[Plugin] Eneroth Railroad System (v 0.1.21)

Krisidious

Very impressive Julia... Very.

Rich O Brien

@Julia

You know you have access to plugins.sketchucatio.com ?

eneroth3

Videos showing how tracks and trains are added:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEntX7GwW4

eneroth3

@rich o brien said:

@Julia

You know you have access to plugins.sketchucatio.com ?

At the moment I'm busy fighting against phpBB but I might look into it later (for instance I just had to figure out myself that youtube videos must use the http protocol, not https as the link I copied from the address bar used).

Rich O Brien

Take your time...

I'll look after the upload to your PluginStore account.

pilou

Incredible!
I am fan of the rainbow one! !

Aerilius

Great to see it finished! I can't wait to build our railroad with it.
We have a Märklin H0. If we had a bigger one, we could lay rails from the kitchen outside to the terrace and transport dishes, drinks and food. So there's something to plan

eneroth3

@aerilius said:

Great to see it finished!

I wouldn't exactly call it finished but at least it's finished enough for a thread:)

I hope I can see the model when it's done!

CadFather

Goodness...!

olishea

I don't think I'll ever need this plugin, but all I can say is wow! Looks like fun!

Eneroth: I believe I've seen your plugins before? Did you make a terrain eroder or something along those lines?

pilou

Yep!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnCNiKRCt-U

Anton_S

Professionally done!

Works like a charm

And a suggestion, are you planning to add a reset button?
Some sounds would be awesome as well

alexandre sk

Fantastic plugin AND model. I miss those ICE from Germany, 300km/h without a bump.

Ohh and thx for your Texture Positioning plug-in I use a lot.

pbacot

Genious!

Krisidious

She's got a few Oli...

http://eneroth.port0.org

Pixero

Fantastiskt!

I'm not sure how often I will be able to use this for work but it's an amazing plugin.
Does it work on terrain as well?
Have you thought of doing a road and cars version?

eneroth3

@anton_s said:

Professionally done!

Works like a charm

And a suggestion, are you planning to add a reset button?
Some sounds would be awesome as well

i haven't really thought about a reset button. In Sketchyphysics I think the whole animation runs inside a tool and that Sketchup.abort_operation runs to move everything back when the user stops the animation. In my plugin the animation doesn't run inside an active tool since you need several tools so set switches, connect/disconnect couplings etc.

I've though about sounds but then I need to be able to play the same sound at different speeds to match the speed of the train. Also I would need lots and lots of sounds.

@olishea said:

I don't think I'll ever need this plugin, but all I can say is wow! Looks like fun!

Eneroth: I believe I've seen your plugins before? Did you make a terrain eroder or something along those lines?

Yup ,that's mine. You can see all my plugins here:

http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/user/5736/store

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pauthor=eneroth3

@pixero said:

Fantastiskt!

I'm not sure how often I will be able to use this for work but it's an amazing plugin.
Does it work on terrain as well?
Have you thought of doing a road and cars version?

It should work on terrain but you might need to alter the terrain after adding the tracks so there's no gap under them. you can also add a new track type that has more ballast under it to prevent this gap. The same thing can be done with roads, create a road as a track type and initialize a car as rolling stock.

Under Plugins > Railroad > Documentation it's written how you make custom track types and rolling stocks. saving a rolling stock to the library however isn't very stable at the moment (some observers seem to get upset when I've tried in SU 2013). After saving a rolling stock to the rolling stock library it's recommended to restart Sketchup. Otherwise you can just initialize one without adding to the library.

rv1974

Without spaghetti western style bandits in library the plugin is rather pointless.
How am I supposed to robber the train?
bang-bang

Krisidious

@rv1974 said:

Without spaghetti western style bandits in library the plugin is rather pointless.
How am I supposed to robber the train?
bang-bang

eneroth3

@rv1974 said:

Without spaghetti western style bandits in library the plugin is rather pointless.
How am I supposed to robber the train?
bang-bang

Make a 2d face me component of a person pointing a gun and follow the train with the camera. Then you can be inside the train and have a person standing at the side of the track pointing the gun at you when driving by