"British Trains Pack" Locomotives and Rolling Stock Workshop

waterman · May 3

Hi

I am in the process of building several interesting Railway items for DCS.

Low Poly British Locomotives and Rolling Stock ideal to create a nostalgic atmosphere for Wartime 1940`s Normandy 2.

I took this Photograph while i was cutting the long DCS grass around the depot !

My Latest Steam Locomotive 2395

She is a huge Garret 2-8-0-0-8-2

A banking Locomotive used on the Worsborough Bank and the Lickey Incline.

The Wheels - i developed a technique using hand edited height maps converted to normal maps

They are just flat discs with no modeled spokes but look very effective.

So each wheelset is just 276 Tri`s theres 10 wheelsets total

The total Tri`s for the Garret is just 19,800

The Loco is made of 2 Sections - Forward and Reversed with a join at boiler centre to allow the long loco to follow track on bends.

All Wheels and Valve Gear are fully animated.

I am working towards a "btp" thats the "British Trains Pack" for Normandy 2

Here is an interesting article about the Locomotive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_U1

Edited May 3 by waterman

waterman · May 4

Hi its a bit of a long shot but -

Does anyone know how to change the position of the German class 86 smoke e.g. the chimney output position ?

I looked at the edm in the Model Viewer and i cannot find the connector or what it uses.

Anyone have any ideas how the smoke effect is generated or where its located in the DCS files ?

I have got the smoke to work on the garret by pasting my loco edm and renaming it DRG_Class_86.edm

Just means i cannot use the German class 86 in Britain so no big deal.

TeTeT · May 4

For ships the smoke is defined like this:

GT.exhaust = {
          [1] = { size = 0.2 , pos = {3.9136, 34.468, 11.437 } }, --Y, Z, X
}

Maybe some similar table can be found for trains?

waterman · May 5

23 hours ago, TeTeT said:
For ships the smoke is defined like this:
GT.exhaust = {
          [1] = { size = 0.2 , pos = {3.9136, 34.468, 11.437 } }, --Y, Z, X
}
Maybe some similar table can be found for trains?

Thanks for the info - a while back i did try tweeking the values on the ships and it did change the smoke on them.

Sadly I think the lua file for the steam locomotive that i need to edit is locked up in the WWII units - manifest.bin or the dcs_module.pak.crypt files.

I am going to check out the Deisel Loco CHME3T.lua file in -

E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\DCSWorld\CoreMods\tech\RailwayObjectsPack\Database\RailwayObjects

I have attached the CHME3T.lua file in case anyone can edit it and show how to add where the Gt.exhaust etc goes for me to use smoke.

I have now built 2 versions of the garret because they were often seen running in either direction they were too long for the local turntables.

thankyou

CHME3T.lua

Edited May 5 by waterman

Slippa · May 5

Well done Waterman

TeTeT · May 5

Unfortunately no trace of exhaust in https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/blob/master/_G/db/Units/Cars/Car/Locomotive.lua either, so maybe it's not possible.

waterman · May 15

My New Low Poly LMS MK1 Coach is now 80% complete

Easily converted to other Region Liveries.

So can be used for British routes on Normandy 2.

Total coach model is 5,600 tri`s 1K texture map

Bogies are just very simple flat outline shapes extruded and textured with a bit of hand drawn magic to the height map then converted to a normal map.

The picture shows the same bogie duplicated with the textures turned off and on.

Each Bogie is 1100 tri`s