The U.K.T.M. Project

[Hawk]

Here's a thread that may help. viewtopic.php?f=66&t=821

You can also read some of the threads found in the 'Letters to the Editor/Scenario Writing' forum.

[dazzharvey]

Took a few days off to relax for my birthday there on thursday, needed to chill with the future Mr's, she's so tolerant of my geeky behaviour, especially when at her home her dad has one of the largest collections of model railway layouts in the area (he runs exhibitions locally), I have been trying to butter her up to help me with my project as shes a programmer by nature and can write the events on this game 10 times faster than me on a good day, now i'm back from birthday land I have time to fully focus on finishing these maps off, apart from the base map of the UK I uploaded earlier on the forum I will have 3 more regional base maps released soon,(unpainted) all I gotta do now is sweettalk the lady to helping me get some challenges set up :)

[Moggie]

Took a few days off to relax for my birthday there on thursday, needed to chill with the future Mr's, she's so tolerant of my geeky behaviour, especially when at her home her dad has one of the largest collections of model railway layouts in the area (he runs exhibitions locally), I have been trying to butter her up to help me with my project as shes a programmer by nature and can write the events on this game 10 times faster than me on a good day, now i'm back from birthday land I have time to fully focus on finishing these maps off, apart from the base map of the UK I uploaded earlier on the forum I will have 3 more regional base maps released soon,(unpainted) all I gotta do now is sweettalk the lady to helping me get some challenges set up :)

Could you sweettalk her father to let you take some pics of his layouts and post them online?

[dazzharvey]

i have 2 weblinks for his sites, http://www.perthmrc.com/ and http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/

I went to the exhibition in perth a few weeks ago (my first time), I was pleasantly impressed with the amount of people there and what was on show, some really impressive layouts

I can only send links just now because the only camera I have at the moment is a rubbish one on my phone

[Moggie]

Whoa! The stuff on that community site is amazing!

[dazzharvey]

I thought so too, There are a few exhibitions on every year, I have only been to the one in Perth so far, planning to visit many more

[dazzharvey]

I am hoping to fInd someone who is good at skin retextures and also perhaps who can make a new train model for me, I hope I'm not being inconvienient in asking

I need a reskin for the intercity gner (want to keep the original, just like the class 50 Hoover has 4 skins) ha ha... 4 skins (sorry)

I would also like to know if its possible to build me a pendolino in this livery

[nedfumpkin]

I'll see what I can do. I'll get back to you.

[dazzharvey]

thank you nedfumpkin :)

I have been trying to make company logos today and i dont think i got the knack of it yet - i got half a logo then i got jibberish and lastly a crash, gonna try again tomorrow with a fresher mind, what I have done is make a 2nd TM folder for me to test and test until i get it right without messing up my original installation, I might aswell use my 2 TB storage. I am using coral and did try GIMP2 for the tga files, maybe i've just overlooked something in the making process

[nedfumpkin]

Keep in mind that TM is desigined for custom paks, rather than using extra skins etc. I can help you out with that, and since you are using corel too, I cn even send you files, like for the gner, I am pretty sure I have it as a corel cpt file all disassembled. I'll look tomorrow.

If you haven't, you should d/l the TM rolling stock development kit.

[dazzharvey]

Aye, I've downloaded the RS kit, just having a look at it the now, It's raining heavily today so I got a few hours to kill

[dazzharvey]

Yay, I managed to write some events but seemed to fulfil them too easily, buttering up works for the lady but she's busy busy just now with real world stuff

been experimenting with 3 smaller maps aswell as that uk map

Northern scotland (Caledonian line) 75% done
Southern scotland (Waverley line) 90% done
Wales (incomplete)
UK (might ditch)

i set the scenario on waverley to modern day to celebrate the rebuilding of the line but find that too many pre-existing railroads move most the industries around so might focus that one on buying up the industry or passenger movement instead, initially i intended to release the smaller maps a few company logos (most made) and possibly a new train (haha, my skills suck) as a pack but realistically id probably be still here in a couple years so just focusing on the maps one at a time making sure the events are challenging enough for mainstream release, I've a long way to go before even coming close to some of the recent releases, very fine work from the community I must say

[dazzharvey]

got a quick question, does anyone use slow date on any scenario? if so i noticed it asked for a number to be typed in, how slow does it go and how would this affect a scenareio of 20 Years?

[nedfumpkin]

slow date is what is used in one of the original Rt3 campaign scenarios, I forget the name, but the map was counted in hours. Perhaps that's the number it wants.

And if you want, send me the images for the logos you want and I can make them up if you want.

[dazzharvey]

Thanks :) here are some of the ones i had troubles with due to resizing, they didn't turn out so well and became all blocky or looked rubbish, I will let you work your magic and see how they turn out

also attached are the logos i have made, ready for judgement lol ;)