Your Favorite Mods

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  1. montes_1234

    montes_1234 Well-Known Member

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    Would be great to have a list of top mods. So if you could write down which mods do you have installed and what do you particularly like regarding that mod. Also if you could write where did you get that mod from.
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  2. 7orenz

    7orenz Well-Known Member

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    On all the new skybox, then the bare trees (not yet updated to Unreal Engine 4.26) and then all the Route Enhancements.
    By far these are the first three.

    Sound mods are also very welcome.
     
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    Personally I love the mod for SPG and CRR which adds back in the manufacturer's plates and trademarks on all the instruments and equipment.
     
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    All mods for Boston.
     
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    montes_1234 Well-Known Member

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    There are some really good mods, like new cloud visuals, less signals lens flare and really every mod that changes/improves sounds of the trains.
     
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    I haven't really gotten into mods yet, as I'm not the best with figuring out how they work and I do find the thought of modifying my game a bit daunting. However I have really enjoyed the FGW mod and the logo pack for the livery designer, both by Trainsimcz. I also use the livery manager for sharing my liveries.

    The ability to add proper logos and to share my liveries has made me have a lot more fun with the livery designer. Nowadays I don't even neccesarily use the logos, but the mod has just made me enthousiastic enough to get into livery desiging and to learn techniques :).
     
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    Does someone have bare trees mod and mod that adds sounds for wind? If so can you write something about them, so are they any good and what they actually do?
     
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    A modder named Nina did two must-have mods, one for bare trees and the other a rain/wind sound overhaul. Unfortunately, they haven't been updated to 4.26 yet.
     
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    I don't think the tree one is necessary anymore.
     
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    I'd like to try the tree mod mainly because it felt like it weighed a lot less than the original trees to me. If this is true, we will all gain several fps. Of course, to check if what is written is true I should first try this mod updated to UE 4.26
     
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    Not the same one.
     
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    That is the one I converted, I didn’t bother doing the quieter one as it wasn’t as popular.
     
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    It would be really nice to be able to control the volume at which these sounds play back on a per train basis but you can’t. It’s a single soundset and the volume of it is determined by whoever mixes the sound for each unit.
     
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    Thanks for that. I am familiar with these mods. If there are some mods not from this site and are worth mentioning. Also which sound mod from loco sounds you like the most and find immersive and realistic? I like sound mod for the class 166 and 377, also for the class 43 hst.
     
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    Generally, rail-sim.de also has some nice mods, not all of them available from trainsimcommunity.
     

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