What size should the accompanying picture be for UKTrainSim?

[RedTez]

I 'printed the screen' - messed about with the images - saved as a jpeg and on reflection, realised 1024X768 is too big and impractical for the accompanying picture. It stretches the sites framing structure so that a slide bar appears down along the bottom and generally messes up the layout of UKTrainsim. Anyone know what size ideally they should be please??

Best Regards

ReD

P.S. Are there any reference sites for wagons online that i need to be aware of?? I need dimensional drawings to build my own wagon type. Since I am currently very familiar with the process of producing 8plank wagons - are there any particularly needing modelling?? - just gimme an image or two!! I then hope to move on to a new wagon type!!

As always - many thanks in advance!!

[buffy500]

If you are talking about a screen shot to go with an upload, I think I make mine 800x600 max.

[saddletank]

RedTez - I have zillions of PO open wagon images, many of the same quality as the last two. Most are up to the 1920s (some in the 1930s). Drop me an email if you have any preferences for diff parts of the country, any particular companies.

The two you did have come out very well but I've sent you some notes on them in a separate email.

[RedTez]

800X600 it will be from now on Thanks for the info Buffy500.

Thanks for the email SadlleTank - yeah send me somemore pictures, lol. I will be modelling wagons for a while whilst i coax 3dCanvas to play nice!!

Sorry about the errors you so informatively pointed out. I dont mind that in the least. Hehehe - i did copy the photos for most of it but copying photos whilst battling with the beast that is 3dmodelling, my attention was inadvertantly diverted.

Getting models to be exactly true to their real counterparts will be my next lesson. Lol. I thought they were pretty good aesthetically - i missed the historical accuracy (to be honest i knew no better), working from a single photo and having no prior railway knowledge in the least, i was incapable of 100% accurate renditions.

Rest assured, i will try harder next time. Hope you still enjoy them until i sort them out 'historically' i will sort them in the next day or so. This is being a strange learning curve, just when you think you have it, 3DCanvas turns awkward and everything breaks. Get that put right and think you have finished to find you got some historical points completely wrong!!

Best Regards All

[buffy500]

Getting models to be exactly true to their real counterparts will be my next lesson. Lol. I thought they were pretty good aesthetically - i missed the historical accuracy (to be honest i knew no better), working from a single photo and having no prior railway knowledge in the least, i was incapable of 100% accurate renditions.

That sounds just like me. Show me a photo and I'm off, I just don't know much about what it actually is.

[RedTez]

Hopefully all is now well - hopefully.

Let me know if there is anything else?

Best Regards All

ReD

[NeutronIC]

Always upload album pictures as a JPG - we only added GIF support under duress from users of Dear Diary. Due to licensing costs we can't install the GIF manipulation library for PHP, so if you upload a GIF file then it will have no thumbnail.

If you upload a JPG then we can autogenerate the thumbnail for it - and it's the thumbnail that should appear on the front page.

A GIF file however would just return the full image when asked for the thumbnail.

Matt.

[saddletank]

Matt, I don't think it was RedTez who put up the huge pic of the tube-train type map. Red was talking about his wagon shots for the 2 coal wagons.

Red - you'll soon get the hang of things, and learn to ignore me coz I'm a fussy b*****d at times, wanting extra historical detail when the model is in fact perfectly sound!

I won't comment on the Mars wagon (fictinal liveries aren't my cuppa) but the two Welsh ones are really very good models indeed, better than the only two attempts I did (early LMS and LNER liveries) which Dave Bran eventually reworked so they looked sensible!

[RedTez]

I think your comments were very helpful, the model does look better now!! However, nobody told me the cambrian had a painted end door!! Lol

I best add it, also, the Cambrian appears to be a 7plank in the photo

Different size etc

I will produce a few more fictitious wagons but i will mainly concentrate on authentic models. Do you have any more PO wagon photos, particularly anything you wanted to see modelled?? Preferably 8plnk at the mo as i am concentrating on this type of wagon!! Thanks again for your input and original photos

Best Regards All

ReD

[mikesimpson]

I will produce a few more fictitious wagons but i will mainly concentrate on authentic models. Do you have any more PO wagon photos, particularly anything you wanted to see modelled?? Preferably 8plnk at the mo as i am concentrating on this type of wagon!! Thanks again for your input and original photos

Best Regards All

ReD

Hi RedTez,

I have some scale drawings of 8 plank PO wagons with correct sizes on them. If you are interested, I will email them to you if you let me have your email address.

These were used to model the set of 22 8-plank wagons I uploaded to the library here about a year ago. However they are a bit high in the polys these days as they had properly modeled chassis and wheels.

[johndibben]

I use 512x380 jpegs for screenshots as they appear quicker and are OK for most things

[TomB]

I am thinking of doing a large collection of PO wagons in different liverys..... IF I can get my head round Gmax

[johndibben]

I'm sure they would be very popular .... the confectionary concession's taken though

They're very good though