Specular test

Today I figured out that you can actually define texture specular level of a material in material editor. It gives bit more realism if not overdone like in this effect demonstration pic.

Sr1 progress

Current hot weather has limited progress a bit but today I managed to make 4 hours of improvements to the frontal section of model. It is quite fun to play with the Railworks lighting model.

Something totally different

To keep projects interesting I have to deviate to some totally random things at times. Here is a picture of finnish traffic sign set from 60's. I got inspiration from one surviving sign in the forest.

Sr1 game test

Today I continued exporting different parts of Sr1 model and remapped chassis boxes for batteries etc. Currently the model is only using a scenery blueprint so it doesn't move in the game.

Scenery objects

Today I also started making one of the most difficult yet most common scenery object: tree. I selected pine as first. Difficulty with trees comes from the fact that trees are very very complex entities and since there are huge amount of them in a typical scenery the polygon amount should not be too much. I have tried SpeedTree as possible solution for making trees but I wasn't satisfied with results so I decided to build one from scratch. After I had premiliary trunk ready I started with projecting detailed version of one branch to very simple model.

Pic 1. Initial 35000 polygon model of a branch.

Pic 2. Projected texture of tree building blocks

 Pic 3. Projected texture on simple 24 polygon model

Pic 4. Many branches combined from simple branch building blocks

Pic 5. Trees in railworks

Sr1 test export

Today I remapped bogies and exported them to Railworks. Starts to look nice.

Sr1 test export

I made second test export with new texture set. It seems there is too much gloss this time.

Sr1 progress

Today I added few details for SA-3 automatic coupler and textured buffer area. With some luck I should be able to test export the model to Railworks today.