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#alice #animation #mmd #train #video #azuretown
Published: 2015-02-10 00:23:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 1707; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 7
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As some of you might have guessed, from my screen name, I like trains. In fact, I've liked trains ever since I was a kid and even now, sometimes I would just hang out on an overpass about a mile from my home to watch the trains at a marshalling yard where Union Pacific trains do 'their stuff'. Those locomotives are enormous and the raw power that they possess is simply awe inspiring.Anyway, we are very lucky as MMDers to be graced by some of the most beautiful Japanese train models I've seen anywhere. So I've been quietly collecting quite a few. But there's not much of a chance to use them so I put this short video clip together to let some of them strut their stuff. Just watching this video playback, I'm thinking how lucky we all are to have access to all these beautiful models and other resources all for free.
MMD is quite capable of almost cinematic results when used carefully with some of the superb MME effects. There are some issues, if you really want to be nick-picky, but for what it can do, it certain does do it very well. As for the animation in this sequence, it was actually probably the easiest sequence I've done in awhile, but it does job just fine. Alice looks alive and the trains move in an authentic manner, and with a bit of lighting and physics tweaks it's more than sufficient to create a certain level of realism. I actually wanted to add more 'stuff', but unfortunately, my poor laptop could only handle so much ...
CREDITS
Alice: Kakomiki
TRAINS
50 ton electric freight loco and 10 ton wagons: mato.sus34
Kintetsu 22600: gb_tw
H3900: SeasideExp
SCENERY
Azure Town: Skyblue
Skydome: seasalt
Dummy bones: default
MME
dAdultShaderNEvo
o_Overay_soft
o_psSepia
Full Simple Soft Shadows
SOFTWARE
MMD 9.26
PMD 0.1.3.9
Photoshop 7
MUSIC
kimi ni todoke - synthesia
MOTION, CAMERA and LIGHTING
All custom made
Video: youtu.be/Cluo-nA-T_U
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Comments: 10
Too bad the loco doesn't have an interior. I went against my own ways and got the Railworks 2015 simulator only for the feeling of sitting in the driver seat of a UP beast.
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I spent way too many (real) hours behind the controls of locos on Microsoft's Train Simulator ... but that's really primitive by today's standards.
Just love these trainsims, but just don't have time for them these days.Β
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A little known fact: I live is near the train tracks ever since when I was a child and still do. So every time I hear the train horn or when it goes by I'll watch it from the front window. I thought it was cool.
That's what I first thought of when I looked at this. ^w^
And what a nice short demonstration.
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Well, I'm not sure that I would actually want to live by the tracks. Big locos tend to shake the houses in addition to all the noise that they make.
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I live in a mobile home near some train tracks. Β You get used to the occasional noise and vibrations. Β It doesn't shake that much. Β One time we had an earthquake and I didn't even notice it because I thought it was just a train passing by
Nice video. Β That stage is enormous.Β
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I live in California, so I do know when the earth is moving. As for trains near homes, sound walls/barriers seem to do a dang good job of muting the noise and you're right, unless the train is really heavy and travelling through at really high speeds, it won't shake the ground much.
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Yeah. That's the downfall.
But living in the same area for too long (at around 5-10 yrs.) and nothing valuable breaks or even the house shakes, we're good. (Not sure about my neighbors though 
And also not sure about those people who live near subways. I'm not a city person so idrk.
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