RealRailway (RRW) - Development and Support

[Swordmaster]

Good news. Noah has been helping me out, things have started to run smoothly.





Cheers
Willy

[rooker1]

  LMAO ......Congrats on 200 posts and now I'm getting really hungry!! The Pizza Line.

Robin

[noahclem]

That's awesome   My pizza's in HD 

Oh yeah, and congrats on 200 posts and some amazing improvements to the rail curves of late   I can't overstate how awesome the latter is!

[MandelSoft]

Well, there's only one reaction to this:



That just made my day 

[vortext]

   

The shadows are outstanding Willy!   

Jokes aside the new curves are seriously awesome! And draggable I presume?

The catenaries are shaping up quite nice as well. I like how the wires stand out on the RRW textures!

[metarvo]

Did someone mention pizza?  Oh, my mouth's watering.    It's not even fair to tempt me like this. 

[Indiana Joe]

Oh dear, I don't think I can compete with those textures 

I have been away, and I see I've missed some cool stuff! (Besides the pizza!)  I love the wider curves Willy.  That's something I've always wanted to see done to the RHW MIS ramps--there's too much wasted tile space.

But getting back to railroads, I need to finalize my own master textures and get going for real on the grey version.



I've taken a liking to semi-shiny rails, but I'll probably end up ditching them when I run into curve problems like Willy.  We'll see.


-Matt

[chosenreject]

will the different rrw textures be optional in the next nam? i prefer pepperoni on my pizza

[GDO29Anagram]

I just wanna throw this out as a disclaimer (and a progress report):



We don't exactly serve pizza. (We typically only ever serve one topping.)

[Indiana Joe]

You positively must leave that in the final version.   

(Hawaiian pizza is one of my favorites...ham and pineapple...mmm...)

[vester]

We don't exactly serve pizza. (We typically only ever serve one topping.)

Damn it, was just looking forward to some pizza  

[Wiimeiser]

That should be in there. That's probably something Maxis would do...

[art128]

That should be in there. That's probably something Maxis would do...

Exactly, it's just like the " Sadly, we've got no Off " from maxis...

[Geometry123]

Ooohh! So no NAM exclusive special 256 sq. m pepperoni pizza?

[Indiana Joe]

Willy, I have a question that I'm sure you, working in the industry, have a good answer for.  Do rail viaducts/overpasses usually have ballast on them?  Maybe it will just take some getting used to, but the new viaducts in-game look a bit awkward.  I would think that, being off the ground, there is no need to lay ballast, since I understand its purpose is to keep the ties/sleepers from sinking into the ground or being overgrown.  Then again, I can imagine a ballast layer would be the easiest way to keep the rails flush.  But it looks weird to me in SC4.  What's the real-life verdict?

[agunter999]

In England rail viaducts have ballast, mind you they are still overgrown
http://medias.photodeck.com/d20c895c-b84b-11e0-9849-1ba82d23d8d8/Ess8-7203_xlarge.jpg
http://www.rail.co.uk/images/603/original/jacobite-glenfinnan-viaduct.jpg

[Swordmaster]

Stone and brick viaducts would usually have ballast as you see in agunter's pics. Wooden, steel, or concrete viaducts can go either way, depending on the construction methods (waybeams vs plates/tray basically). So the viaducts currently in the game wouldn't work well without ballast, but something like the HSRP viaduct and some of the rail bridges may.


Cheers
Willy

[agunter999]

That is the best way to do it, the nam viaducts should have ballast

[Indiana Joe]

Excellent, thanks for the info you two. 

[yann]

hi all, I have an answer with respect to the colors of the ballast, the gray ballast is new and brown ballast is old, the brown color is due to oil, diesel etc. But I have a question, where can I download the RAM?