Atomic Systems

If you make a 3D object such as the headlights and texture it the same colour as the background it is on, then from certain angles it will look like it isn't there, which is what JSReeves86 was getting at I think. This is why I always texture the sides of a 3D object a slightly darker shade of the c...

He does the official screenies for DTD. Hence why he has it.

Updated my site with the rare feature of 2 60s on southern metals. 60053 was caught on 6V38 Marchwood to Didcot at St. Cross (south of Winchester) and 60014 a few minutes later on 6O26 Hinksey to Eastleigh. 60014 was later snapped at Shawford on the return working to Hinksey. Weather wasn't particul...

The Horsham-Tunbridge Wells service, although operated by South Eastern uses Southern 377's from Selhurst. Really? I didn't know that, I thought it was a Southern service. I'm over in Tunbridge Wells from time to time and see this service, but assumed it was a Southern service, as it says on the PI...

Shot of 159102 on the run down to Salisbury captured by Chris Nevard.

http://nevardmedia.fotopic.net/p36477401.html

It looks subtly different! And good to see the orange door has been adopted as on the 442s, I expect the rest of the fleet will receive this modification.

Rich

Thanks for the comments.

Rich

Pictures of 60042 at Steventon, 31454 & 31602 at Worting Junction and some general shots in the Farnham area. http://www.southernrailwaypics.co.uk/ http://www.southernrailwaypics.co.uk/ASouthernAdventure23rdNovember/imgp4920_small.jpg http://www.southernrailwaypics.co.uk/ASouthernAdventure23rdNovemb...

That post was in late 2004 so I'm not surprised thumbs are missing. Basically it's London - Southampton fully unscenerised to put it simply! Yeah I've taken some of the later shots down, I think the shots on the first page are in my atmoic album, as it's a dead project no need to have them really. ...

Ah, and now the "for some reason becomes visible at greater distances" bits got you stumped then, so you don't really know how its been done ! I think I do, but thats what I pay people for, to do the clever bit ! But that is how MSTS works, not how you achieve it. One doesn't need to change anythin...

With pleasure. By making the size of the lense in the texture smaller, so that it doesn't take up the whole of the alpha square, combined with making the radius in the sigcfg.dat file bigger, means the lense is mapped over a larger area and for some reason becomes visible at greater distances. The s...

Yes

I downloaded it and had a look.

I've found in the signals that I've built (which is the same thing that MT have done now) that they are always brighter in view 4 and so you can see them better, but in views 1/2/3 they appear to not be as bright. There is a way to make them very bright, but unfortuantley there's some conflicting th...

Nice shots Chris. I have to say GE does look very nice, but there's one thing bothering me which I've seen in a number of shots of the route, the crossovers: [album 39357 sud2.jpg] Some of them are like that, they aren't proper. It's not too much of a problem, doens't look that bad, but when you sta...

Sounds great fun Dave, but you shoud've waited 30mins for 14:05 which would've been a pig, I know I would've, not difficult to occupy yourself at Waterloo for 1/2 hour. :) What was the ride like of the 'express 450'? Like you I've never done an express journey in a 450, I wouldn't have thought it's...

Completely agree with you there Dave, I think its true to say that many people who first saw EB-Rail and new of us thought "hmmm isn't that similar to E-Rail". Erm, I don't think thats what I meant. I certainly did not at any point think that, not until it was pointed out. I actually think that the...