That said, working with Starfield while modding for the game “is still in its infancy” has presented him with some fresh challenges to overcome. Along the way he's found ways to swap out dragons for trains, outfit the Sole Survivor with some killer locomotive power armour and even given folks a chance to ride around Blackreach using a restored Dwarven railroad, proving, if nothing else, that pretty much anything is possible in the world of modding. Trainwiz is very much a veteran of Bethesda game modding, having first cut his teeth working with Morrowind back in 2006 and since made mods for Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas. Spite is a potent creative fuel, I've found,” the modder says, regarding how these encounters have influenced his attitude towards creating mods involving the character, adding: “I don't learn lessons when it's a giant soulless corporation saying I should be learning them.” “All they've done is make me double down out of spite. While he's previously had to deal with a bit of trouble from Mattel due the fact that Thomas the Tank Engine is a licensed entity (despite mods generally being able to rely on fair use law for protection provided that their creators don’t make money from them), Brock reports that nothing of that nature has surfaced from their latest work.
o54kYRbOQ5- Trainwiz OctoTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. I have replaced all ships in #Starfield with Thomas the Tank Engine. Since those modding Starfield currently lack the tools required to create new materials for models they’re editing, instead having to take them from existing in-game objects, Trainwiz “had to mess around with overwriting materials and textures in Starfield itself, and then figure out how Starfield handles its system and how to scale it properly so that model could engulf most starships.”Īnd lo, as you can see below, engulf starships it did. To start with, Thomas' original model was in pieces that had different things (some transparent, some not), so I had to remake the model as one single object, including turning his entire texture library into one atlas.” “I started it on Tuesday night,” he recounts. “How could you not laugh at that? There's no soul behind those eyes, not a smidgen of regret for the blood he's spilled,” he continues, “Frankly, if he were animated in any way, it'd take away the hilarity of the joke.”īrock is fresh off of bringing that joke to Starfield in his own special way, by creating a mod which swaps out the default model of every single ship in the Settled Systems for Sir Topham Hat’s best train. “Look at his face,” modder Kevin Brock, aka Trainwiz, says of Thomas the Tank Engine, when I ask him why he thinks the wholesome locomotive has become such a pervasive running gag within modding communities.
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