Clinchfield Reimagined

  • by TheShotte
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Description

I present to you Clinchfield Reimagined. A texture mod for the Clinchfield route for Train Sim World 2. My primary objective was to get rid of some of the repetitive patterns in the textures, and since I was going to do as much, I decided to adjust the tone of said textures to bring together the terrain, and make all it's features feel a bit more cohesive. I feel as if now I've finally managed to get a good balance of color between all the terrain textures, and they truly work together well with the colors of the foliage, which in turn makes foliage distance culling almost invisible. In any case, with my mod, everything should be a little bit easier on the eyes, whilst maintaining the original artistic vision of DTG and realistically depicting Eklhorn City, KY to Dante, VA.

I initially created this with no intention of releasing it to the public, however I am actually quite pleased with how it makes the route look and thought that if I do, so will others. I feel like I made it look as good as I can. If you have any suggestions on changing any features, please feel free to let me know.

If you like my work, and would like to support future modding endeavors, please consider a donation, anything is appreciated.

Tags: clinchfield north-america reskin texture

Requirements

Train Sim World 2: Clinchfield Railroad: Elkhorn - Dante Route Add-On

Installation Instructions

Place the file 'TS2Prototype-Clinchfield-Reimagined.pak' into '(GAME_LOCATION)\WindowsNoEditor\TS2Prototype\Content\DLC'

  • (GAME_LOCATION) being the game directory ex. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Train Sim World 2'

Make sure you delete any prior versions of the mod!

Additional Comments

Update:

v 1.3.1
Rush Hour / Epic Games Store (UE4 4.26) Compatibility

v 1.3
Further tweaked a whole bunch of textures, many times over
Completely revamped Dante Chapel.
-- original model has been edited by me, both to add a bit of detail and to further optimize UV maps
-- created entirely new texture maps, along with entirely new materials which are fully integrated into TSW's weather system

v 1.2
Version uploaded to rail-sim.de; pretty much the same thing as 1.1 with a few extra texture tweaks

v 1.1
Changed Wheat Grass texture to portray a version of the grass that's not mature/dried out
Further tweaked the Ballast texture and height map to remove some very small patterns and make the ballast differentiate between one another a bit better with the height map
Adjusted Grass texture and mask as it was causing a washed-out effect on fade between 2 textures on terrain
Corrected Ballast to match by bridges and tunnels
Minor tweaks to other textures

v 1.0
Replaced 2 ground textures along with their respective Diffuse, Specular, Mask (where applicable) and Normal maps.
Replaced ballast Diffuse and Specular maps with texture/map created by me, also replaced terrain ballast normal map with higher resolution version used with track
Reworked another 7 textures (Diffuse and Specular maps) to better suit the area.

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About this mod

Created
21 Apr 2021
Updated
5 Sept 2021
Game
Train Sim World
Type of content
Patch
Train Sim World Version
Train Sim World 2: Steam version (UE4 4.26)