Distant Mountains and Distance Levels.

[tscraftsman]

Just was wondering if distant mountains would be viewable in the up coming release of Open Rails. As well as if the distance levels would change and exceed out past 2000 meters.

[wacampbell]

Unfortunately, neither of these items are in the next release. But they are on the list - hopefully soon.

[tscraftsman]

Thanks for the speedy reply.

[twpol]

No, unfortunately not; distant mountains are not implemented yet.

I did just make some fixes so large viewing distances can be used instead; 10,000m seems to work pretty well. Obviously, this will run slower than a proper distance mountain implementation but since all MSTS shapes have a coded limit of 2000m (for in-box, not sure about 3rd party) it only actually draws the terrain and forests beyond 2000m. Also an interesting experiment for the future.

[tscraftsman]

Sounds good, I'm currently building a mountainous route and I would like to run the route in OR as I'm quite excited at what the future holds for OR. At the moment I could live with the distant fog as I enjoy simulating train handling physics aspect of things. I do have a copy of Run8 and enjoy simulating train handling I still prefer the freedom and friendliness that Openrails has as part of the fun for me is to create my own content for the simulator. Keep up the excellent work guys.

[csantucci]

Thanks for the answers of wacampbell and twpol. I'm happy to read that distant mountains remain in the agenda. Referring to viewing distances of standard terrain I hope that this will be parametrizable, especially at the moment where distant mountains will be implemented, because at least in my case in developing routes (freeware Bernina route) (but I think this could be valid also for routes developed by someone other) the terrain textures were selected having in mind if during runtime the standard terrain or the distant mountains would appear.

Carlo