AngryMozart's BAT symphonies

[blade2k5 1,523]

Because the system works better here.  Average open highway speed limit nowadays is 70mph in most states, (think Cali is still 65^, Nevada is 80 and a couple or three at 75), up from 65 from about the turn of the century and up from 55 before that, which nearly no-one followed except all the goody-two-shoes out there.  Why change something that's working just fine? is probably why we don't go metric.

On 3/31/2018 at 10:54 PM, Angry Mozart said:

Oh,  it is in miles per hour, 55 mph are like 89 kmh (That's a little bit slow in my country, but here, speed limits are more like a sugestion than a restriction). For some reason in the US they still use the imperial system, and most of their signage is in imperial units (miles, mph,  etc.), specifying only when using metric units, like this one:

 

 

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

@blade2k5 Yes, most of the highways in the US has an average speed of 70-80 mph, I decided to go on 55 mph due to a song ( I Can't drive 55 by Sammy Hagar). Also I agree, if it's working fine, why change it?

Talking about other things, I have finished the first auto-ramp that @redfox85 requested:

This is the ramp to access to the first level or the autorack floor level. I'll make the rest within the next hour or so. What do you think?

[redfox85 659]

I love it!

[blade2k5 1,523]

37 minutes ago, Angry Mozart said:

@blade2k5 Yes, most of the highways in the US has an average speed of 70-80 mph, I decided to go on 55 mph due to a song ( I Can't drive 55 by Sammy Hagar). Also I agree, if it's working fine, why change it?

Talking about other things, I have finished the first auto-ramp that @redfox85 requested:

This is the ramp to access to the first level or the autorack floor level. I'll make the rest within the next hour or so. What do you think?

I was going to mention that, listen to it every once in awhile.  We used to joke when asked how long it took us drive from LA to SF, our answer would be something like 'we made it on only 4 speeding tickets' back in the day when the national speed limit went down to 55 four decades ago.  Hardly anyone drove that slow, especially Sammy.  What a long, boring drive that is too.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

@blade2k5 Yes, it's indeed a long boring drive. I've been reading and I found that there are night speed limits and truck speed limits. How common are those speed limits?

@redfox85 I'm glad you like them. Here there are the rest of them:

They look pretty much the same, but they are different as shown below. Also, I took the freedom to make a couple of autoracks with doors open:

I thought they may serve you as well. Also notice that there are ramps for each autorack level, and IMO, they look fabulous when they're merged on a scene like this:

I hope you like them!

[blade2k5 1,523]

I know in Illinois semis are only allowed to do 55, as far as anywhere else in the states, I'm not sure.  I know here in Wisconsin it's 70 for all vehicles, including semis, but most semis keep it at 65 to conserve fuel for their long trips.  I used to work for a trucking company ( I detailed cleaned the trucks, inside and out) here in Tomahawk and cost the owner 16k a month for fuel so he was very insistent that his drivers go no faster than 65.

[redfox85 659]

@Angry Mozart Those look excellent ! But when I did my carport... I did wonder where the TTX autoracks where. 

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

@blade2k5 Thanks, this info will be useful in the future when making some road signs.

@redfox85 Oh, I think I forgot about them when making the autoracks. It will be a nice addon if I ever update the freight trains prop pack.

[twalsh102 1,601]

If you're really interested in the variations in speed limits across the US, this article is a good read:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States_by_jurisdiction.

According the the article, the current fastest posted speed limit in the US is 85 MPH on a section of toll road in Texas.  Currently, 9 states have separate Truck speed limits on the books.  Some states have differing speed limits based on load (i.e. hazardous  vs. non-hazardous cargo. 

Night-time speed limits are very common on rural roads where visibility is often restricted by terrain, and/or vegetation, and along wildlife migration corridors.  Bombing down some back-country road at 65 or 70 MPH at night (or any time for that matter) and encountering something as large as a moose (adult males weigh up to 1,500 lbs or more) in the middle of the road doesn't usually end well for the vehicle or its driver.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

@twalsh102 Thanks! This information is very useful. really aprecciated. 

I'll get back to work as soon as I reinstall BAT and other tools I need (my computer died, fortunately, I have a backup, but I need to get those programs again). 

[Harry's Place 918]

Sir your work is amazing. It would be amazing if you can make those creations as MMPs also. Regarding the car ramps and autoracks. I had no ideea that there are covered ones  

Also south of my city i've found an abandoned ramp to unload cars from trains. Interesting thing is that is fixed.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

1 hour ago, Urban Constanta said:

Also south of my city i've found an abandoned ramp to unload cars from trains. Interesting thing is that is fixed.

It may have been used with train cars that have a movable ramp. I don't know much about trains, but current train cars for car transport seem to be rather static (it would make sense because adding a ramp to each and every train car would result in redundancy and cost increase), but then again the ramp in your photo seems to be rather old, too.

[Harry's Place 918]

Yes it's very old from the 60s or 70s. BTW in my country they use this kind of trains for car transport

 

 

[jaredh 195]

On 4/7/2018 at 11:47 AM, twalsh102 said:

According the the article, the current fastest posted speed limit in the US is 85 MPH on a section of toll road in Texas.  Currently, 9 states have separate Truck speed limits on the books.  Some states have differing speed limits based on load (i.e. hazardous  vs. non-hazardous cargo. 

