Car customizations, custom decals, and weathering! | Century of Steam Customizations Pt. 2

You've seen customizations on locomotives - now see it in more depth, with a better UI, and how it applies to cars! Join Mark and Daniel on this fun ride.
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[@daniellewis1789]

Desperately hoping for "sloppy hand paint block letter" or "crudely stenciled" as font options!

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

Seconded! And don't forget "we didn't clean up the paint drips" for a font as well.

[@SuperAWaC]

Or "Peeling Vinyl" for the cash strapped museums out there

[@trevorhaddox6884]

Don't forget "spray paint"

[@ratze7723]

I can already see Hyce not equipping his cars with airbrakes to save money😂🤣

[@whatusernameis5295]

oh yeah airbrakes are never happening

[@Emerald-764]

Who needs airbrakes anyway? The museum I volunteer at does just fine without them on our 4% grade

[@Nundevwizer]

Safety is overrated anyway, and it’s expensive

[@TheInternationalHarvesterMan]

*Vacuum brakes have entered the chat*

[@patrickorr2256]

It's the es&d

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

""here we are, saying fine, we'll do it ourself." That single quote is probably the best summary of this entire project.

[@Tristan_S346]

Hope everyone enjoys! Lots of learning done on our part for getting these systems put together, but proud to be able to show off how far we’ve come :)

[@JonRabit]

can't wait to roll into the station with my train entirely covered in Rico decals

[@TwoPennyStudios]

3d Modeler: I sure am glad I don't have to worry about perfect UV mapping... Texture artist when they want to slap on random decals: Yeah....about that.

[@ashleytaylor896]

that opening clip is just some thing else entirely. my god that's one hell of a first impression

[@Lazarus7000]

The Superior Detritus Company box car really put me in mind of Robert A. Heinlein's humor for reasons I'm not able to rightly pin down at the moment, but I love it.

[@briangoodhue]

being able to share customizations on the Steam Workshop could be fun!

[@BigMeechEJ25]

You guys are doing fantastic work. This is what we need in the train sim community, true foamers working on a game. Please argue over which pinecones are the correct ones for the trees of that area, the stuff you showed off so far shows you care and its paying off!

[@YoinkusS]

Kinda hoping that a font option is just sloppily painted words. Would be perfect for switchers and what not.

[@daniellewis1789]

I have been wanting to buy and run other roads' broken crap and generally RGS my way through life since the first Hyce streams. This would be PERFECT.

[@sparkymck1620]

That F&CC car gave me childhood flashbacks of the old Montana Southern Boxcars ex F&CC in Nevada City Montana. Gorgeous, gorgeous car and decals

[@abyssminiaturestudios6103]

I legit will buy this just to plow snow. I hope a rotary is planned. Cheers looking forward to release.

[@radiation3041]

I think the drop down menus should also have a scroll option, so instead of clicking the menu and scrolling, I should be able to just hover over the menu and scroll

[@TarisSinclair]

There's an inherent problem of double scrollbars that I saw happen several times.. you try to scroll the inside container and when it reaches the end, it scrolls the parent container as well.. As a UX person, I always direct my people away from that.. try to look for other options if you can, or at least "freeze" the higher tier scrollbar in place while a dropdown is displayed.

[@TheBeeMan1994]

Remember, this game is still in very early dev stages. Im sure they will address the UI later

[@ww32]

@@TarisSinclairthank you, people forget how complicated good UX design is and you don’t hear a lot from UX designers

[@TarisSinclair]

@@ww32That is the truth. :) It's complicated to make things look simple. There's a lot of controls and information that need to be squeezed into the small side.. but I can see ways of making it happen. I'd be happy to help out as an external consultant, no charge. I'd just want to see CoS provide a better user experience than its competitors, that would be a reward in itself.

[@germansteamlocomotive]

cant wait to paint everything neon lime green

[@Editor_Ethan]

I grew up within 15-30 minuets of the Nevada State Railroad Museum. im so happy to hear Daniel had a hand in this game.

[@Dan_Gyros]

it may be a bit difficult from a UI standpoint, but having both a simple and advanced image placement menu, could allow for some cool customizations!

