This blog is primarily about my work in progress work for various train simuatiors and is meant to show progress of an object as I go along, feel free to comment or use a model (if you are able to download it) as you see fit.
I make these models from scratch, by hand with little help from scripts or other programs (except for example LODs). The textures are usually scratch built without any photo textures and a lot of effort goes into these models. All that matters is that you get some enjoyment out of them.
I never ask for money for my models, but if you think it is worth any money and you want to (this is completely optional), you are free to donate any money.
More DEMU development
So I thought I’ll post the latest progress, the 3Dmodel below probably doesn’t do it justice as it is a plain colour, mainly to allow a smaller file size. However, below is a rendering taken from my program of choice – an older one too. (Mainly because developing in modern versions isn’t easy at the later versions tend to s*** themselves with the outdated plugins and data structures!) So the static rendering gives an idea how thigns are looking at the momnet. But what is also interesting is that I used this model again as I like to during mid…
Another item!
Ok, I had a bit of a random thought with this one, hence why I had a change of project for the time being. You probably can guess what it will be, but I started as a believe it or not, a Class 416 DTSO model. Unusually, I also spent most of my time developing it in a Virtual Machine – as the item of software I used is soo old, it doesn’t work on my desktop at all. On my laptop, it crashes if it goes to sleep, so a Virtual Machine was seen as a solution – which…
Bugs (Trainz work this time)
This is why I never consider anything finished. So latest thing is, I uploaded my EPB unit to my site which if you looked, you’d notice its a pretty old model. In preparing it for Trainz 2019+, which required a lot of changes (I mean a lot!) and plenty of dependency and bug fixing, I noticed a big problem with the cab that I completely forgot about, I took this screenshot in TS2010 as I didn’t think ahead… again! It was build for the JET engine anyway. It works in the E2 engine as well, which suprised me. The biggest…
Rediscovering work… (Updated 16/07/25)
…. to publish on this site!Here comes another blog about WIP stuff, I’ve been trying to look for objects I’ve not touched but would like to publish for everyone to enjoy and this is one of them in its current form. Actually, I was messing with it on the train this morning but a power cut saw to that – knocked out both of my desktops and one had 3DSM open as I use a thin client. Thank you Scottish and Southern Energy Networks (SSEN), maybe it might be time to invest in a UPS? If you’d like to help,…
Hard drive failures and found files
Not WIP as such but when I get some spare time and references, I do still work on it. This meant to be for Trainz and I think the file is released (you can download it here: https://www.wessexelectricnut.co.uk/files/wip/trainz/PRRB.cdp)So I’ve been looking through my files as I’ve had 2 hard drive failures, one on my main desktop that luckily recovered most of the data and was safe, I later put that down to a system error corrupting files and the install of Windows 7 at the time.The later one actually happened more recently and I thought Iost everything I moved from…
LEV 3/R3 Railbus
On my main blog, WordPress blog, you may have noticed I was making this: You may of noticed that I’ve actually used the exported model in the model above and not that you can’t see it at all, there is some detail missing, this is deliberate as I managed to split the assets up into individual ones then use the attachment point to clone them. So, the seats are one mesh and reference through a mesh table, likewise for the windows, which using a modular approach, you change these 2 elements quite easily – or add your own. Theres one…