta add my $0.02 in. Most of the weathering jobs I see here are very good, but they don't go far enough. People seem to forget that the wheels, mainly the front truck, throw up a lot of dirt, mud and crap and a lot of it dries on the side of the cab in an upward pattern as you progress toward the rear. I see tons of this in real life, but never in the weathering examples here. Do all of our motive power run only on clear days with no dust?

Howdy,

To me that's not so much of an issue as is the winter screen shots I see posted where the scenery is snow covered but all the rolling stock thinks it's July. I just spent the last 8 months winterizing my rolling stock, but it was worth it.

Peter

[qballbandit]

Peter, you're a better man than I! Something I've always wanted to do, but can't even wrap my head around where to begin with so many pieces of rolling stock...
Kudos to you.

[peterman]

Peter, you're a better man than I! Something I've always wanted to do, but can't even wrap my head around where to begin with so many pieces of rolling stock...
Kudos to you.

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the comment, but I am definitely not a better man than you. We are equals, just in different ways . Winterizing the rolling stock is really not very different than winterizing scenery objects. You only need to add a folder called "Snow" (no quotation marks) inside the folder of the rolling stock that you wish to winterize. Once you have made your new winter .ace/.dds file, drop it into the snow folder. Next step, change the alternative texture in the .sd file to 1. (I do hope you are not one of those that says we don't need no freaking .sd files). Anyways, after that you're good to go. I use Route-Riter to get my .ace files to PSP 7.04. In order to see my progress, I make a copy of the original .ace file then I can place my new .ace file with the original name in the main folder (not the Snow folder). You have to do it this way as Route-Riter doesn't use the seasonal buttons on rolling stock. Once I'm satisfied, I drop the .ace file into the Snow folder and rename my copy back to it's original name.

Ok... are you discombobulated yet? It's time consuming and remember.... layers, layers and layers. If you want to take it to the next step, you'll need some artistic skills. I'll offer the best help that I can.

Peter

[pwillard]

Well, I'm sure its not as simple as reaching for the white color with your paintbrush. ;-P

[peterman]

Howdy,
I should have also mentioned that all .ace/.ds files should be copied into the Snow folder, whether they were retextured or not. Alrighty, here are a couple of shots. One being Summer textures and the other Snow textures>

Open Rails 2025-01-13 07-10-07.jpg,

and the other...

Open Rails 2025-01-13 07-06-17.jpg

Peter