longer trains?

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:57 pm

Hi guys, Im a noob here to moding RR's. Is there a mod out or a way to have trains longer than 8 cars?

Post by **Warll** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:28 pm

Well there is no definite way we have uncovered yet. It was hypothesized that if you could create a car model that trains then could pull eight custom cars which just happen to be visual two cars each.

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:31 pm

ah. the single car approach to be made to look like two cars, would they still articulate at the coupler sense they would be one car?

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:41 pm

how are you guys getting 2 engines on a train?

Post by **Warll** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:44 pm

By using a feature that was dropped form the finale game, tenders. Soon after the game was released a person named "Mange" released mod which implemented these tenders. We then replaced the tender model with a copy of a engine, and doubled the pulling power stat.

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:49 pm

cool. Are those mods part of the SMRI installer?

Post by **Warll** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:04 pm

Yes, it is included in SMRI.

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:08 pm

so has anyone tried the 2 car illusion in one car thing you mentioned earlier?

Star Ranger4 · Post by **Star Ranger4** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:31 pm

Not as far as I know... nor would it really do any good; these double cars would still only hold 1 unit of goods.

You'd need to know not only modeling, but truely understand .nif and .kf editing in order to correctly add the 'bones' and animations needed to make them work correctly.

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:33 pm

yeah, sounds like a challenging thing to do. I have no idea how to do that stuff. I'm a 3D animator by trade, so i understand the 3D side of it, but have no idea on the coding for the game side of things.

Would be cool though, even if the cars only held one unit of goods, would just look more like a train to me. Especially with the double engines.

Post by **Warll** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:02 pm

Oh well your in luck or more like we are. Most people here can code but not model.

mstewart1522 · Post by **mstewart1522** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:04 pm

coolio! I use lightwave to model in, im sure theres a way to get the model into what ever format RR's uses. .obj? .3ds?

Let me know if can help

Star Ranger4 · Post by **Star Ranger4** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:47 pm

NIFtools allows importing of both filetypes.

snoopy55 · Post by **snoopy55** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:25 pm

mstewart1522 - look into Construction Set as we need someone who can do 3D there, now and in the future....