B&O West End

[longiron]

Wonderful news. Always can use high quality models of these type of farm houses

[scottb613]

Wonderful news. Always can use high quality models of these type of farm houses

Hi Chris,

Huh - M. Payne asked me if I had the TSM source - I don’t see his post now.

Regards,
Scott

[CSXT Q-317]

Huh - M. Payne asked me if I had the TSM source - I don’t see his post now.

I took it down, I was researching how to take older TSM files that I had personally built and import them into Blender. I had a few older shapes that I built that didn't look bad and would save me considerable time in building for my Ohio Division project. I have since figured it out.

I apologize for the confusion there.

[CSXT Q-317]

Jerry Sullivan was nice enough to share his route extension from Grafton to Parkersburg, so that is where this project is going next. Going to be fun.

I'm glad to hear someone will take this on. I have a copy but right now I can't start on it. Busy on the Ohio Division rework and fighting off burnout. I also wanted to do a NS route from Portsmouth to Bellevue or Columbus to Bellevue which was a route I used to run on. As I find routes in Ohio rather lacking. Have no idea if I will get the second one started as of yet. Have had a few life-changing events happen which has taken my attention away at the moment.

[scottb613]

Hi.

Oh cool - LOL - thought I might of mixed up several posts.

3DC can import TSM and can export in Collada - which can be read to Blender. You will lose the hierarchy and any animations though.

I don’t have 3DC installed at the moment - or I’d do it for you.

Regards,
Scott

[longiron]

Just a quick update:

• having to redo the numbering of mile markers after discovering an error
• continuing to work on installing signals. Have two track charts (1931 and 1968) that indicate very different signal locations and configurations, so I have to work the discrepancies
• lots of minor fixes and improvements

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[longiron]

All signals are installed. Now doing testing (freight and passenger) and minor signal corrections. Once testing is complete I will bury the visible CTRL icons. Kept pretty detailed records to manage the process.
BOWE_SignTest.jpg BOWE_SigProcess.jpg

[longiron]

Signals check out (thanks to Travis for his B&O signal package). Now working on upgrading the buildings in Grafton. Re-learning TSM and Blender all over again. First finished model is Willard Hotel.
UpgradedWillardHotel.jpg

[longiron]

I'm working towards a release in the very near future, but one final thing is bothering me. I've noticed is the lack of people. People waiting at stations, RR workers working, farmers farming, etc. Searching high and low I have not found any good, existing items that represent the transition period. Any suggestions?

I'm more that willing to create them myself. That takes time. Should they be 3D or just flat people that rotate with the viewport?

[landnrailroader]

LongIron,

There should be some flat people in the library from back around 2003 or so. I created a bunch. Now the ladies skirt lengths etc. suggest a time period of around then and there are more casual folks than others. To provide the rotation would mean using 2 or more copies of the same image aligned so that it does not visually jump around when moving past it and I didn't have the skill to do that then. And back then 90% of people were of the "flat type" in the simulation.

Jerry

[longiron]

An active member generously shared their 3D people assets appropriate to my time frame. I'm also building a set of 3D people using images from O Scale figurines as the start for new textures. Once done, I will upload to the library for anyone to use.

RRFigurinesColor3.jpg

[rfranzosa]

An active member generously shared their 3D people assets appropriate to my time frame. I'm also building a set of 3D people using images from O Scale figurines as the start for new textures. Once done, I will upload to the library for anyone to use.

RRFigurinesColor3.jpg

Thanks!


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[longiron]

More progress toward finishing the route. Upgrades to primitive buildings in Grafton. One done, three to go. Once I'm done with that, onto the figures.
UpgradeBldgGrafton1.jpg

[tdbaer]

Covered a good portion of this line yesterday on the rail trail. It reminded me of the excellent work I have seen posts here virtually resurrecting the rail route as it was. Keep up the good work, can't wait to simulate a run on this line soon!