After BVE2 and BVE4, now OpenBVE

[fcancalon]

Hello,
The information is already available is some messages, but it is important to remind in a specific thread the arrival of a new open-source version of BVE, OpenBVE, which is available there:

http://openbve.zxq.net/

Open-source: this version can be modified by the BVE community (BVE was quite closed)
The available version is a alpha one, but it is really astonishing; You can benefit, in particular, from a camera with allows you to see the track from outside the train and see the train from outside). A gap between BVE and MSTS is disappearing.
Thanks to the author(s ?) of this new version :-)

[VICTOR]

After quite time, it is a big news.

However, developing has just started so we have to wait for a while because at the momment it is just demo. Also, this maybe could be motivation to Mackoy's itself. We have to admit that this is a kind of challenge. I haven't noticed any reactions from Japan, though. Yet.

[fcancalon]

Hello,
No reaction from Japan but (a) the new OpenBVE release appeared just a few days ago (and was implemented, in alpha version, so rapidly) (b) the demonstration was developped with the agreement of the author of the Tanigumi route, which is a very positive approach.
I have the feeling that shortly, with the OpenBVE development, we will see some Japanese routes adapted too. BVE2 and BVE4 versions already exist, a new OpenBVE version will be proposed as the route .csv file apparently has to include supplementary camera instructions (and I am not sure that the train file will not have to be improved too, in order to allow external views -but those trains on the tanigumi route were already modified). However, OpenBVE is planned to work correctly with 95 % of existing BVE2 and BVE4 routes, even if it is, as presently with BV2 and BVE4, without external views.

[Amtrak7]

Wow!!!

The resolution changers on this page do wonders for the GUI!

[techno79]

I hope they do something to fix this program. The link in the first post sends me to pop-up heaven and some blog with random internet stories.

And the link in the post above mine takes me to the OpenBVE site, but the zip download ends before it's complete. And then when I click it again, I get 404 errors!

I guess I'll wait for the next version with audio anyway.

[fcancalon]

Hi,
No problem for me for downloads and installation.
Last version (0.3) is without sound (but it is < 1 :-)). Meanwhile result is superb when tested with Narita Line, Sea Line and the mountain line over Genoa.
What we have now is clearly a new BVE, and this will quite surely stimulate route creation (quality over MSTS, but it is free).
OpenBVE has, moreover, another common point with BVE2 and BVE4: we don't know a lot about the genious guy who created that and is progressing so rapidly.

[Amtrak7]

I hope they do something to fix this program. The link in the first post sends me to pop-up heaven and some blog with random internet stories.

And the link in the post above mine takes me to the OpenBVE site, but the zip download ends before it's complete. And then when I click it again, I get 404 errors!

I guess I'll wait for the next version with audio anyway.

The homepage is here.
The other server went down 2 days ago.

[techno79]

I downloaded it. Having trouble with some of the graphics, not sure if I'm not doing it right.
New version is good news. I would hate to start working on my route again, and then BVE stops being used or compatible.
I hope the physics is added. That is the best thing about BVE versus all the other programs.

[fcancalon]

OpenBVE 0.5.0.1

New version of OpenBVE (0.5.0.1) is available. Sound possibilities are present as well as the possibility to use directly any BVE2 route. Even if some transparency problems can appear, the software is brilliant and can now be considered as better than BVE2 (those under VISTA or LINUX will appreciate too the possibility to use BVE).
BVE4 routes are still not supported, but this is probably a question of weeks.

[Amtrak7]

In the default Uchibo (BVE 2), all I see is the panel, announcer, and white. On the exterior view-I see the train hazily. As I depart, I see the platform out of the corner of my eye. It is like heavy fog or way too much specular lighting.

Fog error?

EDIT: In version 0.5.0.3, the problem is fixed.

[8points]

Which file do you open when you have the Open... dialog? The .csv?
I tried it on "Southern Blighton-Treston Park 2" but it got all sorts of file not found errors, and rendered everything, how can I say it, weird. But it did run.
I'm so used to BVE4 now I've forgotten how to drive BVE2. Trying to work the reverser with the up/down arrow keys just rotates my view.
But it is lots faster than BVE2 was, and the outside view is nice.

[Amtrak7]

Yes, you open the CSV or RW. Get version 0.5.0.3, it fixes a fog problem.

Read the readme for key assignments.

[velaro]

and rendered everything, how can I say it, weird.

If the colors look off, try switching your display settings to 32 bit if you have it set to 16 bit now. If you're talking about transparancy issues that didn't show up when running the route in BVE 2, those are actually errors in the route objects that were concealed by what is arguably a bug in BVE 2.

[Joao_CG]

Open BVE's site is a pain, can't be able to access the page from here (cannot be displayed)...
I'm still running version 04.01, all BVE routes are drivable, except those made for BVE 4, due to .x format not accepted. Even the most high-detailed routes are running smoothly in my laptop ACER 1.6 Ghz with 512 RAM. Pretty good indeed, very promising...
I have played around with several trainsets made by myself, just a question:
-Would be possible, in a near future, a trainset with more than 3 cars???
Despite of that, program is excellent. So, I felt encouraged to come back to my BVE route coding, after a retirement of aprox. 3 years.... Need to redrawn all my objects again, with all the 4 faces, to allow routes to be rode backwards. Definitely, a brand new horizon is coming to BVE world. My thanks for the creator which whom we don't know anything about him (or her...)


Best regards,


John Goncalves, Brazil

http://www.bvebrasil.com.br

(writing Pinda to Piracuama 2, 88% done...)

[BNSF4723]

Looks like things are still a bit rough right now, but I'll definitely be keeping on eye on this. I expect some really awesome things to come from the community if this takes off.