PC Wip - Midland Mainline Enhancement Pack

As a fellow Playstation player I know your pain.

 

DTG you need to hire this guy!

 

Idk but it needs to change.

 

The new tracks visuals look great, don't they?

Regarding the signal colours and visuals, I've made them even brighter and also included the older incandescent signalling too. You now get a nice glow at night from them. My biased opinion of course but the colours themselves now looks so much more accurate compared to older TSW releases

 

A preview of the new Station Announcements included in this mod.

Note: Because TSW does not yet have the logic to determinate what time and location announcements are set off at, these announcements are totally random, and will not represent the current location or time your game is set at.

It is more for background ambience.

 

Update on the TGS (Trailer Guard Standard) Mk3.

It now has correct transparent windows & I've added a custom door seal texture for the compartment doors which IRL swing open to allow for more room to unload & load etc. I would try and edit the mesh to incorporate some proper door seals if I knew how to but I'm just not skilled enough with Blender to do that right now.

I've also added the respective cargo door handles which were missing as well for some odd reason.






And if you're wondering, yes you can look through but there's not much in the guards compartment to see, IRL it's very dark so you wont see very much.

 

Skyhook have changed the ballast officially. You can see it in the screenshots they’ve been sharing, so you’ll get it on console too.

 

Is there a link to this?

 

as much as it may get boring irl, could you possibly do a btp (see it say it sorted) one as that is played anywhere and isn’t specified to a certain time?

 

Unfortunately I do not have this recording, unless I can source a clear recording with no background noise from somewhere.

 

Thanks, I had a look at one of their dev screenshots and whilst they have indeed changed the ballast colour it's still personally too dark for my liking.

But props to them for listening to community feedback

 

Yeah, not perfect but certainly an improvement, so I’ll take it.

 

is this good enough? blob:https://rail-announcements.davwheat.dev/ef1f2f75-8ce3-48f1-88ab-40664fb1e880

 

Nope. I already have all of these recordings and the uploader seems to have changed the voice pitch quite significantly. So it sounds a bit like a chipmunk.

 

I attempted to mess around with some audio and got this, the end is a bit messy but do you think it could work?

 

Would it be possible to allow the HST coupling hatch to open? (I hope so, the fact it just jumps from closed to open kinda annoys me :/)

 

That would be down to Skyhook to fix I'm afraid

 

when is this out its still not been released to the Train Sim community page its been 3 weeks whats the go

 

Hi. It’s still being worked on. I’m waiting for SHG to release their patch first and then I’ll see if anything needs altering following the patch

 

It's always nice to have a bump up in signage resolution. Also notice the different station lighting temperature at night

Before and after -

 

Just an update - this mod is still planned to be worked on.

Whilst Skyhook Games are constantly working on and updating the Midland Mainline route, it’s safer to wait until they realise their patch first.

After that, I’ll resume on working on this mod.

 

Having a little go at weathering the EMT HST. This is still WIP and nowhere near finished. I'll only include this if the texture mapping doesn't throw up any issues -

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What I've done so far:

 

Amazing job! Love that weathering!

 

Good work LM. That looks more like the HST`s I remember.

 

Thanks. Still need to amend it so it should look a little different to what’s currently posted above

 

Glad you like it

 

Unfortunately I may have to abandon this project as the texture mapping with this HST is horrendous. Lots of clipping and other weird things happening. I can see why SHG left the HST pretty spotless as any weathering will present its weird mapping issues. The model itself is quite low poly so edges and corners are pretty rough looking.

Shame really as here you can see the difference between my edits with the HST and the MK3 carriage in regards to how different it looks after its been weathered.

 

So how's progress coming along?

 

It's coming along when you don't bump .

 

Given that patches are still being sent out, I don’t want to release anything yet in case the mod causes the route to crash or for it to conflict with anything.

Once the route has stabilised and the bugs have been fixed, I will release the mod. There’s still things a few people are working on so it isn’t ready just yet.

