Railworks America

Hiya, would any of you give a few examples of (mainline) locomotives that are easy to repaint? I need to re-map one of my engines, and would like to know what is the easiest layout for re-painters.

have you tryed repainting a boxcar first? you should do that before.

I have no intention of repainting.

I heard the new GP9 is easy.

oh thats right, you are making layouts for you locomotive! completely forgot who i was talking to

oooooo some SD70M goodness!

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1090540

I'll show you some renders and the templates for some of mine if you're interested ..

Try and avoid cutting it in half, the join can do funny things to mips and it's not fun to paint. Problem is I seem to remember there was an issue with not-square textures and bumpmaps? in that case I guess as long as all the parts are exactly the same size and hopefully mapped in divisions of two or four from the edges - so if there's any compression involved it won't make one half look different to the other - then we can cope. One thing I really hate though is when people map little random parts way off in some unrelated corner of the texture and you end up spending a whole day looking for a couple of nuts. One other thing I hate is when you reference textures in the default folder too. And if you can get the sides and the ends ( and the cab ends ) all the same scale, that helps.

I rather like Derek's latest unwraps, and actually the default ES44/F7 aren't bad either.