Railworks America

Hello everyone,

Hope everything is fine. I use blender 2.82 for the 3D design, but I have a small problem, in object mode my object doesn't have any texture and in texture paint mode, no problems, so it's make problem to copy/paste on blender 2.79 to use Briage as export plug-in. So I don't know what to do, or maybe if they are some alternatives such as 3dcrafter or others more, but I stay on Blender for design

Thanks a lot for your help

Try export model as .fbx from 2.82 and then import the same in 2.79b

What I do is make the object I'm 2.8 and copy and paste to 2.79 and unwrap there. Plus, if you bake textures using Ambient Occlusion or the other ways, it's much easy to do it there. From what I've heard in 2.8, baking textures now use nodes which is something I don't have much knowledge of.

I keep both 2.79 and 2.82 installs on my computer. 2.79 is used only for TS20xx models, 2.82 is used for everything else. It may just be easier to use 2.79 from the start of the model if you have plans to export to Train Simulator.

Hello, I have contacted the author of Blender RailWorks exporter.
The version for 2.8x is work in progress.

Hello Guys,

Thanks a lot for your reply, and your help, I will try it when I have time, I found online some others process too, and I will test it, if DTG can do a plugin for Blender could be the best, because their plugin in 3DSmax is good too. 3Dcrafter no bad too, but a little complex :( and not stable too :(

I just saw the last Briage was more updated for 2.79 so hope next version could be for blender 2.8 ;)

Wait and see

honeybaobao wrote:...if DTG can do a plugin for Blender could be the best...

A few years ago, I would say there isn't a chance of DTG providing a Blender plugin. But from what I've been reading online, Blender is starting to make its way into production studios with the expanded functionality, updated user interface, and a price point (free) that runs circles around 3DMax. So who knows... if DTG starts to adopt Blender as a modeling tool, maybe that plugin will happen.

New exporter for Blender 2.82 will be released this friday at jujumatic.free.fr

DigitalRails wrote:New exporter for Blender 2.82 will be released this friday at jujumatic.free.fr

BRIAGE 2.82 has been released. However, this version will not work with the newly released Blender 2.83. Hopefully it will be updated soon.

mikeadams2k wrote:

DigitalRails wrote:New exporter for Blender 2.82 will be released this friday at jujumatic.free.fr

BRIAGE 2.82 has been released. However, this version will not work with the newly released Blender 2.83. Hopefully it will be updated soon.

Awesome! This will make life much easier!

It works fine on 2.83 also

DigitalRails wrote:It works fine on 2.83 also

Interesting. I've tried several projects that export fine from 2.82. But all fail on export from 2.83. I'm not changing anything in the projects.

Julian has posted the 2.83 fix on his website. http://jujumatic.free.fr/index.php

Hi, happy that finally the new Briage compatibility with Blender 2.82 and 2.83 work well, appreciate your feedback. I will try it during my holidays this week. And will keep you in touch

For what it's worth, BRIAGE 2.83 also works with the latest exprimental version of Blender, 2.90a. Also, the .blend files are interchangeable between 2.90a and 2.83. I made a simple cube test in 2.90a and exported it to TS. I was able to open the .blend file in 2.83 and export it to TS without any changes. As the Blender site says, it's probably not a good idea to use 2.90a for projects that you want to keep, but it's fun to experiment with. Plus, it will become a stable release at some point.