An Old School Covered Hopper

[MaineLines]

Still playing around with the textures. I chose SP because I had the most info on it.

[captkilljoy]

That looks really nice.

[PapaXpress]

Can't wait for you to finish up and release.

[BNSF650]

WOW thats nice.

[MaineLines]

Thanks for the encouragement. For this old photo-texturing guy, this hand lettering and shadow baking is a real learning experience.

[TVRRMAN]

Thanks for the encouragement. For this old photo-texturing guy, this hand lettering and shadow baking is a real learning experience.

Looks magnificent so far. After a while of modeling, the land lettering part of the process pretty much gets easier and easier. I can't vouch on the shadow baking though (never played with Max or even Blender).

For curiosity, do those hatches on the roof operate for loading at pickup points?

[MaineLines]

Haven't really considered any animation yet. I know how to animate the model in Max, but animation in the RailWorks blueprint is still a mystery to me.

[jpetersjr]

What will it be, payware or freeware.

Just curious as to what it might be.


Love the model, keep up the good work, looks magnificent.

[MaineLines]

All my stuff is freeware.

[thecanadianrail]

it looks like it is nearing completion, great another 5 star model from another great bulder!

[dejoh]

I agree. Will Krellnut's wagon sounds work with these?
As always, looking forward to these.

[micaelcorleone]

I agree. Will Krellnut's wagon sounds work with these?

They should work with all US wagons. Just copy the files into the appropriate folder.

[MaineLines]

Progress has been a little slow. I had some issues with Ambient Occlusion in Max and also decided to switch from Paintshop Pro to Photoshop and had a some re-learning to do. Here is the version without the cut outs in the side sheets: SP had them both.

[MaineLines]

I am now in the very frustrating " IGS Exporter crashes Max" phase of RailWorks rolling stock development. Hope to find my way out of it soon.

[kin3]

Wow...looking good.