Charlie Mutschler Wrote:
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> Very nice work. One thought - and this is not
> meant as a criticism - is that the ballast in your
> images looks too new for the time period. The
> beautiful crushed rock ballast extending beyond
> the tie ends is something done by the C&TS. The
> D&RGW, like the D&RG, used what was called 'native
> ballast,' on the narrow gauge, which was the local
> dirt, with some cinders from the ash pit to
> supplement it.
>
> Thank you for sharing with us.
>
> CVM
not offended at all Charlie, i want to get what i do on this route as close as i can to the original , i'v been working for weeks on just this short section and its still nowhere near correct, . one of the problems of the trainz software is that it is quite hard to make new assets such as track, you need to have mastered a 3d program and i am a novice at that, it takes months/years to master the 3d stuff . i may be able to modify existing track so it looks better, there are tracks with no ballast , I have been contemplating trying that ( in have used it in Chama yard as i noted the track is very close to the ground there).
Unfortunately with Trainz one is limited to what one can do with track given whats available and the considerable vagaries of the software itself :-) one of the issues is that track often sits above the terrain very slightly and it looks terrible if you adopt a 'worms eye ' view with your camera . the only solution is to use a 'fill" track which is what i have done here . this saves the tedious job of trying to get the track to lay flat.
however this fill track isn't working well anyway as i cannot change its texture of the fill beneath the gravel so i'll try some other options that may look more prototypical . Thanks for the advice !
> -30-
