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Union Pacific No. 119 by Smokebox

Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:28 am
by ElphabaWS
Announcement at Dovetail Live for upcoming Smokebox Union Pacific No. 119 and accompanying 1869 Cheyenne route: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-simulator/articles/article/highball-to-1869

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:35 am
by Sagefuncom
Really excited for this! Looking forward to getting it!

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:39 am
by GERUNIMO625
What an exciting week! My wallet can barely stand all the excitement.
I'm beside myself Mr. Rennie. As usual you've outdone yourself, the locomotive and route look incredible!
Also, Gary Dolzall shows his flair with the pen.


P.S. As some of you may know a tradition railroaders still practice to this day is to "high ball" a passing train or one you are meeting. That said, what do you say if something is wrong with that train, "Low Ball"? *!greengrin!*

Take care

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:54 pm
by ZekTheKid
Looking forward to the release! :D

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:05 pm
by ET44C4
Very impressive work! **!!bow!!** !*cheers*!

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Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 3:22 pm
by ozinoz
Phenomenal !*drool*!

The level of detail and workmanship is without equal.

Congratulations Mike, it deserves to be a best seller...

**!!bow!!**

!*cheers*!

Re: Union Pacific No. 119 by Smokebox

Unread postPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:09 pm
by mrennie
Many thanks to you all, I'm glad you like what I've done with the loco and route :D

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Unread postPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:19 pm
by OpenRailer90
There is already a thread for this locomotive in another sub forum on this site.

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Unread postPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:26 pm
by mrennie
OpenRailer90 wrote:There is already a thread for this locomotive in another sub forum on this site.


Yep, this one that I started a while ago: http://railworksamerica.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=18861

Maybe the moderator might prefer to merge them into a single thread.

Re: Union Pacific No. 119 by Smokebox

Unread postPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:45 pm
by OpenRailer90
It seems more logical to rather remove this thread as the original one has more relevant discussion.

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Unread postPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 11:51 am
by jpetersjr
This is looking great.

Is there any way to have some animated horse riders with this as well though. Perhaps see a cowboy off in the background horse riding.

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Unread postPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:17 pm
by mrennie
jpetersjr wrote:This is looking great.

Is there any way to have some animated horse riders with this as well though. Perhaps see a cowboy off in the background horse riding.


Unfortunately, 3DCrafter doesn't support the skin-morphing shader, so I can't make anything but the most basic of character animations without them looking robotic. An animated horse rider is way beyond the capabilities of 3DC.

If any other developer feels like making more wild west assets (especially people and horses) for this and future 19th century routes, I'd have no objection at all. They could even come up with a Marketplace pack of such assets so that players could customise the routes for themselves.