PC (mod) Tsw 4 - New Signal Visuals For All Routes

Hey guys. I've been working on something quietly in the background, which I'm now ready to release.

This mod dramatically improves the look and behaviour of the signals and its flares in TSW, but especially so for new TSW 4 British routes.

Nonetheless, this will benefit ALL TSW routes. The details of what routes are benefited from it and how it affects then is listed below:

TSW 4 British routes ONLY:

• Brand new high-resolution signal textures
• Brand new signal emissive visuals (brighter looking light source coming from the signals)
• Brand new signal emissive colours (more colour accurate reds, yellows and greens)
• Brand new lens flare visuals (much more realistic looking, with the old low-resolution variant replaced)
• Brand new lens flare brightness (much brighter from a distance, especially so at night)
• Significantly increased lens flare render distance, especially so at night (lens flares can now be seen from MUCH further away)
• New lens flare behaviour (the flare size responds to the distance away from it in a much more realistic way. It no longer 'grows' unrealistically)

ALL other TSW routes, even older ones:

• Brand new lens flare visuals (much more realistic looking, with the old low-resolution variant replaced)
• Brand new lens flare brightness (much brighter from a distance, especially so at night)
• Significantly increased lens flare render distance, especially so at night (lens flares can now be seen from MUCH further away)
• New lens flare behaviour (the flare size responds to the distance away from it in a much more realistic way. It no longer 'grows' unrealistically)

Link is listed here. Enjoy!

Some pictures of it:

 

Once again console players crying in pain while seeing this That’s some impressive work, well done !

 

Very nice.

 

DTG Matt Please can you incorporate this into the main game so console players can have it too. It looks superb!

 

Had a feeling you would save the day, and you have. Thank you!

 

Great work as always londonmidland So happy to see you are continuing your fantastic mods into TSW4

 

add this to the list too!

 

Those shots look incredible, thank you for your continued hard work.

 

Thanks for the comments guys. I want as many people as possible to benefit from this, for when the game releases ‘officially’ on the 26th

 

So will it work with TSW3 too?

 

No. It says quite clearly it’s for TSW4 only!

 

No, it’s only for TSW 4, however it works on older routes too inside of TSW 4.

 

Loving the new signal mod. Much better to drive with

 

Any indication from DTG that they might use it as standard so console players can benefit? You do some great work and I’d love to see it on PS5.

 

I would like to see DTG implementig good mods in the core game too. Not just for console players.

Since Mods / Game & Sound enhancement is a fundamental part for me for immersion / annoyance reasons, i went for a PC for the choice of my platform.

Fired up TSW 4 on my 14 years old "highend" machine. Runs like a clockwork.

--》 i dont need to wait for DTG and hope something might happen. One big annoyance point less.

(Fired up tsw4 first to just notice all brake shut down levers of the german freight wagon were looking the wrong direction...at least on the habbins and sggmrrs)
On the new eanos wagons they are correct.

Straight down for active, horizontal for disabled)


Not sure if they have an "employee train knowledge problem", but this can be researched in less than 1min, made even a oic on saturday)

 

So not as many people as possible will benefit from it, unlike stated.

 

Sorry. I’m not sure. That’s something you’d have to ask DTG yourself to get the answer for.

 

I think you’ve misread. The title states it’s for TSW 4, with routes running inside the game.

This WON’T work for TSW 3 and older versions of the game.

 

LM, as always, thank you so much for your work. Have installed and will use it later today when I play ECML.

 

Looking good as ever and thank you.

 

If you’re on console and would like to see this improvement in the base game, make it known to DTG. Please comment asking for it and rate the heck out of the post to show your support. Maybe we’ll get it if demand is high enough. Fingers crossed.

 

were there talks about implementing soundmods/enhancement pack (if allowed by modder) into the game? such as the ICE 1 EP or the small ICE 3 EP (which is making the KWG ICE 3 the first one in TSW to have the redesigned look, it also sharpens up the railbow variant by the use of a seperate livery plus the EP for the yellow PIS and wider door lines blablabla you know the usual stuff)

 

idk why I talk so much about 3rd gen frozen water

 

Dtg have said this before but the issue with sound mods might be copyright or how they were sourced. You never know where the sound is coming from unless it is original high quality recordings and they own it.