[@ColtonRMagby]

"A man who's name rhymes with Bluntington." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's hilarious. The sheer number of combinations regarding the locomotive and tender alone is insane, but adding in these cars turns that up to 11.

[@musiqtee]

Great! I have one giant wish that (nearly) none of the competing rail sims have - The ability to use any kind of physical controller! As a flight sim’er, I have plenty of stuff like the Honeycomb Bravo - basically a glorified multi-axis “joystick” using the standard protocol. Another option is for us users to build dedicated HW controllers using an Arduino or Pi pico. There are already libraries to make these appear as standard HID / joysticks, so the CoS game wouldn’t need extra stuff, except a menu to bind incoming HID or game controller inputs. Pleeeease…!?

[@ArticTheFox715]

I feel like I can make my Railroad Fully with details I could only wish to have from different Games, what a treat it will be.

[@Ferlius93]

When this entire project is finished with all the aspects of it polished and working and everything complete - you guys will need to get a monument built in your honor!

[@QuintonMurdock]

26:57 I kinda love that this is a model in joke. I’ve seen 588 in so many games and models.

[@lukemendel8197]

That ES&D Car will be EVERYWHERE. It probably wrecked onto a boat or something.

[@slanderedstone]

God the amount of customization you can do with this is insane! Its got me excited for the future of the game thats for sure!

[@Dan_Gyros]

Yall are truly going above and beyond with this, and it is very much appreciated

[@Powie1965]

Great video, super psyched to get this!

[@markmalewski]

The decal and livery customization is amazing! Nice work and look forward to seeing it in a final release / form. Looks great! ❤️❤️❤️

[@1TruNub]

Mark, I cannot wait to see what you bring to the table. I am so excited for this Game

[@UmoadoGaming]

Awesome work y’all! It all looks amazing! 23:21 this section of the vid is just lols

[@StefsEngineering]

Wonderfull as always, really looking forward to this one! And nice to see that you guys adjusted the window settings so you don't have that reflectivity/translucency bug that occurs with ue5 at accute angles to translucent objects (windows)

[@Shipwright1918]

Eye candy all around, and the sound coming in to the stop at the water plug gave me goosebumps.

[@genislebastard3491]

Yes, the pine cones are important. I agree.

[@BananenJaeger]

Since your talk about the steam Chest Simulation, I've been wondering if you guys have any plans to visualize the Internals and Steam Simulation. I really love to get all these details explained/shown and I believe something like a transparent "Glas Locomotive" or like the Warthunder X-Ray Overlay could help players to learn and understand not only how they work, but also why they behave the way they do (like the charged steampipe).

[@alastaircross4713]

Oh, I am going to have so much fun with this... basically I could "almost" recreate one of the Baldwin 10-24E's that got to New Zealand, but in 3ft gauge and with a shorter tender tank. Also, I am glad to see I am not disappointed - I was already expecting Mark's ES&D herald the moment I saw the title of this video. You love to see it!

[@WingsStrings]

Dan has included several shorter stack options which are useful in simulating the smaller export loading gauge. The shorter diamond and Baldwin Style 50 in Olive and Color will get you about 90% of the way towards that appearance of an NZR T class. (Ideally you'd want style 51, but I believe 50 is the closest to that from the current options)

[@captainjonna1034]

whaaaah....i just had to rewind and watch the opening snow ploughing scene like five times in row, that was epic...it looks so good.

[@Berserk_Loon]

I can't wait for this game to be available. So far it looks amazing!

[@EngineerDaylight]

Woah, SNOW PHYSICS! That is is some awesome stuff Mark. Jeez, I couldn't believe how powerful that interface is, imagine not having to even touch the locomotive texture maps. That's convenient!

[@Naviss]

Very cool stuff and nice features to make things our own.

[@brucethebatcat5084]

This will probably be one of the most in-depth and realistic railroading games to have ever been made, you guys are doing a great job. Can't wait to do something cursed with it!

[@FuelFire]

I don't need sleep, I need CoS dev vlogs.

[@joshmeister4449]

Love that an OR&L boxcar has been included, and while yes, one of our OR&L cars at HRS does have that logo on it, IIRC, the OR&L never actually used that logo on their boxcars, that was just something the "Early" HRS members did when the one boxcar was restored.

