Pounder's Completely Redone Railroads

[Pounder]

June 4, 2011 - Download is here Pounder's Railroads TNG




December 20, 2009 - Rails 4.7 Download on post #105

Don't know if anyone still uses these.

Here is another set that I have removed a lot of the unnecessary paved roads and bits of rail. Have also removed virtually all the buildings and shrubs.

I have been using many more resources than I have in the past and wanted to remove some of the unnecessary clutter.


Edit: June 4, 2008 Posted some updated rails with telephone poles. Preview and Download on thread #101.




Edit: May 5/05 Post #3 has a download of Rails with Telephone Poles

Edit Dec 19, 2004
Changes:
Where the city density increases I have made about half of the 17 tiles that go all directions into road only so there are not as many rails within the city. Looks a bit more like industrial parks or subdivisions. There are a few other tweaks that have been made over the last several months. The download is here in Post #1 just below the preview.

I have re-done the railroads from scratch, as I didn't really care for the Firaxis version.

There are railroads interlaced with paved roads, I did not touch the regular 'roads' file.


After you unzip it and place it in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\Terrain[/b]

Be sure to backup your existing railroads file in case you ever decide to change back.

 

[Krayzeenbk]

Please consider decreasing contrast, as suggested in the preview thread.

 

[Pounder]

I have been working on the adding telphone poles to the railroads files.

I have them going NW-SE only so that they can have termination points, as well I did't want them absolutely everywhere.

As with the railroads, I think they look kind of cool as they are being built.

After you unzip it and place it in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\Terrain[/b]

Be sure to backup your existing railroads file in case you ever decide to change back.

 

[Drift]

I was thinking of a more subtle change in contrast. Something like this: (black replaced with (66,66,66).

 

[masonl]

Thisis a really nice change. All the curvy tracks in the game are really annoying.

Thanks

 

[Krayzeenbk]

Drift got it right, I was about to do it myself Those are great railroads Pounder.

 

[Pounder]

Originally posted by Krayzeenbk
Drift got it right, I was about to do it myself Those are great railroads Pounder.

Drift, Krayzeenbk

I don't have the best tools, kind of limited, if someone would post a version adjusted the way you would prefer, I would be grateful.

 

[Gogf]

I like them, but some of them don't seem to connect. Oh well, they still look great.

 

[Drift]

Here they are with the 66,66,66 gray:

Download

 

[Pounder]

Originally posted by Gogf
I like them, but some of them don't seem to connect. Oh well, they still look great.

There are two different patterns interlaced, one for the paved roads and one for the railroads.

Not all railways go on for ever, especially within a city where you may have a public transit line that only goes 20 or thirty miles.

 

[Pounder]

Originally posted by Drift
Here they are with the 66,66,66 gray:

Download

thanks Drift

I'll change the download in the first post to load this one.

It is very subtle, but I can see the difference.

 

[Krayzeenbk]

The color change required only a small palette alteration. Thank you, Drift, for posting it.

 

[TheMorpheus]

Looks very good,

 

[Mobilize]

They're nice and all but they're too straight. They look kind of weird too. I'm gonna have to stick with the Firaxis ones.

 

[Ankka]

Look very nice IMHO.

Man, you use fat borders!

 

[Mercade]

Interesting borders, nice and broad. Very visible.

 

[Bobisback]

Looks cool

 

[Pounder]

I have updated the download on the first post, added a few more curves to the paved roads. No change to the rails.

Originally posted by Gogf
I like them, but some of them don't seem to connect. Oh well, they still look great.

Gogf was right, I found one tile that was off by a Pixel, it has been fixed.

 

[Corey]

It's needed to work on it litle more to be god!

 

[Bobisback]

I think it looks awsome