New Graphics - Blender ".blend" thread (Works In Progress)

[Crazy Vaclav]

Red*Star - thats cool, could that just get stuck on the wiki site for quickly adding to?. Theres some models floating round in other tt-forum pages, thats ive seen/stuck stuff in.

I noticed today while grabbing random new graphics and making a mock up new world, that theres tonnes of stuff that isnt listed on the wiki grf site at the moment, or that i cant find. the new track peices, mono rail and mag lev, bridges, railway crossings etc. little less obvious things but more commonly used. Fences hedges etc.

maybe there should be a texture area for people to stick stuff in. (seeing as many textures need to be the same, ground colours etc)...

please correct me if im just not looking hard enough and this stuff is already around

Take a look at this page. I think it covers most things, though unfortunately a lot of the categories are empty. There is also a "standardised materials" category, but it's also empty.

[Prof. Frink]

I take it the Maglev will be the "Lev4 'Chimaera' (Electric)" replacement?

Why not just call it a TransRapid?

[Red*Star]

Here are some more... without guarantee of completeness
If someone wants to search further: I've digged now through the first /two/ pages of the OpenTTD Graphics thread overview and collected all 3D stuff I found, so you can continue at page 3, after maleys locked thread "(wip) Mars Set".

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http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=14549&sid=0c1f3ea8cd6e288a565d06d570a59fa3:
this thread, already listed one page before this one

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=23276&sid=0c1f3ea8cd6e288a565d06d570a59fa3:
futuristic airplane (emu)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=11321&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=160,
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=11321&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=220:
2 office towers (very WIP, I know ;) ) (Red*Star)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=11321&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60:
groundsprites, environment test, houses, and much more (dunno who made this stuff - probably mauddib and Alltaken)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=23053&sid=0c1f3ea8cd6e288a565d06d570a59fa3:
truck, variations (Yoeri)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=22937&sid=0c1f3ea8cd6e288a565d06d570a59fa3:
flat(s), red walls (Aracirion)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=22031&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40,
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=22031:
bank (prob. for temperate climate) (Magic_Pixel)
office tower (Magic_Pixel)
another office tower, yet without textures (Magic_Pixel)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=22385:
9 BR 8P 1954 steam train engine (Ben_Robbins_)
Gresley A4 (or "Ginzu A4") steam train engine (Ben_Robbins_)

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=19579:
Brickland set thread, various models LEGO-like (several artists)

PS: I've noticed that some graphics attached to some posts don't exist. Example:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... &highlight
Any idea why that's the case? In this thread there are also some errors like that...

[Crazy Vaclav]

It's been a while since I looked through all of the 8 pages, but I instantly remembered this one.

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=15005

It's the thread with Sellu's amazing models.

[Born Acorn]

I take it the Maglev will be the "Lev4 'Chimaera' (Electric)" replacement?

Why not just call it a TransRapid?

Original Veh names [ENG] needs an update

yes but if we are going to have the monorail still be magnetic and as posted it is a monorail maglev like the current monorails where as the chimera is a japanesse style u trac that runs on the ground.

Yes, but you don't get it, its a Transrapid, which is a maglev tracked vehicle, which can run along the ground or can be elevated. Monorail in TTD is a completely fictuitous system, as monorails are limited to rather low speeds and often find themselves warpped around a theme park.

[Villem]

Afaik, Russia has a monorail in public transport use, i remember seeing a picture of it.
[edit]Re-looking at the picture, it looks like the Transrapid system, maybe George would know more about it. http://vaunut.org/kuvasivu/18243 (note, you need a authorization from the author of the picture if you intend to use it on your own site or attach on this forum).

[Brianetta]

monorails are limited to rather low speeds and often find themselves warpped around a theme park.

Largely limited to about 80km/h, true. The theme park reputation keeps getting in the way of monorails being taken seriously, and that is unjust. Even in a theme park, they are proving themselves seriously. The monorail at Walt Disney World in Florida has been running for 35 years. It carries more than 150,000 passenger journeys ]per day, and operates at 99.9% reliability.

It serves six stations on two lines, has fully operating switches and a very good safety record.

