An F7A in black and an SD40 in gray, both filthy dirty. Use TSW2 Livery Manager to install. (I didn't do the F7B, because CRR only ever painted one black, and the game would spawn it everywhere, so I thought it best to leave it out.) Link and Link
I like this livery very much, and I've used the F7A/B liveries for a bit, however I edited them to remove those gradients you put to replicate grime. All they do is produce a horrible banding on the loco which is very visible in the screenshots. Overall though, solid work.
Unfortunately, the program reduces LD files to a pretty low-res .jpg in-game, and that does just what you say with gradients. I don't like it, but there are very few tools available at present to use for weathering- basically two gradient shapes and the transparency slider. If someone discovers a hack which would allow editing the internal file in Photoshop, as with old-school .pak mods, I could really go to town. ------------ PS: What F7B? I never did one. Are you sure you aren't using WavyDavy's A/B set?
There is another A&B set on TSC as well as my own but I’m not sure whether the other one has any weathering or how well it’s been done.
Ok. So it seems there are now 3 black F7A reskins on TSC. You are right, I was using WaveyDavey's set. What are the chances the both of you used the same gradient which causes the same damn weird purple banding...
Yup. Unless and until LD is upgraded, there's no way to avoid it. Unless one is happy with clean sparkly shiny-new locomotives.
Actually I don't mind newish liveries, and let me explain to you why, and it's the same reason why DTG's stock doesn't have heavy and apparent weathering. Since the game applies the same textures to all the same locos (obviously), if you put too much weathering, make it obvious, it will make all of the locos with that same skin look very distinct like you're constantly seeing one loco. The key is to do the weathering, without going too heavy or giving it any distinctive marks because of this.
No absolutely, just don't give them any distinctive marks, so like a layer of dust or something is acceptable.
solicitr Gr8 job, tyvm for your efforts! Question- when I turn on the number boards on the sd40, the numbers themselves are white and can barley be seen against the yellow background. this wasn't the case with the stock sd40 as the numbers are black ( I have to check that now with mod active). I don't know if this is related to what you guy's are disguising or if its just a "me" problem
It has to do with the game itself. The CRR SD40 is actually the first loco where the number boards are paintable in LD at all- my Sand Patch is full of locos whose painted cab numbers don't match the randomly-generated number boards. Now they have addressed that problem- but, sadly, the "light" seems to be an element which the game applies in front of the number board, meaning that when it's lit it erases whatever is behind it. (On the F7, they simply blanked them out, which is why I faked up Clinchfield's dot-matrix nose number).
