BR 245 first rendering try
Here I proudly present the first rendering of my BR 245 model 🙂 It has a lot of mistakes in the painting, but I wanted to try. Since the last update I added the frontal steps and corrected the lower area of the sidewalls. Unfortunately, due to reduced experience, I started playing with UV unwrapping
BR 245 is taking shape
I’m still working on getting the model some how acceptable and I have to advise that the best steps forward have been taken after watching the Blender GURU tutorial on how to model a plane. I would suggest everyone to have a look at it 🙂 Anyway, I tried to do get the best I
BR 187 or BR 245…
So, it has been a while since I started my modelling activities… and I should say the results do not look promising 🙂 The BR 187 with its fiberglass front is quite hard to model for a newbie. All the curvature are really hard to get. [singlepic id=9 w= h= float=center] I’d rather not display
TRAXX BR 187 for Trainz PTP2
Hello folks, after a short experience with software programming I decided to try something different… 3D modelling! Il like railways and recently discovered the Trainz software. It is a interesting that allows you to drive a train like a real driver. I also found the ProTrain Perfect 2, which is the german version of Trainz,
Download and parse data to be displayed
In version 1.0 of PocketGTT all information are obtained from internet. The online site of GTT is available under multiple addresses: Turin city website 5T website 5T mobile version For a desktop usage I recommend the 5T website, but it has some javascript additional function that made it difficult to decode the information written on
Important links for starters
Before going into detail of the steps for creating a program, may be it is useful to list some resources available online that I used to learn: Qt Project is for sure the starting point 😉 But Qt is based on C++, and I was out of knowledge of it. In internet it is well known
PocketGTT project start-up
You know, as soon as you come up with a new goal, a lot of ideas collect in your mind, and the best thing would be collect them and try to put them in order 🙂 and of course that is not what I did! Just while you are doing you everyday life activities, a
PocketGTT genesis
During Christmas 2011 holidays I got an idea! It could have been useful to make the good service provided by GTT easily available on mobile phones. If you visit GTT’s website, you could get a lot of realtime information about the public transport in Turin. Public transport in Turin are really well spreaded, and city’s
Welcome!!!
Welcome to Nicolinux! This is my first blog, and I’ve decided to open it to talk a little bit about my experience with software development. I’m not a professional developer, but I started for fun. I bought a Nokia N900 and I’m really happy with this phone. While looking around the net I discovered that