Track Texture

Backfoot2002 · Post by **Backfoot2002** » 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:

steveenefer · Post by **steveenefer** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:14 pm

Looks great Anton

colinm74 · Post by **colinm74** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:19 pm

That's looking great!

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:55 am

Not bad mate!

bdy26 · Post by **bdy26** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:08 am

Very nice! As good as anything I've seen, if not better.

buffy500 · Post by **buffy500** » 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.

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:51 am

yeah, looks great, but as dave said, those bands do look a bit weird though

jascott · Post by **jascott** » 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

Backfoot2002 · Post by **Backfoot2002** » 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:

daandmda · Post by **daandmda** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:58 pm

Me likey!

Hymek · Post by **Hymek** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:00 am

i'd say that is rather good

NiallGray · Post by **NiallGray** » 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?

Backfoot2002 · Post by **Backfoot2002** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:46 pm

NiallGray wrote:Looking good. Do you know if it could work replacing 3rd rail track like in EB's LSC?

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.

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:00 pm

NiallGray wrote:Looking good. Do you know if it could work replacing 3rd rail track like in EB's LSC?

If you applie a new track texture to that texture, it will still keep the 3rd rail!

I dont think its part of the track texture.

A different shape!

Cheers

Ali