Friday, November 2, 2012

3DC to Railworks - Making a Wayside Signal


3DC to Railworks - Making a Wayside Signal
by Jerry "SMMDigital" Conaway


This signal tutorial will explain, in moderate detail, the steps that are needed to put a SafeTran V20 wayside signal into the simulator. The signal we will construct will be rudimentary; advanced construction techniques such as UV Wrapping, Environment and Bump Mapping, Extruding, etc., will not be covered in this tutorial.



Before beginning, it is assumed that you have a basic knowledge of image editing programs, the 3DCanvas/Crafter modeling program, .ACE image file converters, the Railworks Asset Editor, and the World Editor in Railworks. The texture file that will be used has been pre-made.

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A discussion thread has been opened at Railworks America so that the community and those interested in signal building can bring forth ideas and solve issues concerning this tutorial.

Index
Part 1: The Head
Part 2: The Post
Part 3: Export and the Asset Editor
Part 4: Multiple Heads
Part 5: Afterward and Revision History


Jerry "SMMDigital" Conaway
July 2012, all rights reserved

Published with permission from Jerry Conaway


2 comments:

  1. great Tutorials
    Can we have the rest this one when time permits please... wonderful

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    1. Absolutely! I am waiting for the RCAP signals to come out (version 2) which will have the non-Kuju LUA scripts for controlling the signals. When this happens I can continue this tutorial and reference them.

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