Distant Mountain Scenery And Such

[GoGoran]

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

That much is clear. I was just making the point in case the OR team was deciding on some artificial cut-off point, like "OK, 35km viewing distance should be enough, let#s cut it off there and leave the mountains beyond that distance unrendered." Please don't.

[OTTODAD]

Artificial Distant Mountains can also be created with DEMEX, which is what I did to give them to the Marias-Kootenai, my Gold-Spike-X and Jim Ward's last Port Ogden & Northern route.

If there are terrain tiles in a MSTS LO_TILES folder then ORTS now shows them.

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[rdamurphy]

That much is clear. I was just making the point in case the OR team was deciding on some artificial cut-off point, like "OK, 35km viewing distance should be enough, let#s cut it off there and leave the mountains beyond that distance unrendered." Please don't.

jjtang created the code for the DM, and we can ask him, but I'm sure that OR will display all of the DM available. Some have observed that since OR displays more of the normal tiles, it displays less DM, but that is a good thing. I'm not sure you realize, however, what it would take to display DM out to 135K. Or even 35K. And to be honest, I kind of doubt anyone would create a route with that much DM. It would take days just to create the tiles. And even if they did, I highly doubt anyone's computer would even be able to load it.

Robert

[csantucci]

--. I'm not sure you realize, however, what it would take to display DM out to 135K. Or even 35K. And to be honest, I kind of doubt anyone would create a route with that much DM. It would take days just to create the tiles. And even if they did, I highly doubt anyone's computer would even be able to load it.
Robert

Hi Robert, I wouldn't comment about the time a computer needs to load big amounts of DM, but I can tell you that with DEMEX creating large amounts of DMs isn't a problem at all.

[tscraftsman]

Thanks OR team for implementing distant mountains in such a short period of time. Keep up the great work! Move over MSTS... OR Is My Simulator Of Choice!

[cbff33]

I tried it,,,but even with dm now...it still lacks a great deal, and has me feeling like i'm back in Trainz. Maybe when it's more complete it will interest me more.

[OTTODAD]

Bob Wirth being in the news in the MSTS forum, his earlier Tennessee Pass route being mentioned, I got it to test it's distant mountains in ORTS and below is what it's scenery looks like in ORTS, there being many landslides everywhere.

No trees on mountain slopes makes the scenery look a bit bare !

Weird reflections on the water again, flickering on and off driving along the river, I have bug-reported showing on the Bernina lakes and some time ago posted about them also showing on the river Rhine at Cologne in the Wupper-Express-11.

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[mnjrr]

JiJun has fixed in OR v1527 the issue of the mudslides. The fix will eventually get incorporated as part of a future experimental release.