Thank you for enjoying this evening's shenanigangs, brought to you by Deinfruehstueck for the 3D model and Foobian for the implementation of the BR 111! And now... story time with Foobian:
Starting out August 20th 2022 with me reaching out to Deinfruehstueck after being intrugied by his 3D model of the BR 111, I began work on a mod for the BR 112, swapping it out with that very 3D model. The intend from the start was to troll y'all a bit, so mission accomplished I guess . But since August a lot of time passed, so you're wondering what happened? Well basically Deinfruehstueck started work on a new version of the model, I and a friend got some use of the 9€-Ticket collecting references, and got busy with school and stuff.
On November 4th I got a surprise ZIP containing the first parts of the new model. I soon got to work and from the beginning I worked on it being Livery Designer compatible. The idea to share this whole thing through Creators Club already existed back in August.
Internally this is a copy paste of the BR 112 (again) with all references (regrettably) changed to "TSG_BR111". I just *had* to put something there, and as it's normal for TSG to not have route abbreviations in their plugin names, I went with that (again regrettably; sorry Maik, but it's not the end of the world for either of us).
Now it was just a matter of making the loco functional. You know, setting up the materials (plus screaming at UE's terrible Skeletal Mesh pipeline), adding bones to the mesh, bugfixing, getting the rest of the model and doing more of that. Before I knew it Bremen-Oldenburg was right around the corner with that to-be-determined Railfan TV stream, and I finalised everything by making that DB Netz and RADVE livery (that one has 490 layers btw). And yes they are real liveries! I wanted everything to look legit when you look at it in a hex-Editor.
The last thing I added was a little fake "LIGHTING NEEDS TO BE REBUILD (1 unbuilt object)" message through God Mode, ended up paying off.
With that, welcome to the present!
Now I'm not going to promise when or even IF you will ever get your hands on this train, keep your expectations low as with everything TSW and see if that works with Bremen-Oldenburg. Cheers!