New South Wales Rail Set[Testers Needed!]

[Kruz]

coalroads artist: Seriously, you have to split up posts when you write so long ones. Its very hard and unmotivating to read it when its all sticked together like that...

Anyway. If someone would PM me a pic of an engine you want drawn Ill have a go at it.
Keep in mind though that Im not a great artist like Purno or Signaporekid or so many others here, ive only made a few graphics before, most of which are in my sig. So if you like what you see and you need a few engines drawn Ill be happy to help!

[BobDendry]

OK. I get it. Hmmm. I didn't read any conditions either.
[edit] a -semi- new train is on the way. Heres a preview

[Villem]

Hmmm i hope ya asked Purno before starting to recolour his work. Btw, Narrow gauge is a rather useful feature, i suggest you go for it as you can tell AI to use it in certain services when Alpha 39 comes out.

[ttdx_artist]

WHI: What exactly is it supposed to be?

BTW... i have decided that I will continue my services here as an artist, I would prefer if some people tho would stop and consider things before judging them, and at least try them before putting in a final word. Perhaps we can try different things, and test them... then make a vote and choose that way? Seeing as this is a Standard Gauge set, I have re-routed the AUSSET as a VR/Broad Gauge set (as DanMacK requested) for the time being. I am sorry that i can be jumpy at times, but we all need to consider options first, ATM we have no active coders, and while we agrue on something as trivial as Gauge's, nothing gets drawn. And maybe when the 2 sets are done we can combine. I have asked Zimmlock to draw buildings for us, he said that if we send pics of them, he will give them a go in his spare time.

[BobDendry]

Now, a -semi- new train. When they were first brought into service, V and c sets used a red colour scheme. Here is the end result. Many thanks to Purno for creating the basis of this and for allowing me to post it. And here it is:
-I cant upload the file at the moment. weird. Ill post it later

[ttdx_artist]

they weren't red, they were a deep scarlet/tuscan...you need to shade them darker, and purno needs to make new ends, they need to be more rounded

[mdhowe]

I've finally finished the repaint of the XPT and while I was at it I added a line of pixels to horizontal view of the cabin because it was too short compared to the engine. I also drew some Aussie trees, let us know what you think.

[BobDendry]

I've finally finished the repaint of the XPT and while I was at it I added a line of pixels to horizontal view of the cabin because it was too short compared to the engine. I also drew some Aussie trees, let us know what you think.

Well, I like the XPT. it appears to be little more shaded then last time we saw it:)
The trees dont look to bad either.
EDIT: just reading the local railfan's website, and the Newcastle-Maitland 620/720 Railcars will be phased out next year in favor for so called "Hunter Cars". As soon as the information is finalised, I will look at including it in the set.

[ttdx_artist]

mdhowe: you may want to see this, because you need to repaint your XPT, look at where the light blue lines finish on the loco, now, look where yours finish. Only a small adjustment, but i thought you might want to do it yourself so you can take full credit.

Also, the light blue lines aren't on the coaches and where they finish on the loco, you can see that the white cab colour is changed to a silver to match the coaches.

[ttdx_artist]

Purno: ok, here's the c-set or whatever they're called that you drew, and i've fixed them up,but i don't really have the time to do other angles at the moment, so if you could complete these it would be great, now you must pay attention to this ok!

This is in the order of the pic;

1: I know nothing of this colour scheme, the first i saw of it was what you drew, but don't worry about the CityRail logo on the front of the cab, most of them didn't have it.
2: These were just plain stainless steel, but with a Yellow Front for high visability, no logo's or emblems.
3: Again just plain Stainless Steel all over. But note the roof has the older style long exhaust fan over the cab.
4: These were stainless as the last 2 were, but with a dark/medium blue strip through the middle and the L7 symbol (which looks like a 7 with an upside down reverse 7 on top of it, I'll try to find some pics) in the dead centre of the car, they had a yellow line at platform height for safety reasons along the side of the car, the blue strip didn't continue on to the cab tho, it stopped at the edge, but the yellow line goes the whole way round.
5: Light Blue with a White Band, the White Band goes all the way around the cab at the same height. It also had a grey roof and the old style exhaust fan.
6: Tuscan all over, at close look you'll notice that the row of pixels 3rd and 4th from the bottom are the same colour, thats because it was plain flat steel and not corigated.

I have included the panto's as well for you, and you don't need to put them down for the trailer car because they were rarely used like this.
I'm sure you will have fun with this, should be a piece of cake for you, just pay attention to the roof for vents/exhaust/colour and you'll be fine.
And all the cabs are the same as you've done previously.

Thanx mate, have fun!

[BobDendry]

Im very interested in the different colour schemes. The first one is the V Set, which is the train which goes between sydney and newcastle. I don't have any pictures on hand at the moment though.

