Union Pacific No. 119 by Smokebox

[ElphabaWS]

Announcement at Dovetail Live for upcoming Smokebox Union Pacific No. 119 and accompanying 1869 Cheyenne route: https://live.dovetailgames.com/live/train-simulator/articles/article/highball-to-1869

[Sagefuncom]

Really excited for this! Looking forward to getting it!

[GERUNIMO625]

What an exciting week! My wallet can barely stand all the excitement.
I'm beside myself Mr. Rennie. As usual you've outdone yourself, the locomotive and route look incredible!
Also, Gary Dolzall shows his flair with the pen.


P.S. As some of you may know a tradition railroaders still practice to this day is to "high ball" a passing train or one you are meeting. That said, what do you say if something is wrong with that train, "Low Ball"?

Take care

[ZekTheKid]

Looking forward to the release!

[ET44C4]

Very impressive work!

[ozinoz]

Phenomenal

The level of detail and workmanship is without equal.

Congratulations Mike, it deserves to be a best seller...

[mrennie]

Many thanks to you all, I'm glad you like what I've done with the loco and route

[OpenRailer90]

There is already a thread for this locomotive in another sub forum on this site.

[mrennie]

There is already a thread for this locomotive in another sub forum on this site.

Yep, this one that I started a while ago: http://railworksamerica.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=18861

Maybe the moderator might prefer to merge them into a single thread.

[OpenRailer90]

It seems more logical to rather remove this thread as the original one has more relevant discussion.

[jpetersjr]

This is looking great.

Is there any way to have some animated horse riders with this as well though. Perhaps see a cowboy off in the background horse riding.

[mrennie]

This is looking great.

Is there any way to have some animated horse riders with this as well though. Perhaps see a cowboy off in the background horse riding.

Unfortunately, 3DCrafter doesn't support the skin-morphing shader, so I can't make anything but the most basic of character animations without them looking robotic. An animated horse rider is way beyond the capabilities of 3DC.

If any other developer feels like making more wild west assets (especially people and horses) for this and future 19th century routes, I'd have no objection at all. They could even come up with a Marketplace pack of such assets so that players could customise the routes for themselves.