Fixing The Class 166: A Before-and-after Side-by-side Reality Check Vs. 166202

FROM PLASTIC TO FANTASTIC


Hi everyone, I wanted to share a look-development project I’ve been finalizing for the Great Western Express Class 166 to completely strip away the engine's default "gamer plastic" appearance. Out-of-the-box, the default factory rendering pipeline gives the train a glossy, translucent look or an over-saturated, highly fluorescent high-vis yellow tint that glows unnaturally under standard daytime sky frames. To fix this, I threw out the default settings and spent a total of 70 minutes on my desktop workbench fine-tuning the exact color-space properties and ambient light falloff of the front safety panel against a real trackside photo of GWR unit 166202 under a flat, overcast sky. By manually hardcoding custom coordinates—specifically utilizing a dense, warm industrial Chrome Yellow mix (RGB 255, 174, 66) and tightly restricting the uncalibrated ambient True Industrial Paint Texture: The yellow warning fascia now looks like thick, matte, solid industrial paint that realistically absorbs daylight instead of acting like an emissive video game light bulb. 2. Natural Carriages & True Fabric Weave: The dark green passenger seating upholstery has completely shed its greasy plastic sheen. The lighting decays across the interior surfaces naturally, making the fabric look like actual, thick commercial transport cloth where the light catches the seats. The interior walls hold a clean, natural exposure line completely free of global color bleeding. 3. Lg: Real-world commuter literacy . Take a look at the side-by-side visual contrast below and let me know what you think , top pic is the 166 from TSww second one is a reall Clsss 166 GW as a comparison


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Would you mind claiming the free starter pack and make the changes on the TSW7 GWE? The route have already been overhauled and its likely that most of the players cannot benefit from a mod of a game that's several iterations before (it would be 200% incompatible).

 

Theres are no tecture mods no assest mods no extra polygons nothing just attention to detail understanding phometrics , material properties etc , stock Class 166 from plastic to fantastic

 

Maybe a before and after picture helps more. Also, the indoor sections looks like it has a noise filter applied to it.

 

I can upload a default and afterr. Do you not know what the stock 166 looks like like washed out plasticy , i will do finement on what you see as " noise filter" .Im not done yet , never was some more fine , turing , ibe manage to get of rid of the plastic , shinny look all over the trains in tsw UE creates not walk in park my friend.Tunning continues i thiught show wgats possible

 

Yeah, I can't tell the difference either. The interior still looks very clean, with no weathering at all.

 

I didnt saything about whethering , wjo said anything about extra weather im not doing textures i dont use ue4 , in passer compartment its hard see due to dgt modeling and problem with roof mesh eith the 166 especially in sim , externally you can tell.Im installing ts7 starter and will try with that see if its any better better my piipline has worked well in other sims fernbus , xplane.vThe bottom pic is front facia im got almost match the real 166 in tsw2