Smokebox - 4000 Series

[AmericanSteam]

Impressive, The detail is astounding. The animation of all the controls, valve train movement, control rods and backhead control is very detailed. It has a multi part animated smoke hood that works. It can pull Sherman hill with ease pulling 100+ freight cars. Mike has really dialed in the physics. There will possibly be another update broadcast next month. Those into steam should watch this. There may be some rolliing stock released with proper physics to go along with this. Release may be by the end of the year but most likely in early Spring.

[Cardinal51]

Are there videos or photos available of this "weekend event" ?

[AmericanSteam]

Unfortunately no, The broadcast was not recorded. You can go to the Smokebox Facebook page to see what is there. It is impressive.

[AmericanSteam]

Michael Stephen is putting together a collection of period rolling stock with proper physics for the next broadcast. The biggest issue noted was the wonky resistance/physics values of available rolling stock. May be this will inspire some to correct the physics of some of the available rollingstock. I know that it has been talked of often here. It may be something that I can learn to do at my age.

[ozinoz]

Michael Stephen is putting together a collection of period rolling stock with proper physics for the next broadcast.

That will be special in its own right.

Looking forward to seeing it all in action.

(times 2 )

[ozinoz]

4014 & cars.jpg

4000 and a mile string of period box cars. Coming soon to a Sherman Hill near you

[AmericanSteam]

From Mike's FB page.

I'll be doing another Steam broadcast of the work-in-progress Big Boy starting at five minutes to midnight (23:55 GMT) on Saturday (going into the early hours of Sunday morning) the 31st of this month. I hope to see you there




Open Steam and tab to community, drop down will show broadcasts scroll to Smokebox's broadcast. You will need to calculate local time from GMT to get the start time.
Use this: https://savvytime.com/converter/gmt
EDIT: add a better conversion tool

[ozinoz]

REMINDER...

Mike is doing another live steam of his beautiful 4000 in action next Saturday night (31st Oct) at 23.55 GMT; so that is about early to mid morning in Australasia and very early morning in Europe etc on Sunday Nov 1 and late afternoon / early evening on Sat 31 Oct in the US.

You wont want to miss this.



...end of community service announcement

[Cardinal51]

Hopefully this time he will not delete the stream but keep it on-line.

[savv_nz]

Hopefully this time he will not delete the stream but keep it on-line.

He is streaming via Steam, it does not save streams.

[FanRailer]

Streams can be recorded, you know.

[mrennie]

Streams can be recorded, you know.

Quote from https://www.lifewire.com/broadcast-steam-4587132:

"Steam broadcasting doesn't save your streams in any form. Both Twitch and YouTube Gaming preserve streams, or give you the option to preserve them, so your viewers can watch them later. Steam broadcasting doesn't have that option, so your viewers can only watch you live."

[FanRailer]

Streams can be recorded, you know.

Quote from https://www.lifewire.com/broadcast-steam-4587132:

"Steam broadcasting doesn't save your streams in any form. Both Twitch and YouTube Gaming preserve streams, or give you the option to preserve them, so your viewers can watch them later. Steam broadcasting doesn't have that option, so your viewers can only watch you live."

Should have been more specific; you can record streams via 3rd party software.

[mrennie]

Streams can be recorded, you know.

Quote from https://www.lifewire.com/broadcast-steam-4587132:

"Steam broadcasting doesn't save your streams in any form. Both Twitch and YouTube Gaming preserve streams, or give you the option to preserve them, so your viewers can watch them later. Steam broadcasting doesn't have that option, so your viewers can only watch you live."

Should have been more specific; you can record streams via 3rd party software.

I'm not sure if my video card (GTX 1650 Super) would be powerful enough to play the game, broadcast and record all at the same time.

[FanRailer]

Streams can be recorded, you know.

Quote from https://www.lifewire.com/broadcast-steam-4587132:

"Steam broadcasting doesn't save your streams in any form. Both Twitch and YouTube Gaming preserve streams, or give you the option to preserve them, so your viewers can watch them later. Steam broadcasting doesn't have that option, so your viewers can only watch you live."

Should have been more specific; you can record streams via 3rd party software.

I'm not sure if my video card (GTX 1650 Super) would be powerful enough to play the game, broadcast and record all at the same time.

I'll shoot you a message.