asamtrak911
08-23-2002, 05:09 AM
Hi all,
I'm very new to the world of MSTS (just bought it last week) but not to railfanning or computer graphics. A few years ago I remember finding Matt Harter's Virtual Streetcar site, and I greatly admired the models. Last night while trying to think of how to start familiarizing myself with Gmax so I can make some of my own models, I hit upon the idea of finding those models again and loading them into Gmax so I could see what a finished model was supposed to be like. Imagine my surprise to find Matt's new site and see that he's already started to convert his stuff to MSTS form! I downloaded the PCC immediately.
This afternoon I did a quick re-skin of the generic PCC into Boston's Metropolitan Transit Authority scheme with the robin-egg logos. The unique left-side door is simply painted on, not a recessed part of the shape like the right-side doors, but the effect is good. The paint job isn't perfect, because I was working from memory not a photo, and obviously I need a better video card or something because the texture is blurry even close up in the game. I created a couple different consists that allow me to run a single car, two, or three, but I'll need to tweak some bounding-box and/or length settings in the .eng file because there's space between the couplers. I want to scale back the power settings a bit too, because I've hardly even notched my controller past 20% and still exceed the speed limit on the Tokyo route sometimes. I tried to do that and to add a bright state to the headlights (as it was they were fully bright on the dim setting and off in the full setting), but now MSTS refuses to read the .eng file properly. Says that the error is in the very last line, which is simply the closing ). Oh well, I'll fiddle with that later.
Matt, your non-MSTS models are incredible. As I said, I'm trying to get to understand how Gmax works by loading up your models, but what I'd really like to do is to add the proper wheel and pantograph animations and export those to MSTS format. I assume you're planning to do that, and I'd love to go cruising around in a Type 7. I'm tempted to go out and start working on recording the distinctive whine of the LRVs. At any rate I want to learn Gmax ASAP so that I can do some other MBTA models of my own. Next repaint will be this same car in the green MBTA scheme.
Alex Stroshane
Amtrak Prototype & Model
Photos, Train Gifs, and more!
http://www.trainweb.org/asamtrak911
I'm very new to the world of MSTS (just bought it last week) but not to railfanning or computer graphics. A few years ago I remember finding Matt Harter's Virtual Streetcar site, and I greatly admired the models. Last night while trying to think of how to start familiarizing myself with Gmax so I can make some of my own models, I hit upon the idea of finding those models again and loading them into Gmax so I could see what a finished model was supposed to be like. Imagine my surprise to find Matt's new site and see that he's already started to convert his stuff to MSTS form! I downloaded the PCC immediately.
This afternoon I did a quick re-skin of the generic PCC into Boston's Metropolitan Transit Authority scheme with the robin-egg logos. The unique left-side door is simply painted on, not a recessed part of the shape like the right-side doors, but the effect is good. The paint job isn't perfect, because I was working from memory not a photo, and obviously I need a better video card or something because the texture is blurry even close up in the game. I created a couple different consists that allow me to run a single car, two, or three, but I'll need to tweak some bounding-box and/or length settings in the .eng file because there's space between the couplers. I want to scale back the power settings a bit too, because I've hardly even notched my controller past 20% and still exceed the speed limit on the Tokyo route sometimes. I tried to do that and to add a bright state to the headlights (as it was they were fully bright on the dim setting and off in the full setting), but now MSTS refuses to read the .eng file properly. Says that the error is in the very last line, which is simply the closing ). Oh well, I'll fiddle with that later.
Matt, your non-MSTS models are incredible. As I said, I'm trying to get to understand how Gmax works by loading up your models, but what I'd really like to do is to add the proper wheel and pantograph animations and export those to MSTS format. I assume you're planning to do that, and I'd love to go cruising around in a Type 7. I'm tempted to go out and start working on recording the distinctive whine of the LRVs. At any rate I want to learn Gmax ASAP so that I can do some other MBTA models of my own. Next repaint will be this same car in the green MBTA scheme.
Alex Stroshane
Amtrak Prototype & Model
Photos, Train Gifs, and more!
http://www.trainweb.org/asamtrak911