A test version of DM has been committed, please check it. You need to turn the feature on from Menu.exe, Options, Experiments.
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It's a good start:
Tortolita Mountains
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Tucson Mountains
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Catalina Mountains
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In the last set of shots, it looks like the DEM is being read in for the closer in terrain, but not for the further back. It's still better than what wasn't there before.Last edited by eric; 03-29-2013, 11:19.If you like what you see here at Trainsim.com, be it the discussions and knowledge in the forums, or items available in our library, I hope you'll consider a paid membership to help support keeping the site operating.... Thanks!Comment
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Hello,
Very good news and promising screenshots . Congratulations to the team who is able to solve this "DM mystery" .
Thank you Robert for your message.Phil, I agree completely, DM should work as well - or better than - MSTS. It's just a matter of time until the team discovers how Kuju did it, replicates it, and improves it. And I'm confident that time will be soon.
It turns out that you were quite right in your predictions.
Sincerely
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Great to see the first steps being taken to provide DM.
You team-members deserve a pat on the back for what you are doing.
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Experimental X.1502 - No distant mountains, no Kosmos environments in my Gold-Spike-X !
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Otto, you must download release 1525 from the ORTS source files web page (starting from "Provided link to source files here").
The DM are there and provide great results with the Bernina Railway:
AlpGruem3_ORTS.jpg Montebello_ORTS.jpg
Ospizio_ORTS.jpg Towards_Poschiavo_ORTS.jpgsigpicComment
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I'm quite happy with it. I just wish it could break the 20km barrier that's currently there.
From the vantage point I was using for the last set of shots, there's a 9000m mountain 35km east of that position which dominates the local skyline; unfortunately, the only thing visible are the foothills.
Likewise, there's another peak to the Northwest which is clearly visible from 40km, and slowly pops into view at 20km....If you like what you see here at Trainsim.com, be it the discussions and knowledge in the forums, or items available in our library, I hope you'll consider a paid membership to help support keeping the site operating.... Thanks!Comment
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Just DL'd 1502 now... can't wait to see the improvement.....sigpicJust say NO to Fictional Railroad Foaming...Comment
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Hello,
Thank you very much Carlo for these amazing screenshots of the Bernina route that proove that the ORTS team is really making a great job.
They are the best !
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1502 won't cut it. The only way you'll see it today is to download via SVN and compile the source on your own PC.
Being able to hack into the code is fun once you figure out C#....
Earlier in the week, I was doing some troubleshooting on one of my routes, and modified one of the string outputs to the logfile. It didn't help much with my debugging, but I did successfully update the logfile...
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Found a web site at UK-trainsim which hosts them but there are no clear instructions on how to download them and then what to do with them.
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=13KpEPxFVeVu_US4oHjwKjxQcH3_4Wib1zBmqEspuCK A
Has been a very long time since I had a go at trying to work on that source code !
Why can ORTS not just release the compiled with 1525 source code program, doing the above being beyond me without having to wind the clock back and learn doing that all over again !
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There's not a lot required to learn, Otto.
It took me about an hour to download and install all the pre-requisites to run the SVN and compile the source. Once that was done, it's taking me just a minute to rebuild the EXE's and run them.
Asking the programmers to build new distributions would probably slow down actual work. I'd rather have them working on the code.
There were two versions between what I did this morning, and what I just recompiled a few minutes ago (which seems to have extended the reach to 40Km, thanks JJ!)
Frankly, we're fortunate to be able to have access to the code so we can run it the same day the programmer checks it back in.
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I think I am going to ask Carlo to let me have a Zip of his updated with this source code ORTS folder and only being 4 Mb can be attached to an e-mail to me.
Will save me having to dust off many of my old brain cells !
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