Railworks America

I worked in the Engineering field and used Pro Engineer for solid modeling. Models made in ProE and other engineering programs can be imported into "artsy" modelers but the models have a whole bunch of polys.



That is a cattle loader I developed in ProE to make a "live" model for my old On30 Pacific Coast Air Line Railway. It has 2886 polys after importing an STL model into 3d Canvas8. I developed the model in ProE Wildfire Student Edition-Personal Use.

After consolidating the faces in 3d Canvas the models were down to 810 polys:

The Trainz import forgive the texturing:



The MSTS import:



Still working on the RailWorks install. Took about two minutes for the other sims.

Hope that helps someone
Harold

Very nice. I could definitely use such an asset. Given my limited understanding of 3D modelling tools... sounds like a pretty advanced export/import technique you've got going there.

Hi, what are you having issues with for the RailWorks version?

Trainguy76 wrote:Hi, what are you having issues with for the RailWorks version?

The usual unfriendly Railworks system, I have had very poor results getting anything into Railworks. The others take two minutes. If I was a comspiracy theorist I would say it is difficult to sell their DLC.

Harold

That doesn't really help for finding what you are doing wrong.

Got it to work, left the category box as "uncategorized". Put a different texture thinking that was the problem. D-oh! does only take two minutes.



Need to work out the size issues on importing the STL into 3d Canvas.

So easy a caveman can do it.
Harold

Edit: Back when I was buildin' model trains I bought the Evan Designs Model Builder for making paper buildings. This was the texture from their sample building.



For the paint shop challenged it has possibilities.

Hi,

Having said the following...

hminky wrote:The usual unfriendly Railworks system, I have had very poor results getting anything into Railworks. The others take two minutes. If I was a comspiracy theorist I would say it is difficult to sell their DLC.
Harold

And the reality being....

hminky wrote:Got it to work, left the category box as "uncategorized". Put a different texture thinking that was the problem. D-oh! does only take two minutes.
Need to work out the size issues on importing the STL into 3d Canvas.
So easy a caveman can do it.
Harold.........

Dont you think it would be a polite thing to at least say that human error and not RW was the true cause.

Ross
NZ

No, I stand by my first statement. I have yet to get a Railway Vehicle to work in RailSimulator or RailWorks. The labyrinth that is the BluePrint editor is a mess.

Having a category, "uncategorised", that results in a model not to show up in the game is really not polite.

Harold

Harold,

Give me a few days and I may have something to help you.