Welcome to the Virtual Garden Railway, over the next days, weeks, months and more like years I aim to build a 3D Rendered model of a garden railway. I'll post work in progress pictures and later animated sequences of the railway and it's associated garden. The first thing I have to do is research a layout plan then I can fit a garden around it. This is a little backwards as normally you start with a garden then fit the railway to it but the one luxury you do have in the virtual world is no limitations. Need more space, just add some, no planning permission needed or neighbours to placate. Hills flattened or built, about 10 minutes work. Costs are purely in time so no saving up for that loco you've always wanted just build one although that's going to take a lot more 10 minutes! More like 10 days for a farely basic one but even that's a lot faster than scratch building a real working model loco.
The biggest problem I can see is computer power, as the model gets bigger so does the computer resources required which I don't have a lot of so I going to have to use every memory saving trick I can think of.
Anyway enough waffle I need to get designing.
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