v360 thread

[sniper297]

Well, I suspect the solution to your problem will be to throw money at it.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...00.2143.0.html

Notebooks don't do as well as equivalent model desktops in general, simply because there are so many compromises to save weight and power consumption, and that particular video chip isn't the best of the notebook chips.



"I think we have some issues with the sun ???

Sun should be at 90 deg or east not 0 deg - north ?

Activity also started at 12 noon sun should be almost directly overhead ?"

Depends on the season, your screenshots show -32 latitude which is well south of the equator, the noonday sun should be due north. Where I am is 44.5 degrees north of the equator, coming up on the fall equinox in a couple of days so I'm watching the sun set in the southwest.

[drjayyy]

Problem Solved !!! I running a Creative Labs x-FI Xtreme Gamer sound card [xp64 pro] it has 3 modes gaming , entertainment and I believe sound editing. Neither mode helped so I got the idea to try the onboard HD sound on my Asus p5nd mobo .And it works .

[SD40R]

Well, I suspect the solution to your problem will be to throw money at it.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-...00.2143.0.html

Depends on the season, your screenshots show -32 latitude which is well south of the equator, the noonday sun should be due north. Where I am is 44.5 degrees north of the equator, coming up on the fall equinox in a couple of days so I'm watching the sun set in the southwest.

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear enough. I don't have any problems.

I am aware that my 4 year old laptop is obsolete and needs replacing.

But my situation is that a laptop suits me as I can still build models and routes and run Trainsims wherever I might be - chained to a desktop does not suit.

I am extremely chuffed at being able to run OR on my old laptop and finding and reporting it runs better in fullscreen or widescreen than in a window may help others in a similar situation. I thought it was a relevation, as it the exact opposite of anything else I have ever experienced in any gaming siuation - but perhaps not...

The horrible displaying of dynamic shadows is not an issue with me at this stage, I simply turn them off and will get a better laptop later.

The issue of gray screen displaying instead of a cabview when using an aliased cabview has not (I believe) been mentioned or documented in the docs. I also thought it may help others in a similar situation.

I have never taken that much notice of exactly where the sun is, only in relation to taking photos...
and that there is not much shadow at noon... I do know the sun is lower in winter than summer but that is about it. And if the sun is shining, then I have not died today...

Again, as I turned off dynamic shadows it really is not an issue.

Overall I am very happy with the current state of Open Rails and applaud all who are working on it. My only suggestion would be to not to make it too complicated as has been hinted at on other forums by changing file types ie. dds etc The beauty of MSTS is that there is a smaller learning curve for people who would like to make content. It may not be great content at first but improvement can come with practice.

Richard

[conrail1]

So far here is a quick look at my evaluation of OR v360 on two different gaming setups.


With the Feather River Route I've been getting this error message (on both machines) with various activities and in “Explore” mode. It does seem to happen in the same area of the route more frequently then in other locations -











The headlight beam seems to be off center on most of the equipment in the Feather River Route. When I get a chance I'll be installing some loco's from Streamlines and Diesels West to see what happens with other MSTS add-ons.






I was surprised that the cabs from models developed for MSTS don't look all that bad in OpenRails -













Here is a screen shot of the dynamic shadows with the new Nvidia 260.63 drivers. Despite the new eye candy with OR v360 I did not notice any frame rate hit and in some instances performance seemed to improve over v128. Dynamic shadows looked equally as good with the ATI 10.9 drivers as they do with Nvidia's -







All in all another impressive update for OpenRails.

[OTTODAD]

Looking good, but I do not get any shadows with all MSTS Advanced Display options maxed and ticked. Time in the GS-X 10 AM.

Forests of course do not have any.

Restoring Catalyst A.I. and enabling Adaptive AA mode no difference.

O t t o

[twpol]

Looking good, but I do not get any shadows with all MSTS Advanced Display options maxed and ticked.

Open Rails does not use MSTS's options - it has its own, accessible from the menu screen. Dynamic shadows are turned off by default in OR along with a few other features like precipitation.

[OTTODAD]

Thanks, James, forgot about the ORTS Options !

Got some shadows now but not with stand-alone trees like conrail1 shows, with or without all my Catalyst settings selected.

Different graphics card make ?

O t t o

[twpol]

OR respects the "display shadows on this object" setting from the RE, so only some objects have shadows as determined by the route creator.

[OTTODAD]

No Train Brakes

Appears that all the default and add-on locos I have tested so far do not respond to train brakes being applied, but release alright to start with.

Many MSTS users having extensive numbers of consists, them being shown by the ORTS "Explore Route Details" list, they could do with sorting alphabetically in an array before displaying them in it's selections list.

O t t o

[OTTODAD]

Something strange here !

Same route, same time, different shadows ?

I have changed the tracks to concrete ties.

O t t o

[csantucci]

In our Bernina trainset I found that all trainsets I tested brake correctly, with the exclusion of the ABe 4/4 I (downloadable here http://rhbformsts.spoorpunt.nl/ABe44I.php?m=1 ), where only brake release and emergency brake work, while brake apply doesn't work. But I must say that I am not an expert in braking parameters, and perhaps I put an incorrect set of parameters in the .eng files.

Carlo

[conrail1]

Something strange here !

Same route, same time, different shadows ?

I have changed the tracks to concrete ties.

O t t o

Try a different time of day/sun position.

[OTTODAD]

Try a different time of day/sun position.

I am using the same time as your screenshot shows and the way the shadows are pointing would suggest that the position of the sun is the same.

However the foreground tree shadow is missing !

O t t o

[mnjrr]

Hello,

Perhaps the reason for the different shadows is because you are both are using different video cards.

[conrail1]

I am using the same time as your screenshot shows and the way the shadows are pointing would suggest that the position of the sun is the same.

However the foreground tree shadow is missing !

O t t o

If it was taken at the same time the shadow would be cast over the main line and over the siding track to the far right as in my screen shot.