Never minding the low speeds, the important advantage of monorail is low cost. The tracks are usually prefabricated (and can even be relocated). The tracks need inspecting once or twice a year, rather than daily (or nightly) as with regular rail. The running costs for a monorail are so low, in fact, that there are commercial monorails in the world that actually turn a profit every year. Most of these are in Japan, where the technology is taken seriously, and one is the Seattle monorail.

I believe that monorails in OpenTTD need to be altered to reflect what real life monorails are, rather than simply being a step toward maglevs. Monorails should be cheap to build, cheap to run, perhaps limited in what they can transport (I don't think there's a coal-carrying monorail anywhere) and slow. Ideally, they should be able to be built in an elevated fashion above existing roads in cities, which would reflect how they are used in real life.

Inter-city monorails are unrealistic, and with the passenger profit curve in OpenTTD this would be adequately taken care of if they were slow. Short-hop, inner city services, which are nevertheless trains, are what monorail should be in the game.

[Brianetta]

Afaik, Russia has a monorail in public transport use, i remember seeing a picture of it.

http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/Moscow01.html is a really good source of info on that system. It's beautiful.

[Ben_Robbins_]

Born Acorn : For the Propellers i just masked the front of the plain, but its sloppy. i rendered it onto a printscreen of Crazy Vaclav's plain.
Heres the 4 renders anyway.

[Ben_Robbins_]

i think the Docklands Light Railway, london, is a monorail system. Its far from a theme park ride. It links londons cbd areas.
In the game i never really use monorail, but only becuase almost as soon as they come around, mag levs are there, so i tend to skip the monorail craze and wait for the real speed lines. Maybe monorails should come in a lot earlier, but with some slower trains, so they are more of an investment.

[Brianetta]

i think the Docklands Light Railway, london, is a monorail system.

It isn't - it's a standard gauge light railway. The only remarkable feature is the driverless operation, which is rare in the UK.

[Korenn]

The only public transport monorail service that I can think of is in Tokyo. they've got two small systems, one is a monorail like in ttd, and one has the train suspended under the track. I'm not even certain they're still in service today.

[Ben_Robbins_]

http://www.mykreeve.net/london/docklands/

No drivers meaen theres windows at the front wich is so much better. One thing i noticed is that the line had tonnes of small stations rather than large ones, sometimes with less than 100yards between them. Differnt ball game.

[Born Acorn]

Born Acorn : For the Propellers i just masked the front of the plain, but its sloppy. i rendered it onto a printscreen of Crazy Vaclav's plain.
Heres the 4 renders anyway.

I meant the trains. So they'd fit on the wiki.

[Ben_Robbins_]

http://icthewharf.icnetwork.co.uk/thisw ... _page.html

Dunno if this is still going on, or in planning.

[Born Acorn]

I'd think its about as certain as http://www.500kmh.com/

or the planned Liverpool tram system.

or all the London Dockland railway upgrades and extensions.

[Ben_Robbins_]

Yeah, i checked the videos on that site before modeeling the maglev. Can't remeber exaclt where, but there is basic planned routes and maps for where they would put the line, but then they indefinatly suspended plans for a new high speed rail line from london to glasgow a little while ago, so the same will probley happen here. somehwere i read that they intended to get the trains running up to 611mph...hmm.

Heres the 3 trains, wich i think are in the right size. These are max files still, but most of it is stil checked, so someone can put them in blender if nessesery.

[Ben_Robbins_]

twas thinking...the maglev, although i think in shape and stuff is closest to the lev4....it exsists now. So shouldn't it either be the first maglev, or just have many more newer maglevs after it? Theres a maglev (japaneese maybe), that looks quite like the lev 3 i recons.

http://www.fys.uio.no/super/images/maglev.jpg

[Born Acorn]

We should only show the actual engine. The passenger carriages can be shown next to the passenger carriage as an override/livery.

[Brianetta]

The only public transport monorail service that I can think of is in Tokyo.

That's a limitation of your knowledge, not of how widespread monorail is. http://www.monorails.org/ lists 47 operating monorail systems which transport passengers between two or more stations.