Blender Tutorial Making a Railway Track for Train Modelling, Animation and Use in the Game Engine

This tutorial shows how to make a railway track, it uses the same techniques as the tutorial on making a car race track –

There will be other train tutorials, looking at how to animate vehicles following a track and how to control a vehicle on rails in the Blender Game Engine.

In this tutorial a Bezier circle is used for the track outline, though any Bezier curve could be used. A track cross section is then modelled. Very simple materials are created, it would not be difficult to make more realistic materials.

The track cross section is wrapped around the outline using a combination of an array modifier and a curve modifier.

The rail cross section image file and the finished Blender file can be downloaded from my website –

http://blender.freemovies.co.uk/train-tutorials/

Train animation tutorial part 1

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