BVE: New Route Uploaded

[mfonda]

I have just uploaded the start of a route from the 80s that travelled from Amsterdam to Munich, following the left bank of the Rhein river to Bonn, crossing it at Mainz and then to Wiebaden, ect.
It is more or less finished a few km before Utrecht. I am still undecided whether to continue this route as an 80's route; if not, and I revert to a more modern time, I shall have to add two more tracks from Amsterdam to Utrecht :-( (When I started this route I was as yet unaware that a lot had happened since.) Perhaps I will decide against the Rheingold route and continue from Utrecht as the Haarlem-Maastricht IC800. I have some time to make up my mind.
As a metter of fact, my route starts at Zandvoort aan Zee, a famous
resort on the North Sea, often frequented by visitors who did not mind the long and slow route that this meandering train took.
In any case, the route as it stands is pretty well accurate as far as the trackage is concerned. Landscaping and buildings are, of course, fantasy, but where buildings are indicated on the map I have placed a building. Road and river crossing are also indicated.
Accuracy of the track has been checked with www.wikimapia.org.
I have used most of the borrowed objects of previous routes,plus a couple of others, the authors of which I thank profusely. (All are identified in the objects list.
This route will unzip into your 'unzipped' folder, from where it can be moved to the BVE Object folder. It includes its own Buildings and Marker Folders.
NS Trains.txt shows the new train numbers (from Wikipedia).
This section is not complete as yet. You will see, for instance, that Amsterdam Centraal station is only hinted at; I still have to figure out how to make the roof. Any ideas or hints?
My website is http://web.ncf.ca/fb214/ The route is called (for now)
Rheingold. The files are: Rheingold.zip for the objects, and
Rheingold.rw for the route. Let me know what you think. Martin

The attachment shows the train entering Haarlem.

[VICTOR]

RE: New Route Uploaded

For start let's say this: if thios route is from Japan, I would put it on my recommEndation list :-)

Route is very nice, tidy, precise and very pleasent for driving. I admire your dealing with swirches and station tractoin, it is superb and very hard to make. The fact that many objects are not yours is not something which should bother anybody, but consider in future to make more your own objects. If not, please you can freely use objects from my downloiad section (if you like it, of course). You can also play around also with textures, for example, add some brown to gray colors used for bridge poles, you'll seee some nice, new effectS.

I have noticed that route after Utrecht becomes more empty, I believe it is still work in progress. As I understood, you have tried to follow reality as much it is possible. I don't know much about holland signals, but using more aspects could be more interesting for driving, especialy after dealing with BRR.

O yes, you know that I am a great fan on BVE2 version (nowdays I am thinking of program which could enable using BVE4 routes for BVE2), but I do think that it is time to learn writting in .csv format, it is better for route (I converted to CSV in the middle of making Panorama line, I couldn't switch pole types until I have tried with csv).

About packing files for distribution: go to the object folder and to your folder (Rheingold)and than zip it using save full path info. That way you can make easy to the people. Same thing for route files.
You can even make SFX files (I use IZArc) :-)

I hope you don't mind this suggestions.

Again, I am impressed with route.

For the end, two my favourite spots (I love overhead crossings:-))

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8088/marou8.gif

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2629/mar2sm0.gif

[mfonda]

RE: New Route Uploaded

Thanks for your kind comments. As for the borrowed objects, they do not bother me; as a matter of fact, some are mde by me from downloaded texture files: they are in the Buildings folder. Also, I am about to purchase a digital camera, so I can take pix of buildings here. They will be my objects, but still not the actual buildings on the route. Still fantasy. I am also looking at BVE 4 coding and hope to use it in the future as well. The signals. Ther ones that are there are mainly block sinals every km. You should know, that although
Holland had double track, it is signalled for two-way traffic on both tracks. I have the plan for this, but it is very complicated, and for now too time consuming. I will continue landscaping along the Amsterdam-Utrecht route. I am hamstrung because I have not yet decided to put in another double track from Bijlmer station to Utrecht. As for the background, this should have been changed after Amsterdam, back to the usual drab sky. I shall also look into repacking the object file. The zip-file was necessary because the file is very large. Again, thanks for your comments and I am glad you like it so far.

[vince_black]

RE: New Route Uploaded

Hi after quite long time :-)

Just one notice - zip file would have "Rheingold" folder and there would be place all other fiels, because one couldn't know he must to create this folder under "Object" ...

Greetings,

[mfonda]

RE: New Route Uploaded

Thank you Vince. You are right, of course, and I shall immediately cortrect this oversight. I will also enlarge the rheingold-read-me file to mention your updated NSMat64 train. I use the old one, because of its large all-encompassing screen. For the Rheingold route I was actually looking fot the German Class DB103, but I cannot find the "Führerstand". Zusi has one that is simular. Another one would be the Dutch Koploper, a copy of which I have on my MSTrain Sim. I have used the Rheingold coaches in several spots. They are very pretty. I have also looked for a good tutorial to make panels. I have not found one yet, not am I experienced in used it. Best wishes. Attached is a copy of the Rheingold train.