Up, Up And Away

[jpetersjr]

Something I'm building for the sim, this will be a set of several hot air balloons.

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 A.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 B.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 C.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 D.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[jpetersjr]

The first version of the hot air balloon is now finished and in the sim, now for a couple more versions.

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 In Game.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 In Game B.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 In Game C.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 In Game D.jpg

Classic Hot Air Balloon V1 In Game E.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J

[GreatNortherner]

Fantastic! What a great idea, and a very good model too.

Cheers,
Michael

[jpetersjr]

A couple more versions of the model for tonight, I'll get these done real soon and I'll have them out to the file library by next week. I'll be looking forward to seeing these on freeware routes and I'd even like to see them also hosted in the Any Route Any Era thread.

Hot Air Balloons A.jpg

...Cheers...


Big J


Next, I'll try my hand at a couple of vintage airplane's.

[mysterytrain]

Terrific idea!!

[ConrailHeritage]

Are these going to have a flight path? Because I had a jet plane and a hovercraft that followed a set path, and would think it cool to pretend to be taking pictures from a moving balloon.

[jpetersjr]

Would be nice, but unfortunately no, as of right now I don't know how to make a traffic ribbon to make them move. But the problem is is a hot air balloon moves quite slow, from a speeding train it would appear as if it isn't moving.

Now, I'd love to learn how to make a traffic ribbon for something, if someone knows how to make such a thing can they please tell me how I can do it?


...Cheers...


Big J

[BlueLight]

Looks like the balloon just went up.

[RAILSOHIO]

Send it to me and I'll try to animate it and make a separate traffic ribbon and maybe even add the person to stay with it and an emitter and lights so you can see the flames

Its' a given there are some third party traffic ribbons out there. But I have never seen instruction,or a tutorial on how to make one. If you master the process,a tutorial would be great! Also,I have seen many hot air balloons in flight from a car ,and you can see the movement. So it would be cool to lay out a path for the balloon.

[jpetersjr]

Yes, I would like to learn how to make a traffic ribbon, I'd like to make a couple of traffic ribbons for my 60's cars for use on my route.