Thursday 17 September 2015

Sparkling EWS Sea Urchins

Fastline Simulation - ZCA Sea Urchin ex VDA [EWS]: A freshly repainted ZCA Sea Urchin in EWS livery. This wagon started out as a VDA van built as a part of lot 3855 which can be seen by the shorter brake handle. At the time of conversion to an open box wagon it gained a body with flush end braces.

Fastline Simulation - ZCA Sea Urchin ex VDA [EWS]: A freshly repainted ZCA Sea Urchin in EWS livery. This wagon started out as a VDA van built as a part of lot 3908 which were given longer brake handles than the other lots. At the time of conversion to an open box wagon it gained a body with raised end braces.
A few days ago we announced our range of future expansions which we are developing for distribution via Marketplace. Naturally we didn't start working on the expansions at the time of the announcement but have had to wait until everything was in place before we could share anything.

We're starting off the sharing today with some screenshots taken by the works photographer of some freshly repainted EWS liveried ZCA Sea Urchins. Those of you who have been following our products for a while will know that we had already produced a pack of engineers 'Dutch' liveried Sea Urchins converted from VDA vans and this expansion is a development from it.

We have updated the materials used throughout the models with new shaders along with some extensive reworking of the textures and ambient occlusion maps. In addition to this this we have automated some features of the wagons to reduce clutter in the asset list, as requested in the spring survey, by randomly switching between the two different body types as wagons are placed. The wagons now also feature a variety of different load remnants which appear at random during placement.

The wagons have also been equipped with some other new features but they can wait for when we show you the pictures!

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