Mike's space

Well, as you are all probably aware, Train Simulator 2 is no more.  I wish there were a way to continue this effort but without a huge angel investment I am not sure something like that could happen easily.

I never wanted to stop working on something that I was passionate about or felt so strongly about how it would be received.  It was going to be awesome.

Once I figure out what I am doing and where, I will try and keep this thing more up to date. It's been difficult to write on here with the knowledge that we were losing a battle, so I stayed away.

Now I should be able to go back to what I was doing before.. and that is tutorials for general art related stuff. 

If you have a tutorial on a specific subject you would like to see.. feel free to tell me and I will do my best to get one done.

Thanks for sticking it out and waiting to hear more.

-Porter

Things have been extremely crazy for me lately and we have been super busy. so sorry for the lack of updates.

I recently returned from Texas.  My Dad recently had a stroke so I was down there to help out.  Being out of work for two weeks is weird and now that I am back it has reminded me that I wanted to try and keep this blog up.

At first it was very easy.  I was ramping up into learning a new job, so I had frequent bouts of down time while waiting for my next indoctrination into the engine and tools, however now that I am up and running it's hard to take time out to do anything else.

I apologize for not following through on the commitment I made on this site.

I am still going to release a demo of how to get the locomotives built and into the game just as soon as we release and I have had a month of recoup.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Some of the forums that I visit were talking about how the wheel chrome didn't look quite right.  I had always intended to replace the default chrome and was ready to do so before the National Train Show. 

Well laid plans aside, I was unable to get the new chrome look into the game.  So I am going to show it here.

I am not sold on the way it looks now and I may have to go tweak it more, but this is the newest incarnation.

I am hoping that once we get the lighting model into the engine I won't have to force the silver bands on top and bottom to be less bright.  We will see once we have that in.