3 Route Merger in RW
I have followed and participated in the Thread in the RW forum where three RW Routes are combined into one.
The three Routes are: München - Rosenheim (new) and München - Augsburg and München - Garmish Partenkirschen.
All three Routes adds up to a little shy of 90 EUR's.
They look nice, but when You get 10 Km's out of Munchen, its mostly trees, with needles.
Having seen the real CAB-Rides sent by Bahn-TV and some new, available on You-Tube, it seems to me that most trees around München are with leaves, not needles....
I started to think: this is all something I have seen before, so I went down memory lane.
Sure as little apples, all three routes are available for MSTS and I checked: all three Routes runs terriffic in Open Rails.
München - Garmish. Well, why not all the way to Innsbruck? It's called the Karwendelbahn in MSTS.
München - Rosenheim, This is Salzburg - München (Protrain 17) and finally
München - Augsburg, This is ProTrain 32. This goes all the way to Stuttgart.
All are still available from Wizzard, combined price inclusive of DB-Tracks 35 EUR.
Apart from the vicinity of München Hbf, which lacks some Scenery, I do not think You miss out much compared to RW.
Approaching the Alps on my way to Garmish, I noticed a clear difference. Distant Mountains in OR means that the mountains in the distance does not stop abruptly halfway to the horizon.
OTTODAD was great at combining MSTS Routes. Maybe he could be persuaded to take a look?
We could do it the 'Steam' way. That is, distribution contains only the altered tiles and assets, and has to be copied on top of Your existing Route install. This ensures that all users have to buy and pay for the routes we use.
RE is a no go here, but I intend to try nonetheless.
Trees look rather simple and old.
Much more detailed trees are available and these could replace the existing ones, improving the look without altering any track work.
Buildings could be replaced by more detailed ones, just by replacing the shape files.
If there is interest, I will give it a go.
Step one, locate the trees I need to make it look better.
One snag only.
Steam Rules says that I am not allowed to post e-mail addresses, links, You name it. Anything that may divert the customer's attention away from Steam.
They may revoke my membership, rendering my whole RW Install useless.
So I can not invite Steam customers over here to see this post.
Me, I Like Being free.
OR does not monitor Your every move, they do not care how much You play or for how long, and they even accept bug-reports.
OR does not threaten You to remove Your OR Install if You do not behave like they want You to.
I would gladly pay for OpenRails, it's that good
The OR Team has decided to keep it freeware, so maybe we could use some of our money elsewhere:
I really think we need a working Route Editor for OR in order to get some of the users back.
Maybe a crowdfunded Route Editor was an Idea.?
In the meantime, if You are a little short of cash, You may be better off tracing these old MSTS routes for use in Open Rails.
This was my two cents, now I will just have to wait for feedback. Good or bad. Mostly good, I hope.
ChrisD
The three Routes are: München - Rosenheim (new) and München - Augsburg and München - Garmish Partenkirschen.
All three Routes adds up to a little shy of 90 EUR's.
They look nice, but when You get 10 Km's out of Munchen, its mostly trees, with needles.
Having seen the real CAB-Rides sent by Bahn-TV and some new, available on You-Tube, it seems to me that most trees around München are with leaves, not needles....
I started to think: this is all something I have seen before, so I went down memory lane.
Sure as little apples, all three routes are available for MSTS and I checked: all three Routes runs terriffic in Open Rails.
München - Garmish. Well, why not all the way to Innsbruck? It's called the Karwendelbahn in MSTS.
München - Rosenheim, This is Salzburg - München (Protrain 17) and finally
München - Augsburg, This is ProTrain 32. This goes all the way to Stuttgart.
All are still available from Wizzard, combined price inclusive of DB-Tracks 35 EUR.
Apart from the vicinity of München Hbf, which lacks some Scenery, I do not think You miss out much compared to RW.
Approaching the Alps on my way to Garmish, I noticed a clear difference. Distant Mountains in OR means that the mountains in the distance does not stop abruptly halfway to the horizon.
OTTODAD was great at combining MSTS Routes. Maybe he could be persuaded to take a look?
We could do it the 'Steam' way. That is, distribution contains only the altered tiles and assets, and has to be copied on top of Your existing Route install. This ensures that all users have to buy and pay for the routes we use.
RE is a no go here, but I intend to try nonetheless.
Trees look rather simple and old.
Much more detailed trees are available and these could replace the existing ones, improving the look without altering any track work.
Buildings could be replaced by more detailed ones, just by replacing the shape files.
If there is interest, I will give it a go.
Step one, locate the trees I need to make it look better.
One snag only.
Steam Rules says that I am not allowed to post e-mail addresses, links, You name it. Anything that may divert the customer's attention away from Steam.
They may revoke my membership, rendering my whole RW Install useless.
So I can not invite Steam customers over here to see this post.
Me, I Like Being free.
OR does not monitor Your every move, they do not care how much You play or for how long, and they even accept bug-reports.
OR does not threaten You to remove Your OR Install if You do not behave like they want You to.
I would gladly pay for OpenRails, it's that good
The OR Team has decided to keep it freeware, so maybe we could use some of our money elsewhere:
I really think we need a working Route Editor for OR in order to get some of the users back.
Maybe a crowdfunded Route Editor was an Idea.?
In the meantime, if You are a little short of cash, You may be better off tracing these old MSTS routes for use in Open Rails.
This was my two cents, now I will just have to wait for feedback. Good or bad. Mostly good, I hope.
ChrisD