Switching (Shunting) Activity

[apco25]

BIN is a "front" end for MSTS, OR is a different coded game engine and not a front end. Just because it can read and display content once used by MSTS does not make it a front end.

You do not need anything from MSTS to run OR. Someone will argue you need MSTS around to say run one of the old original routes. I will point out if you want to do that its just the content of that route being used, not the game engine itself. That is what OR replaces, the original game engine.

If you all don't believe me go and delete everything from your MSTS folder other than the global folders, routes, and trainset folders and see what happens. That's right no train.exe or anything else and OR will run just fine.

I have yet to experience this "switching" problems being complained about. Every switch I've encounted in my routes collection behaves as it should in activities.

[mdeming]

I have yet to experience this "switching" problems being complained about. Every switch I've encounted in my routes collection behaves as it should in activities.

Same here have had no problems, I have noticed OR is finicky about remaining on the path especially in a passing siding, which did not affect the switching at all. With msts I found that it is best to keep paths as simple as possible. I would assume the same is true with OR.

[OTTODAD]

BIN is a "front" end for MSTS.

MSTSBin is a binary modified by George Train.exe and associated with it DLLs, many of it's functions having been improved, like front couplers, lights, some new functions having been added by him and much more !

http://mstsbin.uktrainsim.com/eng/eng.html

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[apco25]

It's still a front end to MSTS by modifying the original train.exe unlike Open Rails which is a totally NEW game engine.