Ah yes, the Austin/San Antonio super toll.   That road is amazing. 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

@Urban Constanta they Car carrying freight cars in America used to look like that, but due to high rates of vandalism they started to close up the freight cars.

This is what the American ones looked like.

[jaredh 195]

I haven't seen one like that since the 1970s.

[Harry's Place 918]

Man all those beauties <3 <3 <3 

[MikeMiller2000 2]

I love the level of detail in the models, keep up the great work!

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

Hi everyone. It's been a long long time since I was active, I'm sorry, I'm working on my thesis this year, so I have not had the time to reply to new posts, and probably I won't have it in a long time. As you can see, I've already released the trucks and trailers prop pack, you can find it here:

Also I'm working on some other things, but as I have little time in this moment of my life and I don't know when I could post here again. Anyhow, thank you for all of your help and patience, I made this prop pack for you, enjoy it.

[redfox85 659]

So nice to see those !!! I need to find some time to add them to my seaport now ! 

[tigerbuilder 131]

Your schoolwork is far more important. Don't worry about us. I hope you return when you can. You are a creative batter with excellent works. Good luck on your thesis.

Cheers, tiger

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

Hello comrades, I came back from a long, long sleep haha. These last months were busy as hell, but now I have some spare time to get back to work on a few things that were getting rust. These last years I've been inspired by American Truck Simulator and that's why I've made a truck-trailer prop pack, and then I decided to make a US highway signs pack. In previous post I've showed a few signs. Now I have a lots of them, here are some examples:

and much more:

From speed limits to pedestrian signs, these lots try to improve a little bit the look of the highways. Also I've made three types of exit ramp signs:

These signs works for type A and type B NAM ramps. I have also four chevron signs for 90° curves:

These signs were made for different  curvature radius: 1x1, 2x2, 4x4 and 5x5. Also they have a version without guardrailings

As for now, I have 103 different signs distributed in 47 lots, In the next post I will make a list of the whole pack. Tell me what do you think.

[CT14 2,486]

Glad you can spend some time with us! I love the guardrails and the orange bumpers! Maybe even a version with more bumpers, like 6-10 at once is common.

For the Curve signs, I feel like I usually see that set up with all of the signs parallel to each other for each direction. It's difficult to explain. Basically half of the signs would point one direction and the other half the other way, with each half only being visible from one side. Does that make sense?

[rivit 3,402]

I like them - especially given we can make some rather tight bends in SC4

They're just like the ones in this picture - so we only need one set regardless of Left or Right side driving.

- the signs are visible from both directions - two arrows to a pole each facing the other way.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

@CT14 Thanks, I'll make a version with more orange bumpers

6 hours ago, CT14 said:

For the Curve signs, I feel like I usually see that set up with all of the signs parallel to each other for each direction. It's difficult to explain. Basically half of the signs would point one direction and the other half the other way, with each half only being visible from one side. Does that make sense?

I think I know what you mean, at first I had them like that, but then I figured that only half of them would be visible in a curve, so I went with this other configuration.

@rivit Yeah, pretty thight curves, and thank you for the pic.

3 hours ago, rivit said:

so we only need one set regardless of Left or Right side driving

Yeah, I built them thinking about that. I'm a little bit of a lazy so I didn't wanted to do left and right versions.

[CT14 2,486]

I totally feel you on that. Rivit's picture is exactly what I was talking about - thanks @rivit.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

Hi everyone

My most recent creation are now avaliable on the STEX, and I'm working on some other things that might showcase soon. Last time I said I was back, but I wasn't. I've been busy these months, and I lost interest in the game, but I'm proud to say that I almost finish my career and now I have a lot of spare time and that I'm inspired again to make some new BATs. Will keep you updated. Meanwhile, enjoy my recent creation.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

I decided to expand my train props with more cars, and this time I wanted to experiment with articulated cars, begining with the Gunderson MAXI-IV 53 ft 3-unit well car, with TTX and BNSF liveries as shown on the pic below:

These will come as a single unit rendered orthogonally, with each individual unit (A,C,B) rendered in all configurations. The next articulated car will be the  53' All-Purpose Spine Car and probably the 57'-Twin 28' spine car, I don't know yet. Also, I've been working on some 20', 40' and 53' containers but that's a topic for another post.

The next part of this post focuses on locomotives, which will be the mayority of the prop pack update. Up to this moment I've only finished the SD70ACe with BNSF, CN, CSX, FXE, KCS, KCSM, NS, and UP liveries. Also, the SD40-2 its on the way.

What do you think?

[redfox85 659]

You'll need to make a cargo ship soon with all those intermodal parts  (... and maybe some 20 foot containers) They look really really great.

[Angry Mozart 1,199]

Might do it sometime, I think there's a lot that can be done about intermodal equipment, also I already have a lot of 20' containers, I will post them in the following days.

But now, these are fresh from the oven: the 5-unit 53 ft Spine Car.

This is what they look with some dryvans:

but it's just a preview, I haven't export them to the game, they still need a little bit of work. I think this is the longest prop I've made.