Subscribe to download
Realistic Line - Mountain Meadow

DO NOT LOAD THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO STRESS TEST YOUR PC. If you decide to even try, MINIMIZE YOUR GRAPHICS SETTINGS BEFORE HAND. You load this layout AT YOUR OWN RISK!

It takes 4+ minutes to load in on my PC and I have a GTX 2080 32GB RAM and a 3900X (and ~80GB of pagefile to my SSD too evidently!). Anyone have 128GB RAM?

I get 1 FPS on load in for 2 minutes and then I can get up to 10+ FPS. Note the video averages 10 FPS but starts 20ish, I left FPS top right as a warning!

Finally, if you're panicking after load in just hit Escape and only the menu is rendered.

--------------------

So this is an example of what NOT to do with the Realistic Line high poly assets. "But Seraph," you say, "why did you make this then?" Because this was named 'Realistic Test' for the longest time. I just HAD to keep going back to add in to add another layer since I hadn't used that one model yet... mistakes were made. This is being released as a CAUTIONARY TALE.

All models were free and are under non-commercial license.

The UP 6930 has been resurrected from its graveyard in the Illinois Railroad Museum just for this purpose - she could look better but it's nice to give her some more rail time!

The train isn't moving... just trust me you don't want it to be moving on load in.

The ballast is awful, my apologies. I'm going to be trying to make a version that looks better and is easier for public use soon.

Terrain was generated in InstantTerra under a trial license and processed through Blender. A little sculpting had to be done for the tunnel entrances and the water. I might post a guide on how to do this if people are interested, but warning must be made as this version was 1 million faces on its own, though you can definitely make a lower resolution version.

Finally, if you're wondering why I thought the 'black wall' was okay for realistic tunnel entrances, because it's so dark in there compared to outside unless it's night time this is the correct effect - maybe it should be tilted but that would depend on sun position, so this will have to do.