GRAPHIC: Skanky Railways

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:01

Welcome to Skanky Railways!!

This mod is for all those people who think the railways dont look pretty enough. While theres not too much i can do about the railways snaking everywhere and generally looking messy, ive attempted to make them at least not as ugly...

The result: Skanky's BlueRail Mod!!
Never have railways been this blue

Enjoy, comments, complaints, (constructive) criticism, all appreciated...

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:04

And now announcing: Skanky's RedRail Mod!!
Never have railways been this red

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:05

The BlueRails Mod can be downloaded

from Here

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:06

The RedRails Mod can be downloaded

from Here

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:07

So what does the future hold for Skanky Railways??

I have a plan for another mod, making all the railway tiles similar to those used in Civ 2. Every railway tile is straight, and all cross in the center. I might even do some requests, if anyone at all is interested in this... ??

EDIT: Broken link removed.

Skanky Burns · November 26, 2001, 19:07

Anyone?!?

Plumbean · December 1, 2001, 14:02

Im glad your changing the railways but i like the idea about civ 2 style best

Skanky Burns · December 2, 2001, 04:04

I did those colored railways first because they were the easiest to do. However, since your interested, ill make the civ2 style railways.

Plumbean · December 2, 2001, 16:21

I look forward to your work ln the railways do you know any one who is editing the terrian keep up the good work

star mouse · December 2, 2001, 18:23

The red railway mod looks very much like blood vessels.

Now all we need is a mod where the mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion looks like the continent's bleeding....

Admiral PJ · December 2, 2001, 20:01

How about British Railways, they use transparent rails as they are always broken down and never maintained

Seriously though, It would be good if someone could make a brush path paintshop psd file (the curved path system) so that to make a new railway style you just Strike all the curved paths with the desired colour thickness brush and hey presto, all the rails are made in a few seconds.

ElitePersian · December 4, 2001, 07:49

i would definately like to see you make the civ2 style railways, civ3's are so messy.

BorgFury · December 6, 2001, 07:00

How about some Skanky Green ones, I'd do it myself, but I'm too lazy.

ElitePersian · December 6, 2001, 07:19

hey so are you gonna do the civ2 style railways you were talking about? im sure ppl would love that. the current style looks so ugly IMO.

Plutarck · December 6, 2001, 08:47

The work you've done really looks...um...Skankily cool

It's very nice looking, hehe.

Skanky Burns · December 6, 2001, 20:38

Update:
Thanks for the comments everyone!

Im still doing the Civ 2 style railways, they will take some time however, as i need to edit around 148 tiles

but its slowly getting there.

A Skanky GreenRail Mod, hmmm?? Alrighty, thats added to the list too

Jer8m8 · December 7, 2001, 22:18

What about black with yellow lines that stall units? Okay, not funny, but you could make the black with lines, right?

Plumbean · December 9, 2001, 13:16

thanks for the update cant wait to see the railways when your done

Plumbean · December 9, 2001, 13:19

Skanky can you make it so we can download it to the game and overwrite are old railway files or is it in a mod I was just wondering

I would love to play the game with your files on all mods.

Skanky Burns · December 9, 2001, 19:51

My graphics mod and all the graphics mods around replace files in the civ3/Art/Terrain directory. This means that any scenario or save you use, it will still play with the modified graphics.

Skanky Burns · December 9, 2001, 19:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Jer8m8
What about black with yellow lines that stall units? Okay, not funny, but you could make the black with lines, right?

Making black railways: Yes
Making black railways with yellow lines: NO

Sorry, editing it on that level is just way too hard. Even the cut-n-paste civ2 style rails are taking forever to do, and this would be an order of magnitude harder.

Ill try making an all-black one, just to see what it looks like anyway.

darthx86 · December 10, 2001, 00:27

The promise of your railroad mod has me checking this forum every day... The reminiscent Civ 2 tracks have piqued my interest!

Khab · December 10, 2001, 16:15

I'll be interested in those modified railways as well... the standard ones were a bit of a let-down. They look way too much like roads and not enough like railroads...

Skanky Burns · December 10, 2001, 22:32

And now announcing: Skanky's GreenRail Mod!!
Never have railways been this green

Skanky Burns · December 10, 2001, 22:39

And now announcing: Skanky's LimeGreenRail Mod!!
Never have railways been this lime

I couldnt decide which looked better, the dark green or this light one, so i put both up. Try them today

Skanky Burns · December 10, 2001, 23:11

Any comments on how this is turning out would be appreciated

Khab · December 10, 2001, 23:13

Lime?

....

*gag*

Khab · December 10, 2001, 23:15

Wow! While I was typing, the good stuff was posted!

Looks pretty good, except that the rails kinda seem to be 'hovering' above ground somehow... dunno why.
They're REALLY straight... maybe a little bit of swing in 'em will do it?

Padma · December 11, 2001, 14:04

Civ 2 style mod is looking good!

Eagerly awaiting the final version!

Zanzin · December 11, 2001, 21:24

Good work on all the mods there shanky!

But I think I'm going to stick with the civ3 rails for the moment - the straight civ2 type rails just don't seem to "fit", know what I mean? They seem to hover, like Khab said. Good work all the same