Hawk & Badger Railroad Forum

Well, from my limited time on the forums, as well as my restriction to v1.05, here are my absolute favorites. 1. Yellowstone (by oilcan) 2. New Zealand South Island (by Tim) / New Zealand (by David) 3. Borogravia (by Lars) Those are the ones that I find most fun to play, and Yellowstone in particula...

Something that I think all prospective map-makers should do when starting a new map is to look at the google-maps/microdem tutorial I started in the map creation section. It goes over how to use a google-map or google-earth screenshot and drape the satellite data directly onto your map, and have it ...

Thanks very much for all the feedback! I finally finished all my schooling, as well as the lengthy and exciting move from the San Francisco Bay Area to 30 minutes north of Manhattan. I've got my life back to a (mostly) normal schedule now, and am getting ready to start working on my map-making proje...

Wow guys, this is amazing! Gumboots, GREAT JOB on the in-depth research on this project. Concerning the texture degrading when you zoom in on my Durango & Silverton map, I had always just assumed that that bug was just a side affect of me using the mac version of RT3, and it always bugged the he...

Does anyone mind taking a look at the win scripting? I'm still pretty new to this, and am not sure where I went wrong, but the game gives you silver once you connect to silverton, even if it's before the gold date.

Indeed I have, but thank you for posting them!

Hi everyone! For all of those who are living in central California, I have a general question: does anyone know anything about the Pacific Coast Railroad? All I have found out so far is that it was a narrow gauge railroad that ran from Avila Beach to San Luis Obispo in the late 1800s. I'm looking fo...

Argh, that's what I was asking for, gumboots. That would be a freaking awesome feature. Oh well.

Anyone know if there is a way to custom consist what is NOT included in a load? That kind of feature would be extreeemely useful.

I watched the show on Netflix, but it only had season 1. nevertheless, I was OVERJOYED when I looked it up online and found that it had a second season! cant wait to watch it. Overall, I think the show is good, even if it just brings railroading into modern TV. I found the dialog to be extremely har...

Gosh, thank you everyone for the amazing feedback! I feel very lucky that there is such a vibrant, passionate railroading community out there who still keeps this game alive! Not all games are so lucky. Oil Can - Great suggestions! I will be sure to make those changes regarding the rewards for town ...

Oh I see what you're saying. the other option is doing a slight lens distortion filter in photoshop to correct it. It would just mean searching for more coordinates on the google map so that the distortion is accurate. Further testing should be done to confirm this. By large area, you mean something...

ah, I see! I was wondering what those things meant... i'll try playing around with the terrain heights

gumboots, what do you mean by projection?

I did limit the resources, in an attempt to keep the available resources more realistic with the actual region. I managed to get silver on medium, but I haven't managed Gold yet. It might require softening the gold requirements a bit to make the scenario more balanced. The way I started was by immed...

So if I were to go back and look at the route more carefully in real life, and try to adjust the terrain to reflect the various inclines and tunnels that the REAL Durango & Silverton had, do you think it would make the scenario better or worse?

Hey, for those of you following my post about using google maps as a texture overlay in conjunction with MicroDEM, here is the first draft of my very first custom-made scenario, called Durango. It's about the creation of the Durango & Silverton scenic railway in Colorado. Only requirement is the...

Yes, in fact, that is the process that I used. However, as this was my first time using MicroDEM, I found that those inital coordinates needed a little bit of tweaking in MicroDEM in order to fit the 64-point pixel parameter that is required in RT3. So in the end, what I found was that I chose the i...

Holy hannah, I just overlaid the satellite map, and it looks great, but then I found a new feature. If you overlay the satellite image, you can then use the blur tool and set all the settings to maximum and use the fill tool to blur the entire map, and check out the difference. BEFORE http://farm9.s...

Yes, indeed :)

This project is going to be put on hold until I finish the Durango & Silverton scenario. My intention was to create a BART regional transit scenario, but I'll get to it when I can.