[@grimlockfoc117]

That plow is awesome!

[@Leo1C2MEXAS]

Love how much there is for customization of the cars and locomotives. Would be cool to see the amount of customization options when it comes to the diesels and other non steam locomotives next.

[@fRiX15]

Can't wait for this game to come out, I love steam train so much!

[@Texaskeykeeper]

The fact that there are some goodies relating to the Silverton railroads are exciting 😎

[@elitedangerousfan4610]

I cant wait for this game to come out

[@zuiderzee9141]

Literally salivating over here. We haven’t been this excited about *any* game in our adult life.

[@szutok6]

I can't wait for this amazing game

[@darkflame2601]

Gosh I know im gonna spend hours on this and I can’t wait😂

[@sockenbullegaming]

oh boy im so excited the customization seems GREAT but one thing i noticed is that the snow looks a bit off once the train has run through it

[@arrivedknight7632]

I HOPE THIS COMES OUT THIS YEAR!

[@Nareimooncatt]

Ok I now want to get this just to run unit trains of Lunoco cars. Simply beautiful.

[@MegaZsolti]

The decal feature is cool. Makes me want to put chevrons on the front and back of every piece of rolling stock...

[@katies6426]

Sweet mother of god, you legends…

[@oriontaylor]

Oh goody, I can have a narrow gauge Lake Shore & Michigan Southern!

[@thetoontrain6073]

For the GUI, I recommend being able to move the decals with your mouse and being able to adjust the increment. The size could possible be some sort of slider? Not really sure but it would be better

[@IffathZiyard]

Dovetail games won't do a fraction of the work these devs do with passion

[@The-Signal-Man]

Will there be a feature to standardize your railroad (such as adding particular brakes or couplings) without having to do it on every car and locomotive?

[@MickelyMC]

More to follow on that front (eventually), you may have noticed the "presets" tab in the UI

[@QuintonMurdock]

31:07 My fictional railroad is in a liminal spot that is both Oregon and Colorado. I feel like I could make this more clear by doing stuff with trees

[@WingsStrings]

Ponderosa pines are present in both Oregon and Colorado, as well as the actual in-between places in the middle like Idaho and northern Utah. It is a very versatile and widespread species which was one of our incentives to model them.

[@TheSecretman82]

Got a Question: Seeing all of these Details that we can set, does In-Game time freeze when we customize?

[@gamingdoggo66]

As mark said in one live stream “they were blue!”

[@ferky123]

For putting an image on the side of the lantern there should be a fit to side option or an option to fit to height and move left and right to capture your favorite part.

[@WingsStrings]

Baba Booey

[@daylightrain]

🤸‍♂ 🦽🏌‍♂

[@absentchronicler9063]

it would be nice if the decal customisation were sliders and number input as well

[@Tristan_S346]

For scaling? That’s a good idea I’ll see what I can do for that 👍🏻

[@absentchronicler9063]

@@Tristan_S346 scaling and positioning i feel like sliders would work best, but please dont remove number input if yall plan to use sliders, thank you for making such a great game

[@jacobramsey7624]

Another great video, as always!! I'm definitely looking forward to this game more and more with each new video. Question. What locomotive is in the end credits of the century of steam video? It looks like a 4-4-0. I think that's a pretty cool looking locomotive that I want to create once I have the game.

[@I-Like-Trains-2010]

I can already see myself spending hours in game just to find the perfect styles for my engine

[@sharkisntlive]

Game is coming along nicely! Nice work! Any chance we will be seeing workshop support for decals and / or aesthetic components?

[@12times12_]

there definitely needs to be some kind of preview when you're mouse is hovering over an option. For those who don't know what an option will look like, it would be really necessary to help find styles people want.

[@polarvortex6496]

This all looks great - but as cool as the historically accurate livery is, I do wonder if there’s merit in giving us a color picker option in addition to the historical colors.

[@Mereel9212]

Just WoW. Greetings from germany :D

[@ProtonTheProtogen]

Yay, I can bring the SUFFER R.R. to life now!

[@brillbusbootcamp2320]

Making the world feel alive… YES. THIS. EXACTLY. This is why I dropped that other game that didn’t deserve the expertise you guys are now putting into CoS. 400 in-game hours of making, dare I say, the best possible scenery, and the world still felt like a purposeless, empty, uncanny valley. You’ve already done so much better with the animals, the boats, the buildings, and best of all, the customization!

