Note: This is a thread intended to be used as reference by other people who want to make buses for OMSI, hence it is locked. More informal discussion and updates will be found here: [OMSI 2] Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer II
I thought that it would perhaps be beneficial to start a thread showing my progress with this project... I've been live-streaming a lot of my progress on my Twitch Channel, but I haven't streamed everything and the past broadcasts disappear after a while, so I thought it would be a good idea to post my progress in many ways as a reference to those wanting to make their own buses, detailing how I'm going about making the bus and how I solve problems that I come across.
As such, I'm going to start this thread simply by outlining the project's intended outcome as it stands:
My aim with this project is to end up with one of these in Omsi, finished to a similar quality to existing European content, and not released unfinished or poor quality like much of the RHD content so far. The project started simply to build a single bus, but with research I have found that, like every bus type, no two are the same...
There are 5 lengths of Darts, categorised into 3 groups: 8.8 metre Mini Pointer Dart (MPD); 9.3, 10.1 & 10.7 metre Super Low Floor (SLF); and 11.4 metre Super Pointer Dart (SPD). These were produced from 1997 until 2001 by Dennis to one specification and then by Transbus (a merger between Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton) to another specification from 2001 until 2007. To thoroughly represent the darts, I'm going to produce 8 variants: the MPD, the Single Door SLF (10.7m), the Dual Door SLF (10.1m) and the SPD all in both Dennis and Transbus varieties. I'm going to try and make them as generic as possible, but as my local company is Stagecoach, there will likely be a slight bias towards Stagecoach specifications as these are what I am familiar with. I will be producing scripts and models for LED, Flipdot and Rollband displays, but as yet I'm not sure how I want to go about implementing these.
As with any Omsi project, accuracy of the final product very much depends on the reference material that the maker has available to them, so if there are any photos you have of normally unphotographed parts of Darts, specification sheets or other reference items, these would be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR: I'm making a bus for Omsi.
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Hello... I thought that it would perhaps be beneficial to start a thread showing my progress with this project... I've been live-streaming a lot of my progress on my Twitch Channel, but I haven't streamed everything and the past broadcasts disappear after a while, so I thought it would be a good idea to post my progress in many ways as a reference to those wanting to make their own buses, detailing how I'm going about making the bus and how I solve problems that I come across.
As such, I'm going to start this thread simply by outlining the project's intended outcome as it stands:
My aim with this project is to end up with one of these in Omsi, finished to a similar quality to existing European content, and not released unfinished or poor quality like much of the RHD content so far. The project started simply to build a single bus, but with research I have found that, like every bus type, no two are the same...
There are 5 lengths of Darts, categorised into 3 groups: 8.8 metre Mini Pointer Dart (MPD); 9.3, 10.1 & 10.7 metre Super Low Floor (SLF); and 11.4 metre Super Pointer Dart (SPD). These were produced from 1997 until 2001 by Dennis to one specification and then by Transbus (a merger between Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton) to another specification from 2001 until 2007. To thoroughly represent the darts, I'm going to produce 8 variants: the MPD, the Single Door SLF (10.7m), the Dual Door SLF (10.1m) and the SPD all in both Dennis and Transbus varieties. I'm going to try and make them as generic as possible, but as my local company is Stagecoach, there will likely be a slight bias towards Stagecoach specifications as these are what I am familiar with. I will be producing scripts and models for LED, Flipdot and Rollband displays, but as yet I'm not sure how I want to go about implementing these.
As with any Omsi project, accuracy of the final product very much depends on the reference material that the maker has available to them, so if there are any photos you have of normally unphotographed parts of Darts, specification sheets or other reference items, these would be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR: I'm making a bus for Omsi.
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