Trees on track

[jjtang]

From the above experiments, I believe the boundary set in MSTS is not the tree trunk boundary: in MSTS trees are planted within an inner boundary of 1.5m (or some) smaller than the set boundary. That's why very few tree has branches out of the boundary in MSTS, well in OR trees can be planted closer to the boundary, thus many more branches poking out of the boundary (with greater distances as well).


This will lead to a much cheap solution in OR.

[eric]

From the above experiments, I believe the boundary set in MSTS is not the tree trunk boundary: in MSTS trees are planted within an inner boundary of 1.5m (or some) smaller than the set boundary. That's why very few tree has branches out of the boundary in MSTS, well in OR trees can be planted closer to the boundary, thus many more branches poking out of the boundary (with greater distances as well).


This will lead to a much cheap solution in OR.

Ideally, shouldn't a buffer be defined using the width value of the TreeSize property and the larger value of the Scalerange property?

I'm not that great at math, but I'd think that would eliminate branches poking thru the boundary wall...

[dcarleton]

Got today's release, #1492, ran an activity on Canton with the "Avoid trees on track" option checked, and find that there are still lots of trees encroaching on the track including some with tree trunks between the rails.

[jjtang]

eric:

Could you use the same set of experiments to see if MSTS has a fixed inner boundary, or varied by tree size? You can give it a very large scalerange to see which is the case. Thanks. (I am not great at route building)