Creation Sharing Doncaster To Sheffield + Industrial Yards

Update: 11/07/2024
https://trello.com/b/SvLEGS1v/tsw4-south-yorkshire-addon

Project Board has been setup so everyone can see whats getting worked on. (This relies on me updating this, please bare with me as I sometimes forget to update.
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So right now I'm just playing around with the tools and just having fun project, it'll be a long time before I release this if it ever gets finished.

But I thought I'd shared what progress I've made so far.
About a week worth of track laying and Sheffield Station signals finished.


Conisborough Viaduct WIP model.


Used the existing Doncaster assets from the Peteborough to Doncaster route. (LNER)
Working on Signals still and blocking out more accurate buildings.


Doncaster Station top left and the wagon yard and train maintenance yard centre image.


Sheffield Station layout with tram tracks as well.

 

This looks fantastic! Wish there was a way to get these routes on PS4 too - a bit like creators club with liveries I suppose.

 

Doncaster to sheffield was going to be one of my routes but I've not been on the editor for a long time now. and I changed my mind to do Skegness to Grantham

 

Where did you get the lidar etc stuff from ?

 

https://environment.data.gov.uk/survey
Provided by the Gov for free =)

 

Mexborough Market (Left)
Old Market Hall (Centre)
Coltran Building (Right)

 

cool, thank you

 

Working on organising my project

 

This is amazing and it woul de an awesome finished project this is what i hoped to achieve on my route (chiltern mainline 'snow hill - lemington spa') but im so new i was struggling with basic track laying and left it be so i cant wait to see some cool projects released from others. keep it up its a route id def like to play

 

Thank you, I'm currently working on signals on the route as I've almost finished laying tracks.

 

Current progress on route.
The Doncaster area markers are wrong and will be updated.

Closer look at the Doncaster Decoy Yards, Depots.

 

Simple blockout of the Network Rail building made in blender, this building doesn't exist in the DLC.

Just a little update, so I will be using real world buildings and logos. As this is a mod and nothing more, I don't believe there will be a problem.

 

Here's an view of the Doncaster and the depots,

Still working on signals in this area.

 

Doncaster to Sheffield is a hefty route to do, the amount of signals and issues I have had with routing issues due to the complexity of some of the stations and tracks has been infuriating.

 

Current progress on Doncaster Depot Area.

 

Just out of interest. Where did you get the gradient profiles, signal diagrams and speed limits for the route?

 

https://www.simsig.co.uk/ for signals
Explorer the SimSig Wiki to get diagrams.
https://www.opentraintimes.com/ also for signals
https://travic.app/ for speeds

And gradient profiles I use Qgis, but I've not been using the gradient data as much as its headache inducing.

 

This looks mighty impressive!! I'm very excited to see where this leads to. Good luck!!

 

Thats really helpful. Cheers

 

This is how it should look in terms of how QGis ScratchLayer and Height analysing is setup.
For the layers you need to add each lidar source invidiually. And before you lay down any lines for the scratch layer change its properties for visuals as it will look like its not drawing anything when you first set it up.

To get the height you need to find a point and zoom in on the graph as I've not found a way to display only height atm.

 

Some blockouts of the residential towers, and a lot of reworking on the tracks due to some alignment issues.

Note: When placing track down and connecting double check the section joint as it will sometimes be unaligned and cause the train to jolt left or right depending on how bad the joint connection is.

Regarding track heights: Sometimes you'll be best to ignore what qgis displays and sometimes it buries the track much lower than it look like it should.

 

Mexborough Station Blockout


Conisborough Station Blockout

 

That looks very impressive so far! I hope that you decide to finish and release it, i would love this line in TSW4! Really well done!
Terrone.

 

I'm always over ambitious with stuff, i'm taking it slow with this as I'm still learning how stuff works and 3d modelling techniques.

 

Tramway Tracks have been placed but are not planned to be functioning, as I've no idea how to do any of the train stuff.



Overview of sheffield station, the whole stretch of the route is fully completeable with all signals placed, named.
Signal Route Rules will be applied when everything is finished.

Slow progress on gradients of tracks along the route, lots of testing and adjustments.

 

wow this im 100% looking forward to showcasing this on my yt channel when ready at long last a UK Project with PC Editor well done on the progress made so far

 

This is my local area so loving the progress. Keep up the good work.

 

Castle Court Blockout, big residential building that can be seen when approaching sheffield rail from the north.

 

I'm one person working on this so it'll probably either not be finished or will take a stupid long time =)

 

You may only be one person working on this but the progress is already looking great and I have to say I really hope you see this through because I am excited! Been on this route many times growing up and would so dearly love driving it. Keep it up your work is good this could be huge!

 

Where did you get the terrain dater for UK need for my route that I want to make

 

Doncaster Station Depot/Industrial Area, building blockouts.


Doncaster Station Depot Buildings Blockouts

 

Meadowhall Blockout (Aka: Meadowhell)

 

I can tell you from personal experience working in there that the tittle "meadowhell" is very much fitting and so is that blockout looks spot on, I'm really hoping you nail the look of the glass bridges over the tracks too or as I like to call them the saunas with how bad they are in summer

 

Meadowhall Bus Station Blockout


Bridge Clearance Test =)

Final update for tonight,
Both Bridges blocked out, station building are blockedout in blender but will be working on those with platform blockout.

 

Will try my best when i get to that process of detailing the blockouts. Substance painter is best friend for texturing =)

 

you have no idea just how excited i am for this route! My local!!!

 

Platform and Buildings Blockout.

 

Meadowhall Station fully blocked out.

Update: mostly blockedout =)

 

And more paths stairs and ramps blocked out.

 

Looks like trams will be doable =)
So far the DLCs needed will be Fife Circle (Class 170), West Coast (Class 158), East Coast (Peterborough to Doncaster) and for the Trams Edinburgh-Glasgow DLC.

Meadowhall Station Audio Announcements are functioning but the NPC AI isn't functioning currently for the stations (no idea atm).

Currently going through more gradient adjustments to cleanup the tracks before applying a temp platform to export to blender.

 

Looks like Meadowhall is going to be a main centerpiece of this route and I'm all for it loving the look of it good loco selection too! Do you know if there's a way to force liveries on the locos? Good work though its looking good

 

Only if you make them in the Editor and not the Livery Designer, which frankly you should be doing anyway.

 

makes sense! thank you

 

Oh no, I just started working on it as it was a big section I wanted to get blocked out, but it is a big area so it'd probably stand out most.
And multple services do stop here.

 

That is something I've not got to yet but have been on my plans to do.

 

That was my plan to begin with.

 

158 and 170 setup to have new liveries, exporting mesh data next to see if I need to change the model uvs due to how decals are placed.

Exported meshes will be imported into Substance Painter to make new liveries.

Unfortunately the Class 170 Destination List is different to how other trains generate it so destination displays might not be doable.

 

Yeah I believe in the preview stream for Fife rivet said their destination displays atm use a different system to the universal one other locos have and as such only display destinations on Fife circle line, until/unless they change that I'm not too sure if you'll be able to do much about it