henricjen

Cant wait to use them on my layouts Brummi You are indeed the head gardner

Looks great but watch all that coffee and cigarettes

Very good usage of backgrounds (hintergrunden) blended with the hills

Danke Wüstenfuchs

Hi all, Do I have to upload a layout and get 25 likes to rank (rang) 1 before I can upload my first textures? (Thats what I get from https://en.3d-modellbahn.de/wiki/8072#help-ratings) Right now my professional v4 account does not allow me any uploads at all. See the attached acccount information. Kind regards, Henrik

To celebrate Reinhardt's great work, the ET IC arrives for the first time at Budenheim

Hi all, I have decided to base the schotter on a freeware texture. I have also created a new boden schotter texture from this. So after a lot of Photoshop work, trial and error, the initial result is this:

Wonderful 3D work and texturing Reinhard

And a "State for the layout" overview

The small farm station starts to come to life.

Wonderful trees and scenary Brummi

Hi all, getting to know how to create contents for this fun simulator, I have started working a bit with textures. I have worked on the basic track texture to try to: Create shading under the rails in the gaps between the sleepers. Sharpen the textures. Add rust to the rail sides. narrow the round top of the rail a bit. Adding a little dirt to the length of the tracks along the rails and in the middle of the track.

Ok, turns out you can export a texture template to the .dds format. And then open it in a graphics editor with a .dds import plugin ( I use Photoshop CC with a freeware .dds plugin) It opens as a 512x256x72 RGB 8 bit image. Then you can create a new texture with the right track and ballast graphics at the right positions and save it as a .jpg. This .jpg can then be imported as a track texture. Got to love reverse engineering

Hi all, I am new to the simulator and would like to try to make a new track texture. But I can not find any downloadable graphics template I can work on. And I cant seem to find a way to download one from the online library and then replace it with a new image. Is the such a track texture template anywhere online? Or can I find a link in a PDF guide? Kind regards, henricjen

A slighty different angle...

Hi, love the turntable and the Gleis S49. Is the S49 available for download?

Hi Wustenfuchs, I certainly plan to upload it. But it will properly take some months for me to get to a "finished" state

Very nice track and catenary work Hans Could we see an overview of the entire trackplan?

Hi Brummi, your name "Roter Brummer" seems to pop up on so much on the models I choose to use. From stations to the excellent catenary, you seem to be one of the super creators here in 3d-modellbahn. Thank you for all your work That of course goes for all the creators that share their work online for us to use.

And an updated overview

The deep forest is spreading around end station "Berg Kohlerwald"

Budenheim buildings in place. Now detailing starts...

Hi all, I have just discovered this gem of a 3D train software product. Of course not all ressources are of prototypical quality. But the features in v4 are vast, so easy and intuitive to use. And then underneath you can create advanced macros for traffic control. I am very impressed and surprised I never have heard about this product before. To get started, I decided to start making the small Marklin layout, I unfortunately dont have room for in real life. Technically it is a small 4m x 1,1m layout using Marklin C track. Concept is a traffic layout, where running of trains between stations is the focus. Theme wise its about a local DB point to point railroad line from a main station "Budenheim" with connection to the main rail DB net and through the farms lands to the Alpes. It also have a parade main line for long trains. From the Alpes and farms, ressources like coal, logs and cattle are being brought to "Budenheim" and being send to the main line in longer freight trains. There is also a local passenger service with special trains for tourists. Local line is handled by steam engines and the main line by electric engines. The main line also acts as a shadow yard with 5 tracks. I will post more as the layout progresses... Nebaru PS. I can read and understand German. But my German grammer is too bad, so I have to write in English.