 

well they could atleast try ask the modders and they ask the people who own the source audio if the usage of it in the actual game is okay and if everyone is ok with that then it could work out but if noone takes the first step nothing will happen...

 

Dad Rail has made a video of the mod for all of you wanting to know what it looks like in action - have a look here

 

Those screenshots are phenomenally good, I'll be sure to try out the mod as soon as possible!

Just out of curiosity, is there a particular ini mod that you use? The colors look superb to my eyes!

 

Let me know what you think of it!

All these screenshots are vanilla with no ini mods present.

 

Just ran a bit of ECML and the signals are much more visible as you approach them. Thank you LM for this mod.

 

Can't you edit a texture and edit a material (M_LedGlow_01) in your editor?

"ParameterInfos": [
{
"Name": "Lens Base Colour",
"Association": "GlobalParameter",
"Index": -1
},
{
"Name": "Lens Normal Map",
"Association": "GlobalParameter",
"Index": -1
}
"ScalarValues": [
100.0,
200.0,
200.0
],

Or things like <below> in M_LensFlare_01 ?
{
"Name": "Far DistanceToCamera",
"Association": "GlobalParameter",
"Index": -1
},
"ScalarValues": [
20000.0,
],

 

It states it benefits all routes, not all players benefit from it

 

Glad you like it. I personally like driving at night with the signals glowing from afar, slowly getting closer as you approach them.

 

Yep, same.. The difference is night and day.

 

Has anyone tried this on older routes, as well as non-British routes, to see if it performs yet? I’m intrigued to see what it’s like for you guys.

 

Great work! DTG need to be snapping you up for employment (unless I’m missing something!) signal look amazing will be adding this to my TSW4.

Thanks,

Reece.

 

Essential mod, makes hudless driving a lot easier, and a lot more realistic. Thanks, londonmidland!

 

london midland thanks for the mod!
Will there be new versions for TSW 4 other mods?

 

Do you mean existing mods or new mods?

 

Its a great mod 100% love it thanks londonmidland but would like to know when the updates will be ready for the SEHS/London Commuter aka brighton mainline and MML

 

Will your existing mods like the EP etc need new versions for TSW4? I haven't moved them over from my TSW3 folder yet because people have said route stuff will crash.

 

The older mods will need to be updated to work with TSW 4, which isn’t technically possible at the moment unfortunately.

 

Had a few ECML runs with the mod, makes such a big difference! Especially if you go with mini HUD or no HUD.

Hope DTG manage to incorporate this to the core game so everyone can benefit

 

It looks great during both day and night, if I do say so myself

No promises anything will come to fruition but I’m currently liaising with the developers, to try and help them to get it into the core game officially.

 

This is probably a naive question but what is to stop distribution of the .pak as is as an addon, like the pre order decals, without a change to the core code?

 

I remember matt from dtg saying that the way londonmidland mods the game can't be used by dtg. Dtg have to find another way so it's not a simple do what lm did and it just works.

 

I use a third party program to edit the values. DTG could distribute it via a .pak but this would only work for PC. So they have to do it the ‘proper’ way via their in house editor, which differs from the way I do things.

 

I must admit - this is the first mod I've tried to install - will feedback on it in a bit - but with it helping all routes at once and making signals more visible - I'm hopeful for a good experience.

 

Thank you for the wonderful mod LondonMidland. Much appreciated and I hope you are doing well.

 

May I ask which program you are using? I am not satisfied with some of the cab camera presets, and am desperately trying to edit the BRO 110 RVV uasset file which holds these values. I can load the QuickBMS'd file into KayHelios' AssetEditor but it won't let me save anything (index error), and UAssetGUI completely refuses to load it. Need help here, got a load of camera fix mods awaiting release