Dennis
Established Member
Bill EWS said:
Lightspread from illuminated objects is quite easy to do as this just requires modification of static objects. There are two ways of doing this, either adding some diffuse lighting effects to the textures or by creating a semi-transparent sphere or cone of light emanating from the objects, as per many of the night routes currently around. As the Clarendon night run is set on a perfectly clear, moonlit night the latter option would not really be appropriate.
Not adding more lighting effects to the objects was a conscious decision for reasons already explained. Now I am happy about fiddling with signal bitmaps, I might modify these in the forthcoming extension to give the heads a night look.
re the Devizes line, this is being modelled as if it had remained open (having been closed by Dr Beeching nut briefly reopened as a diversionary route) - at the moment, modelling is nearly complete from Westbury up to Caen Hill bank (although a few local landmarks are still conspicuous by their absence). However, my coding skills have improved a fair bit since any work was last done on the line so some serious remodelling is required at a couple of locations, most notably the trackwork at Westbury.
Not quite sure where I am going to terminate yet - originally some trains terminated at Patney & Chirton (Woodborough) which is where I had planned to stop but recreating some of the mainline onwards is quite tempting.