[@buckduane1991]

I would love to see a map based on the Black Hills of South Dakota… ponderosa pine, meadows, lots of granite outshoots and razorbacks… maybe even a Mount Rushevenmore since you know Hyce will be doing that…

[@elaineturnipseed198]

big snow!

[@QuintonMurdock]

Hell yeah. The combination car has 364 as its number

[@Polaris5664]

Im more of a vintage electric and diesel fan but this game might force me to actually try and learn steam train controls. When you make the simplified UI it might be nice to be able to enable advanced mode for the extra customization power if need be.

[@drsemiauto4215]

Steam Workshop support for sharing decal sets/car skins maybe?

[@jadegreen438]

One of the questions I had is on the operation side of driving a locomotive. will you be able to move freely around the cab like in Railways online or derailed valley? I think that be a really fun experience thank you and I'm really excited For this game 🚂❤

[@kam833]

"one of the levels we are working on" WHAT DO YOU MEAN "ONE OF"

[@MachRacer4]

Please tell me the ES&DT skin for the boxcar can be selected in game when it releases.

[@Ben31337l]

I was kinda hoping for a dark blue as a colour option as that's one of the primary colours my railroad actually uses...

[@SmackyTheB3AR]

This "Mark" character sounds a lot like Hyce... This is all very suspicious. On a more serious note, will there be an option to change the setup/type/location of the brake wheels on boxcars? Such as having the brake wheel on the end instead of more vertical (apologies if this is not accurate for the prototype), or even the option to change the type of brake wheel itself?

[@C.I...]

Will the customisation elements be integrated as unlocks in a chronological career mode?

[@Stooltoad5017]

I assume MAN CO is a different company from Mann Co? Lol. I quite like the fake railroad logos on these. The pink backdrop on the SNPARCINC box car hurts though. You guys really did give Mark too much power. Will we get an upside down 2 as a 5 at some point (I’ve heard of an example of Porter doing that, although that may or may not be real)?

[@dark_one1337]

do we get real deep snow? like window high or roof line height? and are ye working on the snow flow physics on the plow? I'm so pumped for this game and it's progress

[@takemasu45]

Guys I'd love to know if running an engine through snow without a plow will still work? And if so, how many times will I catastrophically derail? Cheers

[@whatusernameis5295]

you're gonna need to add an automatic decal sync lol

[@jonathanpendergraft9902]

At the start, i thought you were showing that the amount of snow in front of the loco created resistance, causing it to slow to a stop. Is that going to be a thing? Say, it snows for awhile and it builds up, can there be too much snow to push?

[@CreeperBroCMJ]

Don’t know if it’s been announced, but are rotary snow plows going to be added?

[@andrewframe8046]

Hang on..... are you now standing on that pile of snow you created with the snowplow? Is it THAT dynamic?

[@dinochanell42]

Please make ES&D car a game preset decall option

[@wyatthahn6913]

If theres not an ES&D Explody Boi's by default im sure someone will do it themselves

[@thatonecaledonian812]

Will changes, specifically coal or oil firing changes, cost money?

[@ThePTBRULES]

Can you set it up where we can use Arrow keys to cycle through any menu so that i don't have to click option by option to see different options.

[@TrainsAreReallyCool]

Please tell me you'll do a video about the Diesels and that you'll be able to make custom paint schemes for them.

[@MiddletownBranchProd.]

So, here’s my question about the game; will there be a sandbox version, similar to Railroader? I like to begin with sandbox modes to get a feel for the game.

[@A_person473]

Are we aloud to put a hay stack on our mainline?

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

Hey. I'm a little worried about computing power requirements..

[@jasonkebic741]

Curious will this be pregenerated track or will we lay it ourselves. An Hyce will you be doing alpha and beta testing and posting some of the stuff as teasers, I realize streaming may not work when looking for errors/bugs, but edited videos that show some of the results could be fun as well?

[@brandonsmith7159]

Will there be the streamlined 0-4-0ST built by Vulcan Iron Works? I don't know any more about it other than it exists.