Orient Express world collaboration

"Jessabeans;c-17355291" wrote:
I'm interested in the project for sure. I really enjoyed reading about the inspiration train!

What scope of playable world at each destination are you considering? I've got a several french style buildings I made when I was editing monte vista into a french city. I'm sure with sight lines they could be arranged to look like the train was leaving the city for story telling, but I haven't built enough for a full fledged playable world. If you are thinking just a street or two on either/one side and some landscaping then I think I would be able to help with that.

I also don't have any London style buildings myself. I did some research and planning for london flats for a historical story a while back. I'm sure I could help with some of those depending on the timeframe of the project.

I don't have any venetian style lots built either, but I think it would be a fun project to build some especially with the store gondola and venetian build set. I started Venice in CAW, this is a really early version (it was created last night after reading this) so keep that in mind. I have the canals roughly laid out (they look a little messy around the edges still, but you should be able to get the idea), and only lots for the train approaching venice in the world. If you want to take a peek and see if it's what you had in mind I could work on it as time allows. I have the CAW files here if anyone would like them. Venice Alpha version.

Spoiler

This is the view from the Engine lot approaching Venice. It's an estimation of where the train would approach from looking at a map. I promise the first thing I will do when I go back into caw is fix the wobbly tracks.

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Canals viewed in CAW

@HollownessDevour might be interested in this, she's made some really beautiful Venetian style buildings.

O dear I totally missed your post @Jessabeans . Fantastic you’re keen on creating a world for this project and offer some of your your builds. Yes, I was thinking enough streets at each station to get a flavour for the three cities - mix of residential and community lots. I would like to include a few functional tourist landmarks at each destination as well and think the community can have great fun creating these and other lots needed. I know I would lol. So basically if you create world, we’ll create the lots for inclusion with the upload.

The train from London to Paris crosses the channel tunnel so it would be nice to incorporate that aspect into the world as well. Your screenshot of it going over the water looks so cool. I had drafted a rough sketch of the world but a seasoned world builder would have more creative vision. I am definitely going to check your WIP out tonight and am very curious how the world tracks would line up with the lot tracks. Will they show through the train lots when placed? If so, hopefully they match the scale of our trains.

I’m so excited we’re going to do the world as well. I’ll circle back with the landmarks I think will be good to include so we can figure out lot sizes. Would be great to get input on the list of community lots that should be included for a nicely playable world. Hope this isn’t sounding like too much of a challenge so far ?