Part-finished animation ......

[Egg Bramhill]

.... created in Xara Pro+ & SVGator.

I've yet to do the lights & a train.

DEMO

[handrawn]

you make it look so easy - very smoothly done

[Spamiky]

Egg - it's a great job.

[Boy]

Nice one, Egg!

[Acorn]

Egg, make it a man-powered pump trolley instead. It's the way we'll all be travelling soon.

Nice graphics.
The UK usually has half-barriers to allow for a trapped motorist to drive out. Full automatic barriers have to be locally monitored.
Get it wrong and you'll incur the wrath of Rod Stewart.
The barriers need a slight bounce at their end stops.

Acorn

[wizard509]

.... created in Xara Pro+ & SVGator.

I've yet to do the lights & a train.

DEMO

i love it, looking forward to seeing the finished anim., so smooth.

[xtom]

Nice animation. svgator, looks interesting. I gave up on trying to do an animation in Xara the other day because I couldn't see a way to do easing.

[Egg Bramhill]

Thanks folks. It's an ongoing project. Whilst SVGator is good it's in no way as versitile as Flash used to be where you could import numerous .swf files into a single swf file. At present I'm having to create placeholders one above another with various .svg files to create the overall effect. But it keeps me out of the pub!

[Egg Bramhill]

I'll try getting some bounce on the barriers but meanwhile here's the latest version. Lights included but they need switching off at some times. Crap looking train added. You might need to do Ctrl+F5 to ensure you're viewing the latest version of the svg's

DEMO

[Boy]

I knew there was a train coming! Even two....

One suggestion: lower the trains a bit. Now they seem too hover above the tracks.