MS Project Thread

[mishtahshneaks]

Hey.

I've recently been dabbling in the "dark arts" of retexturing. Or... more aptly, how to. This thread serves as a way to showcase whatever I've been working on for OpenRails in my free time.






Starting things off (in more ways than one) I've taken to retexturing the NAVS 40ft "PS-Style" boxcars into the fictional Canton Railroad. Thankfully, it's not my first retexture (in fact, it's my third!). Originally, I was going to keep these for myself, but once I retexture a few more, I'll consider making a small pack of Canton lettered cars.

[eric]

Nicely staged.

[Orbita]

Nice to see a classic fictional railroad see the light again.

[mishtahshneaks]

Foobie Illinois Central 100-Ton hoppers. Pay no mind to the missing 4th chute. Wanting to cover all the bases possible, I attempted to depict four different liveries. Those being the 1968 Split Rail, 1972 ICG, plus two repainted variations of both. While I was working on these, I took a slight detour and tried my hand at some rust. I liked the look enough that I'll likely include it was an alternate texture sheet for end-users to swap out themselves. The bottom two images show the alternate, rusted variation.

[mishtahshneaks]

Unfortunately for me, I wasn't aware that there were quad door hoppers. Fortunately, it means that with a few adjustments, I can easily refit the lettering and weathering to the more accurate model. Same points apply to the previous one: Four liveries, and an alternate "rusted" texture. However, now each car only has two number variations. Once I go through them with a fine-toothed comb, they should be up on the library shortly.

[CSRX]

Always did like the IC Split rail logo. Looks great on those hoppers.

[rrdiesel87]

Nice work, some great looking hoppers there!

[Erick_Cantu]

Really digging the Canton cars. Dick's approach heavily inspired the "kit" ideology behind my current cars and locomotives, right down to the simple fictional base textures.

[mishtahshneaks]

It's been a while since I've shared anything on this thread, but I have a reason why.

I've been learning! And I've decided to put everything I've learned to making a layered blank for the TrainSimulations SD70M included in their SP Shasta Route addon.



It's nearly finished, all I have left to do is the final touches before it's in a releasable state.

[mishtahshneaks]

Finished the blanks earlier today, so I've decided to start on the first locomotives that'll use them. Since Darkhorse427's Utah Belt route is in development, I want to make a few SD70Ms to go along with it when it releases.

[eric]

Looks great

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[mishtahshneaks]

Finished the blanks earlier today, so I've decided to start on the first locomotives that'll use them. Since Darkhorse427's Utah Belt route is in development, I want to make a few SD70Ms to go along with it when it releases.

Wrapped these up early this morning for a total of 7 units, each with some weathering and detail variation. When I get better at modeling, I might try and tackle the headlight setup the scale models had.




Shape Viewer (the non-TSRE5 version) spouts out DirectX runtime errors whenever I try to load a model into it, so here's four of the seven as they look in-game.

[SD40-2]

Shape Viewer (the non-TSRE5 version) spouts out DirectX runtime errors whenever I try to load a model into it, so here's four of the seven as they look in-game.

You need a replacement trainlib.ocx, included with this download.

https://www.trainsim.com/forums/file...leid?fid=85028

[mishtahshneaks]

You need a replacement trainlib.ocx, included with this download.

Tried that numerous times, I still get the following error:



From what I've read, DirectX error code 88760868 corresponds to the software being unable to create a Direct3D rendering component. I've tried installing legacy drivers just in case that might be the problem, but the issue still persists.

[stewy]

I had the same problem, and after reading the instructions you will have to completly remove shape viewer from your computer and then reinstall the DDS Open Rails update. It worked for me. Regards Stewy