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ES44AC show time! I'll keep this first post updated with upcoming new enhancements for re-painted ES44AC (based on TS2012 Default).

*** Features ***

1) Modified: Headlights and Rear lights, Tail (Dim) lights.
2) Added: Cab lights, Number Display lights, Step lights and others.
3) Modified: Cab and Head Out view, complete crew with 3 members.
4) Added trackside animated figures.
5) One free-roam scenario on "Barstow to San Bernardino" Route:
"Show Case ES44AC Liverie at night" for you test and see the power of pack.

Use F6 to see the names of engines.
I suggest you to ride the eastbound 'To Pink Tower' engine, and close to the Tower ride the westbound 'To Helendale' consist (a heavy consist with a helper engine) back to 'Helendale Siding 2'.

*** Packs description ***

Added on April 18th 2012
Engine & Liverie: ES44AC NS Heritage liveries: Nickel Plate Road, DL&W (Lackawanna Railroad), N&W, and Southern
Re-Paint packs by: Joe (XDriver) Nageotte
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Nickel Plate Road'
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'DL&W' (Lackawanna Railroad)
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Southern'
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'N&W'
Enhancement pack name: ES44AC NS Heritage Enhancement Pack v1.0
RWA Library Enhancement Pack: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... nt_Pack_v1

Added on April 21th 2012
Engine & Liverie: ES44AC NS Heritage liveries: Central of Georgia, Conrail, Pennsylvania RR, and Pennsylvania RR - Brunswick Green
Re-Paint packs by: Joe (XDriver) Nageotte
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Central of Georgia'
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Conrail'
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Pennsylvania RR'
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Pennsylvania RR - Brunswick Green'
Enhancement pack name: ES44AC NS Heritage II Enhancement Pack v1.0
RWA Library Enhancement Pack: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... nt_Pack_v1

Added on April 21th 2012
Engine & Liverie: CSX YN3 Clean & Weathered (ES44AC 700-859 & ES44DC 5200-5501), Clean "Spirit of Cincinnati" (ES44DC 5500)
Re-Paint pack by: Brandon (MontanaRails) Templeton
Re-Paint pack name: CSX YN3 ES44AC V-1.25 Re-Paint
Enhancement pack name: ES44 CSX YN3 Enhancement Pack v2.0
RWA Library Enhancement Pack: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... nt_Pack_v2

Wow, you are a busy man Machinist. Thanks for all your upgrade packs .

I'll keep em busy. LOL! I just told him I have two more commin.
I need to get outta the paint booth and put his enhancements in and play!

How do you get it do dark? At best I can get it fairly dark by setting time to 1am, overcast in winter. Is my contrast turned up too high?

NDORFN wrote:How do you get it do dark? At best I can get it fairly dark by setting time to 1am, overcast in winter. Is my contrast turned up too high?

There are a lot questions related to your question...

Type of monitor screen. Usually a laptop has a brighter (more shining) luminosity, it's not designed to play games but to faster and mobile activities. It varies also if is LCD, plasma etc. As much opaque the screen as better to play games in general. I never tweak lighting enhancements on my laptop for this reason.

Real ambient light. Are you playing during the day or at night? At day is the windows of your room opened, closed? What type of lamp are you using, fluorescent? 40W, 120W, 200W? Is it over you, behind you?

So far I'm talking only about real life lighting, but there is also the game lighting: TOD Time of Day and Weather blueprints etc. etc. etc. And that' is a more complex talking...

Bottom line, so far. When I'm playing, especially if I'm tweaking lighting, if is at day I close the room's window to let me use the artificial lamps (fluorescent 120W) like if I was at night, therefore I have quite the same pattern at every time of day. Despite of that I usually set the brightness of game (in game | options | advanced) to 30/31 at day, and to 29 (default) at night. You have to test according to your real ambient lighting and type (opaqueness) of your monitor screen, and also check if both monitor (device) and in-game brightness are set too much high (as you said).

In all routes (now I'm talking about virtual lighting) still exist a reminiscence of RW2 times, ie, the ambient light (TOD) is too much brighter, that was needed in RW2 (when we didn't have headlight) but is weird on TS2012 routes. So, using default TOD and Weather blueprints the darker ambient light you usually get is setting to: Winter, between 00:30 and 04:00 (it varies from route to route), and Storm Rain weather (blueprint "stormrainheavy" I guess, I'm not at game pc now to check). Overcast is brighter than Storm, and Storm is brighter than Storm Rain.

In the freeroam scenarios of pack I'm using Winter (or Summer), 23:30 or 00:30 Start TIme, and Storm Rain.

Hope this helps.
Doc.

The packs have arrived at RWA Library Station.
Updated links on the first post of this thread.

Enjoy them...
Doc.

Added on April 20th 2012
Engine & Liverie: ES44AC NS Heritage liveries: Central of Georgia, Conrail, Pennsylvania RR, and Pennsylvania RR - Brunswick Green
Re-Paint packs by: Joe (XDriver) Nageotte
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Central of Georgia'
RWA Library: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... n_ES44_CoG
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Conrail'
RWA Library: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... 44_Conrail
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Pennsylvania RR'
RWA Library: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... n_ES44_PRR
Re-Paint pack name: Norfolk Southern (NS) Heritage Edition ES44 'Pennsylvania RR - Brunswick Green'
RWA Library: http://railworksamerica.com/FileLibrary ... 4_PRRGreen
Enhancement pack name: ES44AC NS Heritage II Enhancement Pack v1.0
On Library, see link on first post.

Good stuff and great work .

If it wasn't for the unrealistic looking track bed, It'd be hard to tell this wasn't real.



You can take a rest from my work now. I have nothing coming up for awhile.
I said in my other post about some skin updates. That should have no effect on your enhancements.
Good stuff you're doing there.

XDriver wrote:You can take a rest from my work now. I have nothing coming up for awhile.

Pheeew!

Well... MontanaRails' ES44AC ES44DC CSX YN3 re-paint pack was already submitted to Library with 3 new liveries. Enhancement pack is ready, I'm just waiting the final name of update pack on Library (I need it right to my Readme) and then upload the enhancement pack. In meantime some few screenies...

Awesome Machinist !

Out now on RWA Library both enhacement packs:

ES44 CSX YN3 Enhancement Pack v2.0



ES44AC NS Heritage II Enhancement Pack v1.0



Link updated on first post.

Wait, have you made enhancements for the defualt sd40s and es44acs? Or have you only done it for repaints (not sure why you would only do it for repaints.)

pschlik wrote:Wait, have you made enhancements for the defualt sd40s and es44acs? Or have you only done it for repaints (not sure why you would only do it for repaints.)

I've made the enhancements for all RSC default SD40s and ES44ACs since LEP version 1.0 and now added them (as freeware) for these freeware repaints. LEP update will have enhancements for all (I guess) ES44DC, SD70s and Dash 9s DLC packs also.