Suggestion

[Lucianus87]

Hi! I'm a train fan, so I really appreciate your work in this mod. However (as you certainly know) you can achieve a better result adding mobile frame to the locomotive, with steering wheels and maybe pistons. It could made a good difference with other rail mods like Yuoki's. Good job anyway!

[Danielv123]

I am unsure what you mean with a mobile frame and pistons.

If you talk about animating the side things attached to the wheels, I don't think that is possible due to the nature of factorios sprite based textures :(

Currently I have to render one picture of the frame for each of the 256 rotations. If it was to include animation states for all those as well, that would be at least 1024 pictures or ~200 mb. Also, factorio doesn't support animated locos.

What I am planning to add is a tender wagon, and Odin from the IRC is going to add proper steamer stuff, like steam and consuming water.

I could possibly work on adding another loco if you have any unique looking favorites.

I myself know just about nothing about trains but they look cool :)

[SeraphimlabsLLC]

It would look nicer if the piston rods and couplings were actually animated, but given the way Factorio does animations it would be extremely difficult to actually do so.

My development version that has the steam engine internals in it actually rides on a pair of diesel trucks that have been scaled down to near invisibility, that way it just sort of floats along the track. There's still quite a few issues with alignment of the models to the functions, I was playing with this last time I did any work on the engine side of things.