Rangierbahnhof

At the end of my route I close with a old 'Rangierbahnhof'
Here some example pictures of the new tracks made for this and some Birch trees for between the tracks.

Nice days, good RW 2011 !

SAD

A video of a drive through Bad Rinckenburg the current end of the line, about 20 km from Köblitz. In the published version of my route this line ends in a portal. Ater Wildau the branch line continues about 10 km to Hosvenn as a museal railway.

last kilometers

At the moment I am working on my last kilometers of scenery, some catenary, and a lot of foliage.
In the next weeks I will give more information about release and date of my route untill then, here's a preview.

Regards SAD

At the moment I am placing a large amount of scenery, and the gaps in the route become filled..I am already dreaming of completing it...
Movie of new levelcrossings and scenery. SAD

Railworks 2

One big advantage of the Railworks 2 update are the working levelcrossings!
Here's mine. The levelcrossing are not perfect yet, but they are very easy to make and placing is much more simple than the previous ones made by others. (They did of course a good job, a working levelcrossing without a proper bleuprint)

The village of Schleusfeld , after this only one to go.
After that  6 new stations have been added and about 25 km of main line.
The most tricky part will be the signalling, but I might get help.
Release? I don't know, last project took me a year and a half..this time, before christmas maby?
Although I have not finished the work, I am wondering about my new project. A route in the Netherlands or Belgium?

Greetz SAD

small Video

Can't stop..

Otherwise i should finish placing scenery on my route..I can't stop making new ones, especially foliage.
Here's a picture of a Grape Vine for a nice German white wine! SAD

WIP

Hi,

after some silence, want to let you guys know, that development is still going on. I hope to make a new movie in the next days of the finished parts. Here's a preview pf the new station of Köbler Wald.

SAD

Misty morning/4 seasons

Just a occasional scene made out of a new tree loft. With just a view assets/lofts and clicks you can create a new world at a distance without overloading the graphic engine.

SAD

Also made a video with seasonal varation of my foliage assets:

Yes, this is also Railworks

My firts building with interior. It has only one LOD and very short view distance. Why not..when leaving the building it doesn't have to be visible anymore. In this case the game engine does not slow down to much, whem passing this building. I'd like to use this as a starting point in a scenario.

Regards SAD

New Assets

Today I started with new assets.. My route will have a second line added. Trackwork is almost finished now. Also in this section...every village a own church and station!

Regards SAD

Small Vid HD

Hobby and Job

I have made a small movie for my pupils to explain something about my hobby. Of course, most boys are almost addicted to gaming, but Railworks of is more a game for grown-up boys.. I rebuild our school in Railworks and added some dreams..these objects are included in the next version of my route.

Regards SAD

Work

Hi Folks,

I am right busy now..my job is taking all time and energy, but I am not forgotten our Railsim community..
In summer I will continue my work, and some intresting news is coming..

Regards SAD

 (picture, detial of the new village of Hosvenn)

Route under re-construction.

After a intermezzo I will continue the work. I found somebody who offered me to redo the signalling of my route. Meanwhile I can make some new scenery and a second expansion of my route. After the section from Wildau to Hosvenn, also the main-line from Köblitz will continue.

Here you see the church of Altenburg in restoration, and  a pile driver in Köblitz(animated with sound, movie coming next)

SAD

Nostalgic movie 1

While waiting for some information and testing the new signals I have some time for playing around...

Other changes made to my route are:
-changing some tunnels and gradients to make it more real.
-some scenery and trackwork changes to change the time in my route. (building under construction will develop)
-after better signalling I will make new scenario's
-90 new assets.

I don't have a releasing date in mind at the moment...

Regards SAD

St.Rudolf then and now.

View at the entrance of the station of St.Rudolf.

Just some screenshots..

Just some screenshots of Köblitz...

Wood-transport through misty forest.

Exported 6 new Pine trees for near view. Then I used the in-game view and printscreen to make mid-distance textures. In that way to difference between near and mid distance trees is not that great.
See the pictures, the near trees are single objects, the distance trees are grouped facing trees.

