[REL]Version 2012 of my rail vehicle packs

[K.Y.Chung]

It has the nickname "Pretty Woman"

[K.Y.Chung]

Finally the last one for the SS series pack is finished. It's the first Chinese made electric loco being put into production.

[K.Y.Chung]

I know what are you waiting for

[K.Y.Chung]

...and the pack itself of coz

[K.Y.Chung]

Something new again Here are the refrigerator cars for transporting foods. All of them are in company colors

[K.Y.Chung]

Then there are some boxcars for goods

[Lighthouse]

Are these cars like real chinese cargo boxcars?
edit found a website with some pics from chinese freightcars
http://www.trainfanz.com/trains_rolling ... car-P1.htm
or the start of the page; http://www.trainfanz.com/contents_english.HTML
And models
http://www3.telus.net/ChinaRail/Freight.html

[lobster]

These graphics are actually very good, they remind me of plastikman's or even Seelenquell's stuff in terms of quality. Will there be a full-on Chinese Rail pack or is it gonna be just separate releases?

[Densha]

It would be nice if you could at least place all your mods in one top post so that we won't miss out on some.

[K.Y.Chung]

Are these cars like real chinese cargo boxcars?
edit found a website with some pics from chinese freightcars
http://www.trainfanz.com/trains_rolling ... car-P1.htm
or the start of the page; http://www.trainfanz.com/contents_english.HTML
And models
http://www3.telus.net/ChinaRail/Freight.html

All of them are made from real models, and I've already specified the model of each car in the comment of the render preview The website above is one of the place where the references come from.

[K.Y.Chung]

These graphics are actually very good, they remind me of plastikman's or even Seelenquell's stuff in terms of quality. Will there be a full-on Chinese Rail pack or is it gonna be just separate releases?

They will be released as a separate pack, so there will be a total of 6 packs for China Railway:
CRH Pack (Highspeed rail) -> released last year
HXD Pack (AC traction electric locos)
SS Pack (DC traction electric locos)
DF Pack (Diesel-electric locos)
Passenger Car Pack
Freight Car Pack

[K.Y.Chung]

It would be nice if you could at least place all your mods in one top post so that we won't miss out on some.

I will consider doing so when I've finished my 2012 releases, then I will switch to make new churches at the start of next year.

[K.Y.Chung]

I've found the sprites generated unsatisfactory. I can hardly see the details on the van I've adjusted the contrast of the texture and fine tuned the lighting angle of the scene but it brings only little improvement

[lobster]

They might look better when they're down to the right scale though. Quite often models that don't look right larger look impeccable when re-sized to their target in-game size.

[K.Y.Chung]

I've heavily modified the textures again, but the color still look bad

[K.Y.Chung]

The quality of sprites has been improved by adapting a special palette to reduce color noise

[K.Y.Chung]

...also I've started compiling the sprites of tanker wagons

[Densha]

It looks better, but I still see noise unfortunately, presumably from the large amount of details you've done. Sometimes you really gotta hate the sprite rendering from this game.

[K.Y.Chung]

I took away most of the colors in the palette, leaving just gray and brown with different lightness. The cars are painted with brown color with low saturation, so gray pixels will be inserted for interpolation when PS try to adapt indexed color on them. I'm still trying to fine tune the color of the cars as well as considering to have the car bodies and other parts being rendered separately, if the world doesn't come to it's end tomorrow

[K.Y.Chung]

That's all of the tanker wagons, but it's still far away from completing the whole freight car collection