Wartime austerity - but not under Churchill...

[JamesLit]

Sorry to disappoint, Andi....


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All still WIP!

[AndiS]

Totally shocked and badly disappointed.
Black! How could he decide such an uninspired colour? Looks like any other engine then. Will not buy. Same colour as the one in the default content. So what do I gain?
The first one to publish a yellow steamer would be in a unique selling position.

[JamesLit]

Still having many a tender moment, in the works...

[JamesLit]

Another step forwards...







This is only as a scenery object, and as you can see it still needs plenty of work doing to get it looking the part 100%, but we're getting there very nicely, now.

Next things will be addressing the speculars etc, possibly darkening/saturating the red, and sorting the shadowing.

The little blue spots are just my PC being dodgy so don't worry about those.

[DominusEdwardius]

Looking excellent so far, you should try to get it released via steam, certainly up to standards model wise, I'm sure DTG would be eager to get more German steam on steam ( especially if the BR86 has gone down well like I believe it has )

Although I do wonder why they bothered painting the brake blocks red, seems a bit pointless when they're going to get readily replaced and discarded

regards

Edward

[JamesLit]

Looking excellent so far, you should try to get it released via steam, certainly up to standards model wise, I'm sure DTG would be eager to get more German steam on steam ( especially if the BR86 has gone down well like I believe it has )

Although I do wonder why they bothered painting the brake blocks red, seems a bit pointless when they're going to get readily replaced and discarded

regards

Edward

I'm glad you think so mate but it looks like the route we're taking isn't going to go that way. Yes it'd be nice to get the likely number of sales but that's offset by the guaranteed higher commission they would take compared to the other options we're looking at, and so forth.. there's various reasons. We want to pull it off as a super-duper-advanced loco and as it stands at the mo it'll be easiest to do that by keeping it off Steam.

But we'll see what happens I guess. I just never envisaged us publishing through Steam but things could change I suppose.

I don't know on the brake block front either, to be honest, I would imagine in wartime they probably didn't bother in a lot of cases but they certainly did post-war.

I've had a WIP version of a clean set of textures for the tender passed on to me this evening as well, looking great but still needs a lot of work purely because various areas just haven't been finished yet (or in some cases, started at all).

But it's really coming together now, it's all very exciting - we have a sound guy who's going to be sending us some first bits at the beginning of next month. The main bit for us now is getting a scripter(s) on board who really knows their stuff.

[DominusEdwardius]

I would suggest it, maybe not for this one but if you continue your partnership onto another loco maybe doing that one on steam as a comparison between the two methods in order to find which is best. Commission wise, yes both steam and DTG take their share but personally I will always stick with steam/DTG as a method of distributing thanks to for the most part to the significantly larger audience and simplicity since we don't have to bother about it once it is released, that's all run by DTG/Valve ( save for fixing bugs if they crop up ). The beta testing is also pretty good too and generally finds a lot of the bugs you'd normally miss ( counter to popular opinion although it does seem to be a lot stricter for 3rd party ). Then again it's more game play bugs like scenario errors and control errors etc rather than technical problems such as valves doing the wrong thing or poor physics

Anyway, can't hurt to try in the future

regards

Edawrd

[JamesLit]

A very good point doing it "one on, one off", we will be doing more so we'll see how they go.

[Pauls]

Absolutely wonderful detail - love the distressed texturing !

Cheers
Paul

[JamesLit]

Pics are a bit crap as they're linked from Facebook (which most of my others are as well actually).

Tender has one completed texture set and another in the works. First texture set for the loco in the works - any parts of the model not shown are untextured as yet, and will be done this week.