Locomotive: Southern Pacific GS-4 #4449 Daylight

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194k Tris — Hybrid Asset with 5 material calls. I chose to create this to help solidify my understanding of hybrid trim sheets for large scale assets— No high to low baking necessary. Responsible for locomotive modeling & materials, rig & animation, railroad crossing sign & track. Rendered in UE5 with Lumen.

Credits:
Photo References: Contributors from http://www.rrpicturearchives.net & https://www.railpictures.net, Stephen Low's "Train Time", Oregon Rail Heritage Center
Southern Pacific Font: Licensed from RailFonts.com
Roughness Textures: David Gruwier's Surface Imperfection's Vol 1: https://dgruwier.gumroad.com/l/surfaceimperfections
Railroad Track Ballast: Quixel Megascan
Smoke Particle VDB: JangaFX https://jangafx.com/software/embergen/download/free-vdb-animations/