Sr1 progress - engine room

I have started to shape up the first air section where brake class selector is located. This will probably be the last update this year. This year was pretty productive and lot of progress was made. I hope the first playable beta of locomotive would be out next year.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Started to model the other end of engine room.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added more details to mid section and adjusted the lights to more realistic lighting levels. Note that everything is still untextured.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added safety grating doors and few pipes to ceiling.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added more details to middle section.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Shaping the safety casing of transformer section around the corridor. Air goes to blowers through those vents.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Today I modelled compressor section with main compressor, its drive, smaller aux compressor and air drying unit to ceiling. Because there will be safety grating doors, minor details can be left out as only outlines will be visible.

 

Sr1 progress - engine room

Today I added few details and ABB transducer to ATC-rack.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added pantograph valve to ceiling. Basically you have only one handle per locomotive that you can attach to either  pantograph valves at opposite ends or grounding switch at the middle. Thus in principle you cannot raise pantograph while the locomotive is grounded and cause short circuit.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added few details to air frame #2. Those levers are related to safety device and towing the locomotive.

Sr1 progress - engine room

Added basic structure to compressed air section # 2. Yellow box in middle is center unit for ATC.
I also modelled urinal which is speciality of Sr1 locomotives.

Hkb progress

Finalized wheel sets.

Building Sr1 interior

Added blower electric motor and started to shape compressor.

Hkb - progress

Added even more details and started modelling wheel supports.

Hkb - progress

Added few details.

Hkb

Today I started to make Hkb-wagon as test load for physics testing of Sr1. Hkb has been used in finnish freight trains for many decades in numerious cargo roles. Nowdays they can often be found as safety buffers between locomotives and tank wagons containing hazardous materials.

Sr1 progress - cabin expansion

Since the new version of Train Simulator allows more cabin camera viewpoints I am expanding this project to full prototypical setup where you have to toggle all levers and knobs yourself on cold start. On left side  you can see the heart of the locomotive:  main 5771 kVA transformer from Soviet Union.

(If you have any photographs of this corridor or maintenance corridor I will gladly accept any pictures to my email: sama1@hotmail.fi in finnish or english.)

Sr1 progress - it lives!

Today I managed to move the locomotive first time in game with very basic controllers and no sound. Time to move to the next stage: sounds and functionality. TS2014's FOV slider is nice toy to play with:

Sr1 progress - cabin

After many hours I managed to get the weather glass map somewhat smaller. Contrary to the otherwise fine tutorials at ChrisTrains the rain drops seem to be independent of texture size/resolution. What matters is assigned UV space, thus to get smallest water drops you have to scale that part in UV editor to fill most of the space, using multiple bitmaps if necessary.

Sr1 progress - cabin

The retexturing process is approaching its end and soon I can start implementing the functionality and sounds to the locomotive. Here is a night cabin shot in rain.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Its raining today...(still have to reduce the drop size a bit)

(Also I am trying to find realistic gamma values for textures)

Sr1 progress - cabin

Texturing miscellaneous stuff around cab. Very slow work. If anyone has close up photographs of fuse box/windscreen heating selector mounted on observers side of control desk then I'll gladly accept them by email: sama1@hotmail.fi .  

Sr1 cabin - progress - reverser

Today I retextured lever base of reverser.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Today I managed to get texturing well underway. Levers are currently in MudBox getting edge dirt:

Edit: also tested new mesh in TS2014:

Sr1 progress - cabin

Brake valves are almost finished, time for texturing.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Added some detailing such as locking grooves that you can hear as crackling sound when lever is moved.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Work on improving drivers brake valves proceeds a hour on a day basis. Today I added some details and reshaped the handle.

Back in action - Sr1 progress

I had really busy September with other projects so this the second and last update this month. Because brake levers are something that player is going to use alot and I managed to find better reference for them I am remodelling them based on accurate drawings with real dimensions.

If you need drawings for Knorr brake units such as the D2 in pic, visit:
http://www.bremsenbude.de/

Sr1 progress - cabin

Altough there were  no updates last week I spent 10 hours modelling and 16 hours rendering  to improve outer walls of cockpit. We are getting there slowly but surely...

Sr1 progress - cabin

Added more stuff to back wall and made container(right side on pic) for windscreen washer fluid. Tomorrow hopefully I can re-render the wall of whole cockpit and tone it bit down.

Sr1 progress- cabin

Today I textured side mounted gauge rack and sun screens.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Added few switches, premiliary window reflection and tweaked texturing.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Today I revised the textures of indicator lights and added timetable book.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Played bit with desk texture, added some gradient and dissolved metal texture to create illusion of brushed metal.

Sr1 progress - cabin

I have added 319 textured bolt heads to various locations in cab. Still have to tone down some.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Few more bits retextured.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Side console and brake levers got new textures today.

Sr1 progress - Cabin

Today observers seat and fire extinguishers got premiliary texture.

Sr1 progress- cabin

Today only a small update to celebrate the coming TS 2014. It's a Salora-receiver with VR Modifications sticker.

Sr1 progress - cabin texturing

Today I retextured few more instruments to TS2013 standards.

Sr1 progress - control desk

Small update to control desk texturing in cabin. I tried to render reflections with raytracing material in 3ds but it was way too slow so I added some manually with Photoshop.

Sr1 progress - cabin

Today I have been texturing and remapping the control desk. Some switches are still in wrong place. Here is creation of rust and dirt in Mudbox: