Track Texture
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:33 pm
Was having play with some track textures seeing what I could do, just wanted to see what people think:
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:14 pm
Looks great Anton
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:19 pm
That's looking great! 
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:55 am
Not bad mate!
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:08 am
Very nice! As good as anything I've seen, if not better.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:19 am
Looks like there is light and dark bands on the ballast, when it repeats it looks a bit strange. Great other than that though.
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:51 am
yeah, looks great, but as dave said, those bands do look a bit weird though
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:35 pm
The problem with track .ace files is that they are small (each one only covers about 5 yds of track) and therefore tiled very often. This means that any slight variation in the colouring of the texture is magnified greatly.
Although it is not prototypical, a texture which is uniform in colour/shade etc tends to look better. I tried a texture once which had pieces of litter etc and looked great on its own, but once in the sim there was a Coke tin every 5 yards.
With a little adjustment to remove the banding effect the texture will look great.
John
Although it is not prototypical, a texture which is uniform in colour/shade etc tends to look better. I tried a texture once which had pieces of litter etc and looked great on its own, but once in the sim there was a Coke tin every 5 yards.
With a little adjustment to remove the banding effect the texture will look great.
John
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:21 pm
Thank you all for the advice. I got some more pictures when I was in Rotherham last weekend and tried again, got rid of the banding effect. Here are some shots of the improved version:
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:58 pm
Me likey!
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:00 am
i'd say that is rather good 
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:33 am
Looking good. Do you know if it could work replacing 3rd rail track like in EB's LSC?
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:46 pm
I guess the main part should do, its just a matter of finding where the 3rd rail texture is taken from and getting that sorted. If anyone would like the texuture beforehand, just drop me a PM and I will send it. Just need to see if it works correctly on other peoples computers too.NiallGray wrote:Looking good. Do you know if it could work replacing 3rd rail track like in EB's LSC?
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:00 pm
If you applie a new track texture to that texture, it will still keep the 3rd rail!NiallGray wrote:Looking good. Do you know if it could work replacing 3rd rail track like in EB's LSC?
I dont think its part of the track texture.
A different shape!
Cheers
Ali