Who can say they are a "Blender Modeler"?

[tarrant75]

Thanks Scott and Pete for the encouragement. I have ZERO doubt I'll be leaning on you for help in the coming months.

Saved the thread as a PDF to help with easy access (and to make sure I have access if I need it and the internet goes out for some reason)

[pwillard]

Also, I have a mostly unfinished notebook online about building stuff with Blender for OpenRails, if that helps.

https://github.com/pwillard/ebook-ORTSBCCN/releases/tag/v2.5.0.5

[wacampbell]

I have been using Blender since about 2013. Of course before we could use it for MSTS I had to write the exporter addon. I guess that was my first project! I think that was around the time of Blender 2.79.

Wayne

[superheatedsteam]

Yeah, I guess I also wanted to see if we all just had workflows that worked well for us. For UV mapping, I don't use any add-on or helper tool. I keep meaning to try tools like UVPACKMASTER or Textools but I just plug way the "the old way".

I mean, it just took me about 15 minutes to do these rooftop AC units.

For simple square shapes sure, there is no need, but I found when working on complex objects, it was not only taking a long time but it was becoming a bit of a drag.

For complex objects I use live unwrap to determine where the seams need to go, rectify tool to straighten out curves and Packmaster to optimise the final layout which saves time and effort.

This was an evenings work and most of that was the modelling not the unwrapping which took about an hour. Having a closer look at it now, needs a bit of fine tuning!

Cheers,

Marek.

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[eric]

Pete's notebooks are invaluable.

[railrunner112]

I used gmax in the past but keeping it alive became to difficult. It did cause me to have a long break from modeling in general. Then I tried blender, I now 100% use it for my European Vennbahn route, the added picture has alot of blender objects, only the signal box is still a leftover from gmax.

The only thing I still need to learn more about is making rolling stock and later the new file formats OR uses.
I did start on one bogie though.