*Please do not comment on the alignment or on the liveries. This is a mock-up solely for the comparison of the size of the train compared to the rails. Feel free to comment on how the actual sprites look as that is always helpful!
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Well, let the facts speak. If we compare Swiss NG and SG locos of the same era, we get:Voyager One wrote:So, same outer dimensions, different gauge... and I'm pretty sure these aren't the only examples in the world.
Agreed. But as I said, I think the way to solve this is to act on the rails, not on the train.AndersI wrote: The obvious visual aspect of NG in real life is the fact that the train is much wider than the rail. In fact, it looks like the train could tip off the rail in any curve, almost 50% of the train is outside the rails...
That is not at all present in snail's suggestion above.
do you have pictures here what you mean? how would odd-pixel-gauges look combined with even-pixel-wide vehicles?michael blunck wrote:[on dimensions]
The main idea was to use original TTD gauge (9px) for broad gauge, 7px for standard gauge, 5px for narrow-gauge (whatever special gauge that might be), and 3px for any sort of "Feldbahn/Decauville" (any very narrow NG, ~600mm, mainly used for agricultural, forestry, or industrial railwways, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldbahn).
k.michael blunck wrote:@moderators, I think we should move this important NG dimensioning discussion to its own thread, else we won´t find it again in the future.
Well, loading gauge for NG is "generally" smaller than for SG or BG. But there might be exceptions.jor[D]1 wrote: The size of the trains depends more on the track layout then gauge. [...]
wikipedia wrote: Narrow gauge railways generally have smaller a loading gauge than standard gauge ones [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_gauge#Narrow_gauge
As I said:jor[D]1 wrote: I think it's just not possible to define a rule of thumb for vehicle width in TTD, other then "just make it look good."
This might not be "realistic" (RL) for all cases (e.g. British vs UIC loading gauge), but it should work in the context of the game.mb wrote: The general idea is that NG stock should look "smaller" than SG stock, although we can´t achieve true proportionality. It´s just the idea which should get transported.
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