[Raichase]

The strange symbol you mention is the "Cityrail" symbol, and let me say, you drew it *very* well, when you consider the size of the train in question! Very nice work!

[ttdx_artist]

HMMM, i thought it was pretty good myself, lol... i have 2 pics here, but the .gif i found the logo has the colours oppisite to what i'm used to seeing, i don't think thst either is wrong, but it was someting that concerned me. anyway here's the logo, and a close up of my logo.

[ttdx_artist]

well i got bored with my QR EMU, so i decided to redraw it, hope you all like.

[coalroads artist]

sorry about the big posts but this is is a forum isn't it, i'll try and make posts more user friendly.Great to see TTDX artist aboard again,glad to have another artist and railfan to help as ive realised how much work it is involved in producing one loco.

I finished the DL500B Alco (44/930).liveries-tuscan,candy,Australian national, commonwealth railways.
stats-112t, 1800hp, 204KN ,125km/hr, 1957 intro, standard ,random livery.(exhaust from slot in front of cooling fan)

I'm a bit worried that set is looking for coders i thought we had coders,it's hard spending hours drawing and i mean hours (other artists would know what i mean) and not knowing if it will be coded one day, takes away the motivation.I guess this were i should put sprites but do all threads do it,i don't remember seeing all sprite sets on other threads but have not looked properly.

Questions-how many random liveries on locos available or is too much work for coder? (48 could have about 8 inclu DA style)

-how high can sprites be ?(well wagons cons should tower over locos were there is no brigdes)

ideas-Batwing coal hoppers with proper 100ton cap (use TTD Alter coal mines) makes use of locos on shorter trains.
-tilted flatbed steel wagons
-4 wheel coal hoppers/RU(GY is it for VR) grain hoppers

Finnishing:How about that QR tilt train,fastest narrow gauge train in world and when it derails (crap on tracks or overspeed) not one person was killed, a testiment to our engineers!

[ttdx_artist]

CoalRoads: Don't worry about coders, we do have some that are busy, i think Szappy was willing to help, but because of such sets as the JAPset etc, it is hard to get them aboard. And we will get them coded, even if it means i have to learn how to code, btw... do you mind if i have a play around with your 44/930 Class graphics, i want to see how hard it would be to make them slightly longer.

Also here's a 3900 Class QR electric that i'm working on, but i'm not happy with the side view, it looks too flat, if someone wants to try and better it, pease do so.

[mdhowe]

Great work, ttdxartist & coalroads! I will fix up the XPT on the weekend, I´m also thinking about doing the olympics livery and maybe the centenary of federation livery as well.But before I do that I want to find out how many liveries are possible for each train. Coders??

[coalroads artist]

TTDX artist:Wich view do you intend to change because i've already seen the loco in game and it looks alright execpt it needs to be longer in / views but cannot be changed because it will overlap and that dosn't look so good.Its better being short ,the only possibility is maybey one sprite longer but for what difference!I had a good look at my 44 profile and it seems to be pretty close.

[Raichase]

Great work, ttdxartist & coalroads! I will fix up the XPT on the weekend, I´m also thinking about doing the olympics livery and maybe the centenary of federation livery as well.But before I do that I want to find out how many liveries are possible for each train. Coders??

From what I have gleamed from talking to code-friendly-people, I understand that you can have it appearing in a "random livery" when you build it - ie if you drew it in the 3 liveries you wanted, countrylink, olympics and federation, and during certain time periods, it would choose the livery randomly when built. People could just buy and sell locos until they got one in the livery they wanted...

But don't take my word for it, thats just what I have heard .

[krtaylor]

From what I have gleamed from talking to code-friendly-people, I understand that you can have it appearing in a "random livery" when you build it - ie if you drew it in the 3 liveries you wanted, countrylink, olympics and federation, and during certain time periods, it would choose the livery randomly when built. People could just buy and sell locos until they got one in the livery they wanted...

Actually, you can do pretty much anything with the liveries.

- You can have liveries that appear only during certain years.
- You can have liveries of different probabilities, e.g. one livery that's very unlikely and others that are more likely
- You can have multiheaded locos automatically match whatever the livery of the first one is
- You can have locos always stay in whatever their original livery was for as long as they live, or you can have them repainted at a particular year (e.g. from Big Four livery to BR livery, in the Brit set)
- You can offer different liveries as refit options (I think, that's new, not sure how it works)
- You can have the livery change randomly when it loads/unloads (dunno why you'd want to do that with a loco though)
- You can have cars match the livery of the loco (or not, or change independently at different times)

And other things that I've forgot. Pretty much anything you'd reasonably want them to do, you can.