Whatever's Locomotive Reskins

[Whatever2006]

The next day and I finally did ATSF 4038, last night I worked on doing the numberless blanking and applying the numbers. I did some fidelity on the DDS Export Settings on the compression side because I noticed the file size for ATSF 4022 is a bit larger than the base ATSF GP60s, which I figured I didn't put in DXT1 in the first (along with not including MipMaps?).

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And the results looks good . I need to rework on ATSF 4022 at some point, but I will see about that.

[ossie]

You're getting a nice little roster together there Eoin. I always enjoy seeing any of the survivors still running around in that paint scheme.

[Whatever2006]

You're getting a nice little roster together there Eoin.

I'm just getting started, my inital plans is doing the ATSF numbers that were on the older GP60s made by Danny Beck with 4022 and 4038 being the first two done, I have 4023 and 4024 to work on, then the total number would be around 7 Santa Fe GP60s, original 3 units and 4 additional numbers which the numbers are carry over from the older GP60s.

Once I'm done with them, I might as well move over into making some additional Norfolk Southern GP60s despite that I don't have a use case for the NS GP60s yet...? But that's going to be disclosed at a later point.

[pwillard]

You mean you want to add something like this?

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[Whatever2006]

Yep I think that beacon looks like a candidate for it, I could take it minus the bracket underneath it since I think the bracket is on the ATSF GP60 I think.

[Whatever2006]

Side by side, I've been doing a rework on the numberless blank on ATSF 4029's base texture map with the hope that I can improve on it, then I exported the texture with DXT1 selected and included the Mip Maps. This is going to be on hold for the time being.

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Edit: I figured something is missing for ATSF 4038, so I figured it will be time to address it, here's an variant for 4038 with the US flags, which is included in the old ATSF GP60 pack... I will push out another update at some point.

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[Whatever2006]

Horn honking fun, I will leave a quote from the description from the video itself.

Recorded this clip using OBS but with the canvas resolution being fixed (which is overdue due to me being dumb and overlooked at something simple).

The horn seen in the video is made by Nash and is originally for the CN AC44C6Ms from the Pre-Release version, prior to their release in the TrainSim File Library.

And yes, Santa Fe Railway 4024 is already included, I thought I decided to record a short clip of my personal mods of the SMS files from the base EMD GP60 pack just for fun.

[bp2]

Does that horn come with the pack?

[Whatever2006]

Does that horn come with the pack?

No, the K3L isn't included in the EMD GP60 Base Pack as for starters, I included the horn as a personal modification of mine as I got it from Nash's CN AC44C6M, not the TrainSim Release since that version does NOT include the 7FDL soundset that's later included in the NS Dash 9 pack and the CSXT AC44CWMs.

[Whatever2006]

Whilst I'm slowly working away on another ATSF GP60, I decided to try my hand on... the C40-8W and C41-8W series from the Santa Fe...

Well, I'm testing something out involving a missing detail for the front door, but progress on that is very sluggish due to the broken alpha after exporting, so I'm trying to figure out to "fix" that...

Edit: My mind was on the gutter after noticing that I was exporting with the selected layer... and now I had it fixed, so i guess I got two projects to work on now.

[Whatever2006]

A quick copy and paste patch, ever. But a small community fix years later to address an oversight relating to a detail that is somehow overlooked.

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[Whatever2006]

Knowing that some models from a few years ago and more starts to show their age and some do decently hold in recent times... if I were roll out some update kit for the GE C41-8W locomotives (along with some additional numbers) from the K-Line Train Set, some things needs to be taken for consideration like filling in the small details that weren't there originally. I know I'm no modeller currently, I couldn't do much about it unless I can either make one myself or ask someone to assist me in providing a model FA...?

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[Whatever2006]

The last SLI ATSF GP60 is complete...

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And here's all four of them, I used a plugin called Synthesizer on GIMP which how I was able to do the numberless patch on ATSF 4034's texture map, EvolutionMan gave me pointers to a link called 'Content Aware Fill', a plugin for Paint Dot Net, which is based on Synthesizer.

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I will begin packaging them up along with updating the read me to account for 4023 and the US Flag Decal variant for 4022.

[Whatever2006]

Doing a niche within a niche...?

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[Whatever2006]

With the new year arriving, I managed to do one additional Santa Fe SD40 in Pinstripe and I took an existing number from the BNSF SD40 Heritage pack which is ATSF 5007.
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Outside of that, I recently did a numberless patch on the Santa Fe SD40u, for some context about that, Parker made the ATSF SD40us using the ATSF SD40 in Freight Warbonnet from the ATSF group as a base with the SD40u shape taken from the BNSF group, then he modified and reskins the textures to make them with the SD40u shape.
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I say my thanks to him for providing me the ATSF SD40us and now, I gotta another project to work on it seems, which I'm done with.
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After looking through the BNSF group of the BNSF SD40 Heritage Pack, I decided to take a look at BNSF 6311 which happened to be formally ATSF 5012 (nee ATSF 1712), so I decided to do that loco as well to add up the numbers ATSF SD40us.
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