5 replies to this topic

[jt83]

I went around on highfade's Chamber's Bay and he seems to have used a texture for his railroad.  My old PC struggles with lots of 3D railroad parts so I thought this might be a way around it but I'm not sure how a single straight track was done.  When I start painting I get this -

 

 

I feel like there's a simple answer but it's proving elusive.

[DPRoberts]

Looks like he textured a cube.

 

If you are doing a straight run on flat terrain, here's the fastest solution. (less than 3 minutes)

In Unity, Make a 3D object - Cube

Create a Material and download a railroad image from cgtextures - https://www.textures...arch?q=railroad

You will see Highfade's texture in there.

Add railroad texture to albedo channel of material.

Apply material to the Cube.

Stretch the cube along the X axis.

Tile the texture in the Material properties in the inspector under the X axis setting until it appears correct. (increase this number)

Lower object to the terrain.

 

Image of object before lowering

[M Rose]

Put that texture on an EasyRoads path and it will work great.

[jt83]

Either way is going to be much better than copy pasting 10 meters at a time.  Thanks guys.

[DoGgs]

You can get low poly rail road on sketchup, thats what i used on lost tracks way, way back. I then painted stony texture under  and around it.  Its easy and quick to lay a long portion, just lay about 20 then select all, copy paste.  You can lay across the plot in a matter of mins, secs even.

[jt83]

The Sketchup way looks the best Doggs and because the track is in bounds in this case it would be good to have physics properties but what should be quick copy-pasting just isn't on my old computer.  I've been due for an upgrade for six or seven years now.