"French Trains Set - freight rolling stock needs drawing

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 10 Jan 2007 09:24

Snail wrote:We could launch a contest... who can make that train look good?

What about a prize? What will be the prize?

Raichase · Post by **Raichase** » 11 Jan 2007 10:50

wallyweb wrote:
Snail wrote:We could launch a contest... who can make that train look good?
What about a prize? What will be the prize?

Seeing a nice train in the set, rather than the god-ugly train it is IRL?

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 11 Jan 2007 11:38

Raichase wrote:
wallyweb wrote:
Snail wrote:We could launch a contest... who can make that train look good?
What about a prize? What will be the prize?
Seeing a nice train in the set, rather than the god-ugly train it is IRL?

I was thinking more along the lines of a really decent Beaujolais of good bouquet and vintage, but a nice train works too.

The Irish · Post by **The Irish** » 11 Jan 2007 18:00

wallyweb wrote:
Raichase wrote:
wallyweb wrote: What about a prize? What will be the prize?
Seeing a nice train in the set, rather than the god-ugly train it is IRL?
I was thinking more along the lines of a really decent Beaujolais of good bouquet and vintage, but a nice train works too.

I would have no problem sponsoring such a bottle to whomever will be the winner...

DanMacK · Post by **DanMacK** » 12 Jan 2007 17:40

Anyone have some really good pictures of this thing?

The Irish · Post by **The Irish** » 12 Jan 2007 19:19

http://www.web-trains.com/agv/agv.htm

This link has some pictures, but be carefull, the consist also has an old TGV head on one side...

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 13 Jan 2007 02:11

Yup!

And another picture is here, and here you can see a .PDF document that explains some technical facts about this train. It's written in French, but the images speak for themselves. We would ideally need all versions (7, 8, 10, and 11 cars) but of course even one of those would be a starting point.

Note, the livery you can see on the pictures in the links is the Alstom livery (i.e. the prototype). It will most certainly not be the final livery SNCF will paint its trains in (I think they yet have to design one). When the final livery gets known, we will eventually need it for our set, but the Alstom livery will be a good start.

MagicBuzz · Post by **MagicBuzz** » 03 Feb 2007 11:24

Hello,

The last weeks, I started to learn C and tried to design some patches for OTTD.
Thus, I see you need a coder to work on your trainset.

So I wonder if you need a coder to work only one the GRF files, or also on TTDP and OTTD. I could try to work for the OTTD implementation.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 03 Feb 2007 17:50

Welcome MagicBuzz!

Actually, we weren't thinking about implementing our set to OTTD, but now that you mention it, it would be a very interesting added feature to it. Especially because OTTD runs natively on Macs, so I'd be able to play it without running Parallels Desktop

Some coding work is going on, behind the scenes, and we might release a very small taster earlier than we might expect. If you are interested in porting our work to OTTD, why don't you drop me a PM? Tu peux même m'écrire en français.

Cheers!

MagicBuzz · Post by **MagicBuzz** » 05 Feb 2007 16:28

Who is "Death" ?

You asked me to contact him, but I can't see someone with this nick on this thread. So I'm afraid I can't contact him

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 05 Feb 2007 16:36

MagicBuzz wrote:Who is "Death" ?

You asked me to contact him, but I can't see someone with this nick on this thread. So I'm afraid I can't contact him

Using the "Search" button at the top of the forums page, I entered "Death" in the field titled "Authors", selected "Posts" and clicked on search. The search returned a great number of posts by Death. Clicking on his name returned his profile here

MagicBuzz · Post by **MagicBuzz** » 05 Feb 2007 16:48

thank you wallyweb.
didn't know about this way to use the search feature

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 05 Feb 2007 17:11

Death has kindly accepted to do some preliminary work on our set! Expect a taster version some time in the next future (it will have to be beta tested before being released though

).

This will be the first tangible product of ours, until OzTransLtd starts the main coding work. He's currently busy with his other projects, and more engines and wagons still need to be drawn before we can release a more complete version.

We will also need the results of NewRoutes for our set to be fully functional in all the complexity we expect to create.

We'd like to thank both Death and OzTransLtd, as well as Wile who did some initial tests on the first engine, for their interest and their help with our project!

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 12 Feb 2007 23:49

Say, do any of you people working on the French set, know anything about Spanish trains? Since Spain is next to France, I thought maybe someone would. We have basically all the trains drawn for the Spanish set, and Death has coded them, but we are missing a few stats. Please take a look at the Spanish set thread if you might be able to contribute anything. Thanks!

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 14 Feb 2007 23:09

Not really, unluckily... I've tried to do some research, but I couldn't really find any info on the engines you're missing. What I could come up with is a sensible guesstimation of the missing stats for a couple of them, basing on other European trains that were very similar.

There are many trains that come from France on your list, but their stats are already filled up

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 14 Feb 2007 23:32

Well, we'll take the sensible guesstimate (as long as it's noted somehow), so we can release the set. Maybe that will gain publicity and someone will show up with the right stats for the next version.

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 11 Apr 2007 04:22

Long time no news...

Extensive work has been going on behind the scenes. Updates of old stuff, mostly. Yet I take the chance to introduce a new engine...

It's another steamer

In this case, the 151TQ built in 1940 by Corpet-Louvet. It will be the cheapest steamer of the last generation. Slow, not very powerful, but inexpensive, it will be an alternative to early diesel traction on branch lines where keeping costs under control is a must.

What do you think? You can get another pic here...

Criticism is appreciated. More to come soon!

Cheers

SuperTycoon · Post by **SuperTycoon** » 11 Apr 2007 13:27

Snail, you PMed me a while ago about finishing the LaPoste TGV I started recolouring, and mentioned sending me the other sprites... I never got these... Fancy posting them here so I can get to work on it?

Snail · Post by **Snail** » 11 Apr 2007 13:39

SuperTycoon wrote:Snail, you PMed me a while ago about finishing the LaPoste TGV I started recolouring, and mentioned sending me the other sprites... I never got these... Fancy posting them here so I can get to work on it?

Thanks for asking!

I will as soon as they are ready. As I said, we're working behind the scenes to enhance pretty much all of our already drawn stuff, and this includes TGVs. As soon as I'm done adding some detail to Coalroads' already excellent TGVs (having got his permission

) I'll send them to you so that you can finish the LaPoste variant.

Purno's steamers are in the works as well though, so it might take a while...

michael blunck · Post by **michael blunck** » 11 Apr 2007 13:50

[151TQ]

> Slow, not very powerful, [...]

It has a tractive effort of 266kN which is a lot for a European tank engine.

regards
Michael

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