Hi @djantir, could you create 3 car version of this, please?

This reminds me of the east coast / chicago style trains on the Wayne Industries - built, Gotham monorail in Nolan's Batman Begins film

@PHTN I've been noticing the same issue after subscribing to the asset myself. I've done a little bit of research on what could cause the LODs to bug out. I may have found the fix, so I'm working on importing that in a short while, if I have the right idea.

@Zaphod I'm glad you like the concept, and thank you! I'm pretty happy with the way the model came out. That is a shame Houston couldn't find the means to pull it off, though.

I got this error: Broken assets:

1407270214.TrailerSEPTA_MFL_Line_Color1: LOD xys null
1407270214.TrailerSEPTA_MFL_Line_Color0: LOD xys null
1407270214.SEPTA MFL (Colorable Monorail)_Data: LOD xys null [BrokenAssetException]

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What a delightfully freaky mashup.

This looks like it could have been a real vehicle in some alternate history where monorails became a successful mode of urban transportation in the US. Houston tried to develop a monorail-based regional metro(a la MARTA, WMATA, etc) as late as the mid 1980s. Its such a shame that plan never came to fruition, it would have been a really fascinating system and more useful than the surface light rail network that was ultimately built 20 years later.

@landandskygirl Ahhhhh, okay. Yeah, I'll hit them up. Thank you!

Anyone who makes monorails needs to make a choice between having a night illumination texture with the "glazed" texture, or a "crisp" texture with no night illumination (save for the headlights).

REV0 and Ronyx69 struggled with this for a while but eventually settled on the crisp textures. It's up to you though which works best with your monorails. If you ask them (REV0 and Ronyx69) I'm sure they'll fill you in on how they got "crisp" textures for their monorails.

@j4lambert Yup! Got that in the description, too. ;) As I was doing a test run of the monorail, I had a few splitting off in different directions, and it felt like some variation could really help this. I would've uploaded it right away, but it's been a busy weekend for me, so far.

@VandelayOfficial Thanks! That's pleasing to hear/read!

@Agamemnicon Yeah, if the monorails could go underground, that would be like opening the floodgates of wonders, to me. I'm still really shaky with architecture, so it's going to take me a bit to figure out how to make it really look good. Then I have to learn how to edit the pedestrian paths. I'm not sure which mod(s) make that possible, and I'm really bummed out to see that you apparently can't do that without a mod. If I do succeed in making a proper station, I'm going to also make sure the noise level is decreased, since one of the main complaints about the monorail stations is that they're incredibly noisy for nearby homes.

@djantir Oh! well then you certainly did a good job making it look realistic then lol.

That would be amazing. So far I believe there are only two non-vanilla stations created by the community (that are not rehashed models of vanilla assets). They are truly excellent, but more variety would be nice (in addition to a replacement for the over-avenue station). One of a handful of issues, imo, that prevents monorail from being able to replace a passenger rail network in my cities.

I also think the developers should have allowed monorail to make tunnels, but that's probably beyond the ken of modders.

Anyway, great work on this, when I'm done (or tired of) recreating Chicago (no monorails haha), I'll pick this up.

Will the top of the trains be line colorable?

Haha. @VandelayOfficial I wrote it in the description. Someone suggested using the game's monorail for the El, because of the innate ability to go over the roads (without mods). I'm gonna make the real version soon, so peeps can have the more authetic version.

There's a monorail in Philly? I legit had no clue.

@Agamemnicon I haven't fully gotten into buildings yet, but I am hoping to design a proper set of stations to go with some of these. If I can figure out all the measurements, and get the right references, I really want to build one or two monorail stations that mimic a mix of the stations for the El / MFL. I absolutely agree, the rounded monorail stations get old pretty fast, and do have that Jetsons feel to them.

@Roadmaster '93 That comment puts a huge smile on my face. That's why I agreed to make this. I wish I could remember who made the suggestion, because I thought it was brilliant, as it adds a new sense of variety and use to the monorail.

It's an awesome model, and it's probably just my own settings making dark. It's the only thing I can find that I would change.

Thanks, everyone, for the comments!

@Blujitsu It's a tough balance trying to find the right shade, as the game seems to brighten everything by a little. So if I make the gray too bright in Photoshop, it'll suddenly look near-white in the game. However, that really applies mostly to trains and other vehicles. As I left as a note in my description for this one, I seem to be getting this strange effect for my monorail (including the default one that comes with the game), where it's kind of cloudy looking. So there are a few fixes that'll need to be made. I'm not sure if that cloudiness is adding to the darkness you're seeing, or if I can safely raise it a bit. I can test that out more for you!

I was super confused by it being a monorail for a minute but it looks great. Only critique is that it's a little dark in color.

agree with everything said below. Now I have the motivation for a monorail

This looks really cool. Now we just need more station options besides the vanilla monorail station which looks like some silly thing out of the Jetsons.

Awesome!!