Horsehoe Curve Upgrade

[llanning08]

BLW has a Bonus Conemaugh & Black Lick EMD SW7 #104 & #111 in the BLW/ZT SW East Pack Part 2.

[rrdiesel87]

I'm also curious--will the upgraded Horseshoe vegetation have winter textures? Horseshoe is a route that I love to run in winter.

Yes, the Horseshoe upgrade has independent vegetation textures for all seasons including two different sets of winter textures. "Winter" is bare trees and vegetation as they would appear in winter. "Winter Snow" is the same textures but with layered snow added as they would appear during and immediately after a snowfall event.

[wwhall]

^That's awesome.

One additional question: Will activities made for the current Horseshoe Route run on the upcoming revised route? Thanks for the information in advance.

[CSXT Q-317]

Thankfully TSRE composed a file of "unused" shapes. Would be nice to have the program removed the unused files to reduce clutter when it comes to the final packaging. Maybe Scott with all his fantastic wisdom may come up with something.

Had this exact same thought a couple months ago. As such came up with a bare bones program that can remove unused shapes. Still in a very rough state though but it does work. I've been tinkering on how to lay track faster or at least populate a generic world. I think the unused shape remover will have better chances of success. It's been really helpful in the handful of tests that I have ran while I strip out excessive objects in my Ohio Division route as I redo it.

[rrdiesel87]

This is a quick screen of each season to offer visual clarification.

Spring


Autumn


Winter


Winter Snow

[jbtower]

WOW Andrew, that's crazy real, what an opportunity to sharpen your skills on before any new releases!

[kasik]

Your vegetation is top notch. Do you use Blender ? Are there any tutorials how to make it ?

[Rick-MONON]

Andrew

I just noticed your frame rate (FPS), nice and high with all those trees.

What video card are you running?

[rrdiesel87]

Thanks Kevin

Kasik
These are just the typical cruciform tree shapes with 2048px textures. No modeling needed here.

Rick
I’m running an i5-13400/RTX4060 combo

[railrunner112]

Damn.. that is cool. I need to get this to work on my route, sadly no succes so far

[scottb613]

Damn.. that is cool. I need to get this to work on my route, sadly no succes so far

Hi.

I updated the procedure - maybe it will help.

https://github.com/scottb613/TSRE5-SCOmod/discussions/12

Please follow up in TSRE GenX thread if you need more help.

Regards,
Scott

[railrunner112]

Will do! Thanks in advance!

[Kist]

Is this updated going to be for free to download later here in the site ?

[rrdiesel87]

Is this updated going to be for free to download later here in the site ?

Yes

[Kist]

Oh nice, definitely will be awesome to simulate on this new reskin of the Horseshoe Curve. Imagine what could be done in future new routes with this new scenery.