Railworks America

Well I have been playing railworks for almost a year just download the pdf's from railsimulator.com. I didn't know much about trains but over the past year I have been playing watching videos reading learned a lot and my childhood obsession is making its way virtual. SO I am going to try to make a locomotive for railworks. I have modeled and put vehicles in other games before like rigs of rods, 18 wos's and farming simulators but I am gonna try this I am pretty quick at learning so here is what I got in a half hour of modeling. Also as I go on this thread please correct any mistakes I make in the train it self. Here is my photo bucket of other work to http://s1181.photobucket.com/albums/x432/ihwood/

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Would love to see some of those old trucks in RW as scenery, never a bad time to have scenery from years gone by.

Welcome to RWA, Ihwood ! Drinks are on me!


The 630 is lookin mighty fine! Are you a 3dsMax user, by chance?

Pip pip, and all that rut! ~mouse

He uses Sketchup with a render software if I recall, I remember IHWood from the Rigs of Rods community (However there they hate Sketchup for some reason). Glad to see ya working on RW3 IHWood!!

I would love to find out how he made some of those old trucks in sketchup. I've been building some vehicles from the 30's, but still unable to figure out how to make something like a 55 Ford truck or 57 Chevrolet Bel Air in it.

Csxgp38-2 wrote:He uses Sketchup with a render software if I recall, I remember IHWood from the Rigs of Rods community (However there they hate Sketchup for some reason). Glad to see ya working on RW3 IHWood!!

Nope its 3ds max haven't used sketchup in almost a year been learning since that sketchup ban on the ror Forums here is proof.

jpetersjr wrote:Would love to see some of those old trucks in RW as scenery, never a bad time to have scenery from years gone by.

They would be to high poly for Scenery the old 1952 r-200 international is my project in rigs of rods.

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I will have to check into that.

dogmouse wrote:Welcome to RWA, Ihwood ! Drinks are on me!


The 630 is lookin mighty fine! Are you a 3dsMax user, by chance?

Pip pip, and all that rut! ~mouse

Thanks for the warm Welcome

~COMRADE!!!!!!~

this is what needs Railworks classical models ihwood congratulations!

Well put in another half hour got in the some the cab features and some of the body near the rear and is the any tolls fo scaling to import an use add as a guideline such as wheels or bogies.

b737lvr wrote:you are doing a great job, you could possibly sell these eventually if you want. Rail sim community REALLY needs new locos.

What he said! Also, please make sure that it is unwrapped with us poor re-painters in mind!

Since you are doing the c630, and could you also do the c630m? It's basically the Canadian version which has aunique looked to it with a different nose, air intakes, and radiators.

ihwood wrote: is the any tolls fo scaling to import an use add as a guideline such as wheels or bogies.

Come on, Y'all, the guy asked for help. all you are doing is dumping more requests on him! He's asking about what tools for scaling and importing. Y'all know that stuff, he's new to this. Give him a hand!

Wow ! Cant wait for this one ! Thanks for doing the Alco 630

Scaling: don't need to. 1m in Max ( I'd hope you're using metric, RW is almost all metric ) is 1m in RW. Importing, there are Max export plugins on railsimulator.com, they only work up to Max 2011 though and you can't use the slate material editor in 2011 either. Exporting is easy enough, export as Kuju IGS, and make sure you've got "Use Namespaces" or similar ticked.