Depressed

My HSC results came out today, and even though I still haven't checked my results, I am very depressed about it. Progress had stalled for a few days now, since I was at Barrington Tops for 3 days, even though I took my laptop with me, I couldn't pull myself together. Hope I can make some progress today, I could only hope......

Getting very frustrated

I am getting very frustrated, for 3 days, I got absolutely nowhere with this rack system. A colleague of mine from Singapore has made a new rack for me, and it has significantly reduced the amount of textures by using transparencies. The first photo shows the rack. However, when I bend it using Object Bender to use it for curves, it is still too texturally heavy, and even if I reduce each segment down to 1 metre, it is still ridiculously slow. The second photo shows a curved rack with length of 5 metres, and this has taken Object Viewer about 2 minutes to load.So I'm back to square 1, and decided that it might be better for me to do signals first. As they always say, "The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray, and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy". My plan to create a good looking rack and pinion railway has gone nowhere but down the drain. I am very depressed now :'( .

good news and bad news

Good news, I made a relatively good looking signal that looks more or less like the real signal.
Bad news, the rack I made has to be scrapped, because it is too texturally heavy, meaning that nobody, literally nobody, can play the simulation without lag. Sorry people, I know the rack looks so nice and real, I have to abandon it :(

New rack railway

This is what I've done for a whole day, after about 6000 lines of coding, and 10 teeth per metre, I have finally finished racks along straight sections of the railway, more to come, as I bend objects for curves......Here are two photos. The first one just shows the rails, while the second one shows the rack rail in a tunnel, along with a metre marker I made a couple of days ago.

Work on trying to replicate photos

There are two photos, and the degree of realism is shown, and yes, even though everything looks nice, it is still not finished. The bottom one is taken by Maikha Ly, I do not claim any form of ownership of the second photo, and I sincerely appreciate his effort and permission for me to use his photos.