 

Found this on YouTube. It has the different TOC versions of 61016 including GWR, Southern and LU Bakerloo. Some recording have on train/platform background noise (even echo) but probably over half are very clear and distinct.

 

so its clear to say that this mod wont happen even know we have the update out sorry its just been way to long now and find that if u release it now its a waste of time also u have never delayed a mod before like this so idk what your issue is but your other mods have been diamonds and cant play without them so please just release it

 

He's already explained why it's not happening yet. Skyhook are working on another big patch so until that's happened, it's not coming. Be patient. It's not the end of the world if things get delayed

 

You really don't know how involved this EP can get. You've been banned on other platforms before for your... charming behaviour. I wouldn't push it - especially when these guys are doing the work and you've never touched the engine before.

 

With the amount of complaints you make with several mods, why don’t you just make the mods yourself then?

It’s not rocket science, and with the several rude comments you’ve made in your videos and the TSC website it seems like you can do a better job then the rest of us

 

The mod is still set to be released. As you’re probably already aware, Skyhook/DTG still have further updates which are to be released for this route, as the latest one caused a few issues with it, as not everything had been included.

As I said before, there’s no point releasing the mod before the route has been fully patched as it could potentially break things. Also note that people involved in this mod do it in their spare time and do it out of goodwill/voluntarily. You have to remember that people have their own lives out of TSW/modding.

Please think before posting such comments next time. Rudeness won’t be tolerated and will certainly not speed anything up.

 

Work in progress:

Some scenery improvements made by Rob39 which includes the addition of grass to cover up the rather bare looking track side, as well as new asset placements including signal cabinets and cable trunking.

 

Talk about the level of disrespect, it's off the charts and it's the first time I've ever seen someone take it out on community members for "slacking off". I'm very aware from the TSC Discord presence that you contiunally take the absolute mick out of other people's work and bad mouth the developers because you don't get what you want is just straight up an absolute selfish act. It's as if you want your food to be served on a golden plate with shiny cutlery for crying out loud!

It's one thing to have a go at DTG for making mistakes and not living up to their promises, but to do it to community developers who spend their spare time making content which they don't get a penny out of is bang out of order and it has to stop.

As it's been stated before the pack is being put on hold for the official patches to be released since the changes are very vast & broad and will require us to make some changes + drop some them all together (the modified TGS is one of them for example). It would just not be sensible to release our pack when a lot of changes that we have done ourselves have been implemented officially by Skyhook.

Please refrain from doing this next time or else I'll be personally announcing to others not to watch your channel content.

Thanks.

 

Stunning well done love it

 

No idea why you're all feeding the troll... no capitalisation, punctuation or decoration of any kind and yet expects to be treated with respect even though they give none?
I'd ignore and move on

 

Good idea. Account reported for obvious trolling and posting inappropriate comments.

 

Thank you LondonMidland for all you and the other modders do to make the routes/locos so much more pleasurable to run - or even worthy of running in some cases. Someone above said it was not rocket science but it is to me. I am contemplating planning a scenario in which there is a miscreant tied to the tracks just outside Long Eaton. Said miscreant is the very rude gentleman above.

 

Scenery looks great! Actually, I thought lofts weren't placeable in the unofficial editor? (assuming cable trunking is a loft/spline)

 

Thats right. Splines dont work. Either place individually or come up with a credible alternative. Mix of concrete blocks, mixed with foliage, with small manageable sections of the spline asset.

 

Amazing!

 

Some work by JetWash for the ongoing MML E.P mod -

Brand new posters, featuring real life advertising, branded snacks in the vending machine and finally branded Network Rail vans.

 

Just putting it out there I find It criminal that there's no snickers bar in that vending machine

 

Evening guys.

The MML E.P is nearing to complete. Just a couple more things to sort out and it should be good to go!

Some screenshots of the latest developments:
- EMT MK3 carriage light bleed fixed
- Extra lighting in depot areas
- Extra foliage in deport areas and along the route
- Cable trunking and other lineside equipment added along the route
- New ballast visuals