hey cam! i have 2 questions: 1: so i know you bought the solent limited routes a while ago, but where did you find these B5TL MK2s. i cant find them anywhere on the workshop. 2: how do you come up with the brands for national busways? they look so cool.
Hiya! So, 1; the B5s came from a discord server and I believe they are still to be released publicly, but I was given prior permission to show them on the channel so I assume they are to be released at some point and as soon as they are, I will mention it in the following South Coast video. And 2; I'm studying graphic design. The Morse brand wasn't actually intended to fit a "National Busways" thing, but was meant for a more independent Southern Vectis. I used morse code because of the maritime connection of the local area- the Solent was one of the busiest areas of the world for passenger ships at one point, including the Titanic's route. As for Landore, I wanted an 'older' livery to accompany Morse as the morse scheme looked way too modern to go on something like a Dart from new. It was Landore that birthed the National Busways concept, and it's own inspiration was the airline liveries designed by Landore, notably British Airways' old livery. From there I decided that Morse would fit a more modern National Busways as around the '00s and early '10s the idea of 'national' services in certain sectors became really unattractive, so adapting the Morse scheme originally introduced at South Coast's Solent and Southern Vectis sectors was to be how National Busways localised their branding. Sorry this is so long but I wanted to answer you properly.
@@camjkerman thats a wonderful insight! i dont mind the reply is so long i really enjoyed reading it! but information like that for question 2 would be a wonderful read. and also thanks for letting me know that the B5 isnt actually public yet.
@@OTG9.3 Repaint templates are available for most if not all buses in CBM on the official City Bus Manager discord, sometimes you can find links to templates in workshop posts as well. Templates will typically be either .pdn or .psd, .pdn files can be opened natively in Paint.NET, which is free, and has an available plug-in which enables it to open .psd files which would otherwise require Adobe Photoshop. With your template in Paint.NET or Photoshop, you can create your livery, usually there will be a layer called livery or paint me or something along those lines. I'm a graphic designer and make use of a programme called Illustrator to design my liveries, which makes the whole process easier for me, rather than doing everything in Paint.NET or Photoshop. I may do a tutorial video for creating liveries- both conventionally and my way- in the near future. Anyway, once you're happy with your creation, save/export it as a .png file to a memorable place on your system, I have a dedicated folder for all my repaints, further categorised to different sectors like Solent Red and Southern Vectis to make finding the livery I want easier. Then select the import repaint option in the game when buying or repainting a bus, and you'll have your livery in game.
Yeah In Salisbury we have the Salisbury reds
hey cam! i have 2 questions:
1: so i know you bought the solent limited routes a while ago, but where did you find these B5TL MK2s. i cant find them anywhere on the workshop.
2: how do you come up with the brands for national busways? they look so cool.
Hiya!
So, 1; the B5s came from a discord server and I believe they are still to be released publicly, but I was given prior permission to show them on the channel so I assume they are to be released at some point and as soon as they are, I will mention it in the following South Coast video.
And 2; I'm studying graphic design. The Morse brand wasn't actually intended to fit a "National Busways" thing, but was meant for a more independent Southern Vectis. I used morse code because of the maritime connection of the local area- the Solent was one of the busiest areas of the world for passenger ships at one point, including the Titanic's route. As for Landore, I wanted an 'older' livery to accompany Morse as the morse scheme looked way too modern to go on something like a Dart from new. It was Landore that birthed the National Busways concept, and it's own inspiration was the airline liveries designed by Landore, notably British Airways' old livery. From there I decided that Morse would fit a more modern National Busways as around the '00s and early '10s the idea of 'national' services in certain sectors became really unattractive, so adapting the Morse scheme originally introduced at South Coast's Solent and Southern Vectis sectors was to be how National Busways localised their branding.
Sorry this is so long but I wanted to answer you properly.
@@camjkerman thats a wonderful insight! i dont mind the reply is so long i really enjoyed reading it! but information like that for question 2 would be a wonderful read. and also thanks for letting me know that the B5 isnt actually public yet.
@@camjkermanhow did you do the livery’s, as I want to do my own for my cbm company Owen’s Transport
@@OTG9.3 Repaint templates are available for most if not all buses in CBM on the official City Bus Manager discord, sometimes you can find links to templates in workshop posts as well. Templates will typically be either .pdn or .psd, .pdn files can be opened natively in Paint.NET, which is free, and has an available plug-in which enables it to open .psd files which would otherwise require Adobe Photoshop. With your template in Paint.NET or Photoshop, you can create your livery, usually there will be a layer called livery or paint me or something along those lines. I'm a graphic designer and make use of a programme called Illustrator to design my liveries, which makes the whole process easier for me, rather than doing everything in Paint.NET or Photoshop. I may do a tutorial video for creating liveries- both conventionally and my way- in the near future. Anyway, once you're happy with your creation, save/export it as a .png file to a memorable place on your system, I have a dedicated folder for all my repaints, further categorised to different sectors like Solent Red and Southern Vectis to make finding the livery I want easier. Then select the import repaint option in the game when buying or repainting a bus, and you'll have your livery in game.
@@camjkermanI can't really do that, so I might have to just keep my livery just plain red, blue or green