Distant Mountain Scenery And Such

[eric]

Ask for r1525 -- it fixes a few things that were in r1523 this morning.

[OTTODAD]

Ask for r1525 -- it fixes a few things that were in r1523 this morning.

Yes, I did !

Thanks, O t t o.

[eric]

Actually, I was just looking... Download the Tortoise SVN tool, pull down the source, and you'll wind up with a a "PROGRAM" folder and the compiled EXE's

[OTTODAD]

Thanks for letting me know that !

It's too early yet to go to bed, being a night owl !

Will have a go so I won't have to wait for Carlo, probably being busy enjoying Easter in Tirano, I hope !

Amazing how the ORTS team have managed to put partial snow onto the mountain tops, we have been trying to do since it's first release and test what they will look like in the ORTS Winter.

O t t o

[OTTODAD]

No luck !

Tried everything I know, Cookies enabled, AVG Pro not interfering and below is what happened.

You have my e-mail address.

Could you be so kind and ZIP your ORTS folder and e-mail it to me ?

O t t o

[eric]

Looks like Tortoise was installed correctly. Might want to try reconnecting later -- it's possible uktrainsim was having issues.

[csantucci]

It works now. Now it is version 1527.

[ChrisD]

Otto, it is not all that difficult.

I have just downloaded and installed the visual C# from MS, and the XNAGS31 pack also from MS.

Used Tortoise SVN to get the source code. Loaded the trunk into a new I:\OR folder made just for that.

Now, Just click on the I:\OR\source\orts.sln and the visual c# fires up automatically.

Select build, build solution, and in a few secs the new executables are ready in the program folder.

Leave them there, just fire up the openrails.exe. In folders, point to your MSTS folder as usual, select options to enable distant mountains and off You go.

It took me less than an hour. If I can do it, You surely can too. Do It OTTO

This is one of the greatest improvements to OR, so far.

It is like a whole new Train Sim and the experience is totally different from what we are used to.

Well done OR.

Now OTTO, let us hear how You are doing.

ChrisD

[csantucci]

Chris,
it is NOT necessary to recompile and rebuild the sources to have the latest ORTS release. Within the pack that gets downloaded through Tortoise SVN there is a PROGRAM folder that already contains the last executable build, including OPENRAILS.EXE, RUNACTIVITY.EXE and so on.

[ChrisD]

Chris,
it is NOT necessary to recompile and rebuild the sources to have the latest ORTS release. Within the pack that gets downloaded through Tortoise SVN there is a PROGRAM folder that already contains the last executable build, including OPENRAILS.EXE, RUNACTIVITY.EXE and so on.

Well, that is even easier. I did not check, I just got the files, followed the instructions and compiled a new executable.

But OTTO, now You just can´t say No.

This is, in my opinion, the best visual improvement to OR, so far.

Since my previous post, I have tried out the Marple Leaf Track´s Rogers Pass. Going east from Revelstoke, You really can see that you are driving through a pass.

ChrisD

[apco25]

Downloaded SVN and the latest dev release....easy stuff.

[OTTODAD]

BRILLIANT and yes, that's more to my liking now and a BIG THANKS to the ORTS team, Carlo and Eric !

The photo-realistic Bernina Snow folder Terrain textures not having a snow cover, ORTS of course has problems with displaying it.

I am not a fan of Winter at my age, snow covering all the terrain textures, looking the same.

The frame rate of course now reflect that the ORTS graphics engine has more work to do displaying all this.

The exhaust smoke is still environmental unfriendly and will no doubt be looked into when there are less important tasks on the TO-DO list !

I doubt whether TS-2013 will be able to match distant mountains looking like in the ORTS Bernina in their coming Marias Pass route !

I am going to have some fun now with ORTS and wish you all a VERY HAPPY EASTER too !

O t t o

[GoGoran]

First of all, congratulations to the OR-Team for finally getting the issue of the DistantMountains tackled. Big Up !

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....

I concur. In German's state of Bavaria, the 3,000m-high mountains of the Alpes are even visible from a distance of over 100km away, from the state's capital of Munich, on clear days. So OR should try and display all DMs up to 120km at least, if that is possible.

[cbff33]

Looks like I may start using OR more. I'm from colorado.....if a route is in the mountains.....I expect mountains.....thanks guys.

[rdamurphy]

I concur. In German's state of Bavaria, the 3,000m-high mountains of the Alpes are even visible from a distance of over 100km away, from the state's capital of Munich, on clear days. So OR should try and display all DMs up to 120km at least, if that is possible.

It's only possible if the DM actually exist in the route. OR, like any other app, can't display what isn't in the route folder. The author of the route would have to download and DEM the DM all the way out to 120km.

Remember, OR, just like MSTS, ONLY displays what's actually in the route folder.

Robert