BVE Scene No 5: Barrow - Sellafield republished

[eezypeazy]

November's edition of BVE Scene has been published. As usual, it contains the latest updates from BVE Pages.

It gives me great pleasure to be able to re-publish Derek Kaye's Barrow - Carlisle pt 2 route, which runs up the Cumbrian coast from Barrow as far as Sellafield. This route was last updated in December 2005.

I'm also pleased to announce that Tom Beevers' objects are finding a new home within our Object Library. First to be re-issued are the Newbury houses and Cantley flats.

New objects this month are a very fine three-arched brick overbridge (which can also be used as a viaduct) and a milk churn.

The second issue of The Art of Object Building concludes guillyman's article on using the cylinder command by explaining how to successfully apply textures to them.

And there's also first news of a brand new route that's in production.

Pop over to BVE Scene to read all the details.


Regards

eezypeazy

[halenbeek45]

Eezypeazy,

Can you set for the next stations the door open at the rightside:
Green Road and Millom, platform is at the leftside.

At Sellafield opens the door at the leftside, platform is rightside.

With respect.

Rudolf

[eezypeazy]

Hi Rudolf,

Thank you for pointing out these errors.

Does this mean that you're running the route in openBVE? Does it run OK otherwise?

I have now fixed the errors in the BVE 4 version, so that any future downloads will be correct. If anyone who downloaded the route before 1415 GMT today would a copy of the amended route file only, please contact me by email.

Regards

eezypeazy

[halenbeek45]

Eezypeazy,

OpenBVE a little problem with bridges.

Where it get a curve there is no background, it comes slowly when you drive out of the bridge.

When I found more then I let you know.

I drive now bve4.

Can you link Vally to EMCL and make the route to Edinburgh, than we have a little route to drive.

So as you know lay all 5 years on bed and that is what do and like it.

Next time send a new route to me for testing if you wish. (e-mail usename@msn.com)

With respect.

Rudolf

[eezypeazy]

Hi Rudolph,

Thank you for your feedback.

Barrow - Sellafield was written by Derek Kaye some time ago - it was last updated four years ago, well before openBVE came along! So I'm afraid I can't offer any support at the moment to make it openBVE compatible.

With regard to linking Tyne Valley to ECML: in thoery, this would be possible, except that the routes do not share a common object index, so either the Tyne Valley or the ECML section would have to be re-written. There would be a lot of work in this.

An alternative is to use the BVE Launcher tool from BVE Pages to create a Roster. This tool makes little batch files that, for a Roster, loads the routes you select in the order you specify. I've made a Roster that uses the Deltic railtour from Carlisle, followed by the Deltic railtour to Berwick. There's a link to the batch file here - save it as a file with the .bat extension. The only discrepancy is that you arrive at Newcastle at Platform 5 and depart from Platform 2. However, this produces a Carlisle - Berwick run with just a short "comfort break" at Newcastle - without the work of recoding!

With regard to extending the ECML to Edinburgh: I'm afraid that I don't have any research documents or photographs to enable me to do this. Now, if I had, for example, copies of the five-mile diagrams, some help from anyone locally with photographs, and lots of time, then perhaps I would consider this.

My current project is to extend Tyne Valley southwards along the Durham Coast to Middlesbrough, which will produce a Carlisle - Middlesbrough drive of about 100 miles.

So I'd better get on my bicycle and set off for the train to Thornaby....

Regards

eezypeazy