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Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby JohnS » Sat Jan 11, 2014 2:05 pm

Not sure if this was asked before but does anyone think there will be snow fighting equipment made for the Donner Pass route? I did a search here but I only went back a few months. Thank You
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby imphantum » Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:54 pm

I mean it's possible, whether by RSC or 3rd party in the future but as of right now there's been no announcement that that one is being developed.

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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby artimrj » Sat Jan 11, 2014 3:58 pm

If you go here there is a Russell Snow Plough with a modified RS3 to run it for free.

http://dickyjim.com/rollingstock.html


That the kind of snow fighting equipment your looking for?
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby Chacal » Sat Jan 11, 2014 5:20 pm

The Britkits Russell snow plow is good.
It works well with Donner pass, with the included SP RS3.
I'm working on improvements and scenarios.

However we don't currently have huge snow banks that we could plow through.
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby JohnS » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:58 am

I did see the russel plow and I like Dicks stuff. I was think more on the lines of the SP Flangers, Jordan spreader, or the famous rotary snow plow. For when the winters get real hard on the "Mountain".
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby Chacal » Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:01 pm

No one has done a rotary yest, but it wouldn't be that difficult with particles.
The problem is plowing non-existent snow banks. It's not great for supension of disbelief...
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby NSrailfan6130 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:40 pm

It would be cool if you couldn't see the tracks until your train plowed it and the snow gets higher on the edges after it plows through
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby arizonachris » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:59 pm

mdurdan wrote: I'm working on something interesting... I'll let you all know soon !!*ok*!!


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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby NSrailfan6130 » Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:13 pm

mdurdan wrote: I'm working on something interesting... I'll let you all know soon !!*ok*!!
Soon... ranges from a day to a year !*don-know!* !!det!! Gotta love hate the word
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby Chacal » Sun Jan 12, 2014 6:14 pm

mdurdan wrote:I'll see if I can talk to dick about how he made the snow build up in front of his snow plow.


It's all there in the lua script.
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 -- snow piling up on front of plow
  if gMOWcrew == 1 and SNOWPUSH1 == true then
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow1", 1 )
  else
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow1", 0 )
  end

  if gMOWcrew == 1 and SNOWPUSH2 == true then
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow2", 1 )
  else
    Call ( "ActivateNode", "PushSnow2", 0 )
  end

gMOWcrew = 1 when the plow is moving forward. SNOWPUSH1 and SNOWPUSH2 are true at certain speeds.
The script activates one of two child nodes (snow piling up in front of the plow) depending on the speed.
Of course this snow moves with the plow because it is a child node.
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby BamItzMuffinz » Sun Jan 12, 2014 8:14 pm

Just being able to throw snow up while driving through it would be cool. I've tried the snow plow and I have to say, it's pretty dern good! :D
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby Chacal » Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:37 am

mdurdan wrote:Nice! I'll have to see if he will let me steal his scrip and kidnap his children !**duh*!!

You don't have to steal his script. Now that you know how it's done, do something similar.
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby BNSFdude » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:01 am

mdurdan wrote:True, maybe i can re work the GEOPCDX files as well *!!thnx!!*

I'll post back here with just what I'm doing...kinda obvious by now but you may be surprised :D

Redistribution and reverse engineering of geo files is frowned upon...
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby Chacal » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:29 am

Yes, usually you don't touche the model without the author's permission.
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Re: Donner Pass Snow Fighting?

Unread postby PamBrooker » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:07 am

mdurdan wrote:As I said I will be re working them as in making my own !!*ok*!!


Now that I finally own Donner i've started really wanting a rotary. I'm really glad to see your doing it. Thank you.. I can model but I'm good with numbers, not shapes, so yeah. Thanks :)
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