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If you've done some .eng light editing before, then hopefully the short answer will work. I'm no expert so hopefully if there's a better way someone else chimes in, but the way I'd do it would be to...

Hi Darrell.... I can't tell from reading your post how much experience you have had with editing lighting in .s files. I'm no expert but I would be happy to try to help but it would help me to know...

Unless ORTS calls track shapes differently to rolling stock (or you were using different names), you can save yourself a fair bit of work next time by not editing the .s files geepster. If it's a...

Spot on, totally agree. I've spent hours messing with loco lighting (and smoke) trying to get some more realistic effects, but the current limitations make it impossible. There's a million things...

Yes Geoff, Martin's program is the one I use.

And yes, the quality and quantity of modern digital photography made my era of choice for reskins a no-brainer but you're absolutely right about the...

You're welcome Geoff... and I couldn't recommend dds more to anyone that is still making textures. The only complaint I have about it is that my 1024 ace textures now look pretty scrappy when...

Geoff, I don't do a lot with the hobby these days but as this topic has long been of interest to me a mate was kind enough to give me a heads up that it was under discussion again so I thought I'd...

I'd had my say Geoff, but will put my oar in one last time. In my view, the only difference between payware and freeware is the cost and availability of it. Beyond that, they're all just pixel...

I believe it would be a mistake if they were. Pixel trains ain't worth dying of asphyxiation over.



Without starting a dog and bone show of my own, I get somewhat bemused by the line between...

Give it a rest Geoff. You can do your dog and bone routine until hell freezes over and it's not going to change a thing. Whether you like Scott's "business model" or not, the fact remains it's his...

Love the faded/weathered look Brody. Great work!

Yep... if you can get it to work with another loco, that's really interesting. Hopefully you can get a fix for it!

No it doesn't make sense from the sounds of things. Short of seeing the .eng file entries, shapes etc on the off-chance there's an error there somewhere you've overlooked it's hard to make another...

How many FA's are you using Erick? The first one can still be tweaked in SFM as always, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc FA's can be tweaked directly via the offsets in the eng/wag file. If you're already...

Geoff, "grey out" is just a term I made up, (I think), but sorry if I stole it from someone else :). I don't have any screenshots, but I'm sure you've seen a version of it yourself before when you...

I don't think I've used the dxt5 compression at all Erick. Most of what I've done so far has only needed the "no alpha" option and when I have needed alpha channels, I think it's been either 1 or 3...

The only real change in the process of dds vs ace is that you are using DXTBmp to handle them to/from your editor of choice (paintshop, photoshop etc) rather than TgaTool Michelle.

If you only...

Just my two cents on this, I don't know why more ORTS users aren't embracing .dds for their reskins/texture work. I've been using DXTBmp for my reskins for over a year now (thanks Bernard :)) and if...

Thanks Shawn! I'll shoot Larry a PM about the FA (and thanks Larry!) and then get them uploaded ASAP.

I think "need" is probably the right word Neil. I deleted all my AI locos ages ago. All my AI trains have player engines on them now, but given your attention to detail with lighting, AI might...

Thanks Michelle. Loss of fine detail is one of the frustrations of doing texturing but I've never had such an important area look so bad before. I tried bold with the different filter (if that's the...

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Hi folks. I decided to have a try at making a couple of these units...

Thanks for the link Gerry, and my only experience with what Dave reported (although a much shorter gap than his screens) was solved by shortening the length in the wagon file. I wasn't sure how...

That looks great Rory... but no more hunting or drinking until you've got it finished! :)

Hi Paul. I don't have much "under the hood" knowledge in terms of how ORTS deals with wag/eng files so I'd only be guessing at the answer to your question, but I'm sure once Gerry comes in we'll...