Regards SAD

Pine Trees

Wildau has a wooded environment...
So I made some near view pine trees, so our trains can drive through a dense forest without the trees constantly stare at you. I don't like the behaviour of the facing trees when they are close to the camera.
Here's the result:

Hosvenn

The village of Hosvenn is ready, only a few kilometers of scenery to go.
After that, I will give it a try to make german 'formsignale' for my route. I hope I can use and alter the lua scripts for the signals..but it will need some study...i think. Edited: I saw some pictures of the new Railworks version for Germany..with yes those signals. I think I will wait for them...

SAD

WIP

espite the addon section is only a few kilometers long..it is still a lot of work, again. I think every routebuilder can agree, planning time while making a route is senseless. Here some scenes with a new poplar tree for near view.

Regards SAD

Small update

I am still in the forests of Hosvenn, a national park with wild animals!
Also see the small village near Wildau..looks like the city is far away!

weekend update

Still working on the new section of my route,

Here some pictures in the forests around Hosvenn with new trees and other scenery.

Hosvenn and viaduct

A preview of the village of Hosvenn with the viaduct of the railway to Wildau.

Addon village of Hosvenn WIP

In my route the village of Hosvenn was still a empty spot with a station building on it..
Now the village is getting shape.. Here's the mountian above the valley with a ruin castle.

Getting on..

Regards SAD

Update and Add-onn

While working on next packages(churchpack and update/addon for my route) I present these pictures.
In the addon new scenario's will be added with new scenery. Here's the city of Wildau, where the anual stadfeste are celebrated with loads of german beer!
The Ferris Wheel and flags are animated.
I will keep you updated while the update/addon WIP.

Greetz SAD

Update

While sruggling with a internet 'broke down' I could work at my first update of my route.

Next update will have this changes/ add-on:

-fixed missing texture and missing object(s)
-new scenario's with new objects.
-new section from Wildau
-...

I am thinking about the way to publish it. Only a package with updated/added files, or a total new package..

suggestions welcome..

I am also thinking about cancelling the seperate packages of my objects. Some users are using my GermanLocal package, and the amount of downloads of my foliage pack(and also not seeing anything of that in UK-screenshots)are the reasons to save my time. Please let me now, if some are interested in those packages to include in their route.

Regards SAD

Foliage Pack 1 released

Foliage Pack 01

Over 80 assets for Route Builders

Objects out of my German Local Route

with new objects and improved textures.

For download at Uktrainsim.com

First Package

After finishing my route...some packages are being made for routebuilders to include in their build.
The first package is the Foliage Pack. In this package all foliage scenery items out of my route will be in there. (in a new asset folder, so a routebuilder can make a choice what he likes to inlcude)

While doing this..some of the objects are improved with better textures. I also hope to make some new objects. Download will be around the end of this week.Have a nice week..back to school again!

SAD

Released!

My first route is released!
http://www.rail-sim.de/

Download

The route is ready for upload this weekend!
This week I will present 2 vid's on youtube.
The first place for download will be http://www.rail-sim.de/
After download read the Information at http://members.upc.nl/s.derks/index.html

Very soon after that I will upload packages with assets out of my route.

Scen/arios/ery...

At the moment I am making and testing some scenarios. I want to make 4 to 8 simple scenario's for my route.

After that..finally I can upload my route.

The first shot is a scene of the Seebergbahn. I added some of my scenery. The next picture is a shot out of a scenario.

As I had told before, scenery will be avaible soon after publishing the route as seperate packages.

The folowing packages will be avaible:

-Foliage Pack 1

-Church Pack 1

-Building Pack 1

-Clutter Pack 1

-German Infrastructure Pack 1

-Network Pack(tracks)

I hope that using my assets will become easier for the routebuilder, but also for the future user. The less to download the better. Why should a Uk-route need to download the total package with German catenaryposts?

Suggestions and wishes are welcome, leave them here.

Keep you updated, Regards

SAD.

New Year

Hope this will be a happy one! Best wishes.

Today I finished my route. Signalling, scenery, mileposts etc.. al done now.

Next period it will be tested and completed with some scenario's. After that I can delete all unneeded files, and at last make some manual documents.

For those who are waiting for the scenery, it will also be avaible as seperate packages for routebuilders, so they don't have to select my template and route. (otherwise your world editor browser will be overloaded with assets.)

keep you updated, Regards SAD

(pictures: The cold cities of Koblitz and Wildau at the first day of january!)