Railworks America

I have two questions, one would be better for a different part of the forum, but I don't want to make two new threads on the forums.

Question 1: Digirails Freight Downloads, http://s1.zetaboards.com/DigiRails_Foru ... m/1666735/ Which boxcar page is the default RSC one? If any of them are. I want to make a scenario for the NERW route with some of the content there. This would be done in July when i get the new CPU and my RW rights back from my Mother.

Question 2: This is the question fit for another part of the forum, but I figured I would keep it in one thread. Would a SD75 in NERW paint be considered, I will understand if you say no because it's payware and I know Bob would prefer to have the NERW locomotives be freeware. I'm just curious.

Antwerp wrote:This would be done in July when i get the new CPU and my RW rights back from my Mother.

Don't roll your eyes! With that you might not get it for longer!

1225fan5358 wrote:

Antwerp wrote:This would be done in July when i get the new CPU and my RW rights back from my Mother.

Don't roll your eyes! With that you might not get it for longer!

Nah, I get the game back when I complete my summer math coarse.

Answer1 Drill down through the railworks folder in the D/L and it will tell you what folder the stuff ends up in.
Answer2 There is already payware locos so why not?

The NERW has quite bit of payware now, but I have no intention of painting an SD75. You may feel free to try it yourself. The NERW will take anything you paint and it will get used just like all the stuff Xdriver painted for the NERW. I am working on a route again and the only painting I am doing is rolling stock at this time, when I have time.

artimrj wrote:The NERW has quite bit of payware now, but I have no intention of painting an SD75. You may feel free to try it yourself. The NERW will take anything you paint and it will get used just like all the stuff Xdriver painted for the NERW. I am working on a route again and the only painting I am doing is rolling stock at this time, when I have time.

Ok. (but I don't know how to repaint so I'll leave the idea alone for a while or learn.)

By the way that's one of the reasons I like the RWTools installer because you can look at the manual install and figure out what is supposed to be happening instead of the RWP where you have no idea what the installer is doing.

Yes you should learn as it is quite fun and you get a good feeling inside when you actually complete one and upload it and people start downloading it. Then when you see it in screenshots you get all warm and fuzzy. Trust me it is great stuff. It is not really that hard to do. You can get a free copy of Photoshop CS2, and RW Tools is very inexpensive and that is all you need to repaint. When I was in the Marine Corps, I was mostly a Heavy Equipment mechanic. My gunny always said the best mechanic is the guy who has the balls to take something apart. I took everything apart. Try it, you'll like it.

artimrj wrote:Yes you should learn as it is quite fun and you get a good feeling inside when you actually complete one and upload it and people start downloading it. Then when you see it in screenshots you get all warm and fuzzy. Trust me it is great stuff. It is not really that hard to do. You can get a free copy of Photoshop CS2, and RW Tools is very inexpensive and that is all you need to repaint. When I was in the Marine Corps, I was mostly a Heavy Equipment mechanic. My gunny always said the best mechanic is the guy who has the balls to take something apart. I took everything apart. Try it, you'll like it.

Alright, I will look into getting those. I have Paint.net if that will work. I used to repaint when I played Trainz and I was quite good at it. Although when I got Railworks around July 4th last year I noticed that reskinning was alot more tricky in RW then in Trainz as RW requires RW Tools and Photoshop (or Paint.net I think) and Trainz requires Paint.net to reskin. I wish RW was that simple, although RW is quicker for replacing horn sounds and engine sounds.

Everything I have done so far was done with Paint.net, RSBinTool, and DXTBmp. If you are familiar with Paint.net you are already most of the way there.

You can use any paint program. I just prefer Photoshop. I am using version 7.01 which is like 12 years old. I have the CS2 version but don't use it yet, I hate having to relearn the same program over and over. RW Tools is mainly for converting the files back and forth from DDS to tgcpxd or whatever they are.

buzz456 wrote:By the way that's one of the reasons I like the RWTools installer because you can look at the manual install and figure out what is supposed to be happening instead of the RWP where you have no idea what the installer is doing.

Of course you do. A rwp is just a slightly modified zip file.
I open them with 7zip, I don't use the package manager anymore.

Inside is the same kind of folders and files structure as the one produces by RW Tools.
All the setup program is doing is copying the whole contents to the Railworks folder.
Package manager does the same, and also keeps track of what packages you have installed.

They will also open with winRAR.

Learn something every day. Thanks guys.

Buzz

Talking relative merits of various paint programs...I have both Adobe CS2 PaintShop, Paint.NET, and Jasc Paintshop Pro. I have tryed following several re-paint tutorials but I alway get hung up trying to convert a full color DDS to a mono-chrome B/W to make the mask to use for swapping out the body colors. Would you mind explaining your technique to me how you accomplish that in Paint.net?

I would be very, very thankful. Really I would


Chacal

I am taking a page out of your book...the only way that I have successfully loaded various 3rd-Party content, like old routes, is using the Manual Method. After unpacking a .RWP or .RAR or .Z file to a spare directory, I usually get the uncompressed \Railworks\ folder that I can paruse for \assets\ of rolling stock or scenery or \contents\ of routes or scenarios. Then it is a simple matter of copy/paste to the proper Railworks subfolders. Easy Peasy.


OlPaint