DRS: Thoughts On Latest Version

[Lapioware]

Is there possibility for lit gauges and such on the desk, or is that not prototypical? If I do one of the last runs of the day at around 10pm, it's very hard to read them.

They fall into the night lighting category which I haven't got around to doing yet. That is: gauge and cab lights, passenger interior lights, head/marker/tail lights, signal lamps, lit platforms and stations, lights in houses etc.

[NorthernWarrior]

No worries on that Oskari, I figured it was on the "to do" list...

[metalangel]

Good to know, thank you. My living room (where I do all my gaming) has floor to ceiling windows, so I tend to match the time of day in my games to whatever it is outside, as otherwise the screen can be hard to see.

[seagoon]

Got those downloaded and had a quick drive on the Cumbrian one. Looks nicely done but no gradients - there is a steep climb out of Windermere something like 1 in 90 or 1 in 100 on the prototype, not there on the route.......

The "problem" with people such as myself, who don't know the locality, is that we wouldn't have a clue about the terrain.

Although, it would be possible (I think) to recreate a passable terrain by doing what I did with a couple of Trainz routes, and that is to hand-manipulate the contours by referring to a Google Maps view at the same time.
I did that for Robe and also for Potash - although for the latter a guy by the user-name of "Fishlips" (!) also provided a basic DEM map of the area.

[NorthernWarrior]

Ah, Potash... now you are going to get me reminiscing about Trainmaster 4. I've driven both the MSTS and Trainz versions which are excellent. I did many years ago try and build a version in what is now DTG TS but a none starter as - at the time - there were no decent desert terrain texture sets. Probably still aren't.

Now that would be something totally fun and wacky to do in DRS!

[seagoon]

Ah, Potash........Now that would be something totally fun and wacky to do in DRS!

Haaa! Yes, it would certainly be an "interesting" ride, Vern.

[haverfordwest]

Excuse me you two, this is a UK themed train game.

There are plenty of other train games that provide stuff for the also rans, around the world.

Mike.

[NorthernWarrior]

Well I have been known to drive Class 37's over Tehachapi in MSTS, before now...

[seagoon]

Well I have been known to drive Class 37's over Tehachapi in MSTS, before now...

And I've taken NSWGR trains over Kicking Horse Pass.

[haverfordwest]

Disgusting behaviour, i wash my hands of the pair of you.

Mike.

[JasonM]

Well I have been known to drive Class 37's over Tehachapi in MSTS, before now...

Should try it with an 09 Vern 😀

[NorthernWarrior]

Should try it with an 09 Vern 😀

Well not an issue on the bits where the speed limit is only 25 MPH anyway!