Flying Scotsman 1.0

Holy mackerel, Batman, it is the Flying Scotsman! Thanks, this is great, just what I need.

In fact I have been thinking to do something similar, but I don't have the skill for it. (yet ) Althought I would have loved to see Greasley's Teak coaches, but MK1s will do fine.

Too bad that it is not possible to mix different passenger coaches. Or it is possible to mix but then it is a mix as the game can't recognise right engine to right coach. Then again this one could be a high speed train using the HSR. After all the Flying Scotsman was high speed train of its time. And then leave normal RRW for local trains.

Anyway, I would like to thank your effort. Your German trains have been my standard train mod and now this one nicely complements those. I did not rate this as I haven't test it in the game. My current test city doesn't no have railways. But I did open it in iLives reader to study and learn. When I have more time, I want to learn to make automatas. The wheels and rods animation seems to be a series of pictures.

One thing though. I hope you don't find my question rude, but is the texture of the engine based on photos of a  railway model?

Thanks for your comments Bombardiere - I do actually have the teak ones in work in progress but texture data is hard to come by. As for the engine texture its made up of about 5 different ones - models, model photos, real train photos and my drawings. Its very hard to get photo material in profile so I usually have to identikit the textures by pasting bits and pieces together. The model has also simplified a bit to try and keep the number of triangles down.

The wheels are basically a set of animation frames shown quickly in order to make it look like they are moving. The mesh is made by hand and could still be improved quite a bit. It also still has a mesh to render smoke like my German engines but instead I've put on the MAXIS smoke effect. Don't Edit and Save this in Reader or the smoke will stop working. 

The game can only match engines and carriages so if you have more than one engine its fine because a train only has one, but if you have more than one set of carriages they get all mixed up. The game doesn't have any idea of matching engines and carriages.

These carriages look OK behind the German Engines - the German stock is slightly taller and wider.  The German carriages will also look ok behind these engines. But the carriages mixed together looks a bit strange.

Ron

Good Job RVT

But the train no nightlight

only headlight?

Yes Fanta - that and quite a few other things need to be fixed with it..

As you've prolly noticed from my 5 star review and my like on the file I love this.

Two things I've noticed (and it might just be game glitches) are that it sometimes appears with the engine only and another times without its green paint scheme:

@CorinaMarie - a bit late in response I know - the black one was an extra I made for variation which you must have put in plugins with the main one. The glitch at the top - the game sometimes keeps ghosts on save - but to be honest, I've no idea why.  

Very good work. I like. But the steam from the locomotive is not visible. There are also no illuminated windows on the train cars. Please update the mod.