Open Rails Rendering Issue

[advut]

Hi, I have some scenery drawing issue in Open Rails. It doesn't render distant scenery well. In many routes there are glichy scenery like that in the attached picture. Mountains and stuff at far away doesn't render correctly. Now I think this is because scenery doesn't exist at there but MSTS has fog which hides it. OR doesn't have that so it shows the error.

I have set draw distance at 10km but this doesn't help. OR version is x3288. Do you have this issue? Attached picture is
set in the default Orient Express route of MSTS. Am I missing some settings?

Open Rails Error.jpg

[OTTODAD]

To avoid seeing fog in the distance make sure that all MSTS route's *.TRK files show this in them:
Mountains ( 00000001 ) and your ORTS Options show this:

[advut]

No..no I am talking about lack of fog or so. Just see the picture. Mountain in the distance is completely broken!! Do you have this error in your installation of OR? It's at Ozthal in that default MSTS route Innsbruck - St.Anton.

[geepster775]

Those tiles just don't exist in the route. Given the set-back nature of the tall mountains, there just wasn't enough tiles included during the route building process to make the mountains continuous. The route has no distant mountains, nothing in the Lo_tiles directory, which if they had existed, would have disguised the jagged tear a little better.

[OTTODAD]

Fog ?

That's what ORTS shows in this route !



This in my MSTSBin DB-TRACKS-MINI:

[plethaus21]

geepster is right, it's just a missing tile. Well, not missing as that implies it was misplaced - it was just considered unnecessary by the route's creator, as you can see in MSTS the lower draw distance hides the missing terrain data.

As well, there are no distant mountains (lo_tiles.)

[advut]

Thanks, everyone understood me. Now is it possible to make OR hide that missing data somehow? Setting low draw distance makes other problems. I would be happy if it just displayed like OTTO's msts screenshot.

[Vince]

No fix really. Unless your sense of adventure includes the RGE to add the tiles and the RE to plant trees.
MSTS display distance was 2Km max. so you could set the OR view distance the same when you run this route.

re:OttO's screen. The 'good' one is MSTS screen.
regards,

[OTTODAD]

Adding new tiles to a route and Populate them is easy, but using DEMEX to add Distant Mountains is not, real or invented ones, having done the latter to the Marias Kootenai, my GS-X and Jim Ward's Port Ogden routes !

But all that is now a complete waste of time as there is no current Trains Simulator or a W.I.P. version which can compete with this one, constantly being improved and to get a UE4 version next year !

It is also capable of using my versions of DB-Tracks, Marc Nelson's SR-Tracks and Raildumper's Camber tracks !

[kraus]

There is an update to this route in the library that adds distant mountains.

Microsoft Train Simulator - Routes
MSTS Distant Mountains

Name: dm_oe.zip
Size: 1,090,575 Date: 01-21-2002 Downloads: 3,047

MSTS Distant Mountains for Insbruck-St. Anton Orient Express Route, v0.9. Includes all terrain files needed to display Distant Mountains on the Insbruck-St. Anton route. By John Stanford.

[advut]

Ok...I guess I will have to live with MSTS + OR combo for now. Some routes don't have this problem or at least in a much smaller scale. Railworks won't cut it but there is that sim from crosstie studios upcoming.

[OTTODAD]

Railworks won't cut it but there is that sim from crosstie studios upcoming.

Railworks does not cut it for you but does for me and thousands of others who have downloaded Freeware add-ons for it from my web site !

I have been aware of Crosstie since it has been mentioned in forums and appears to be light years away releasing another GAME, one can only play but not create routes for or modify it as easy as can be done with TS-2016 !

[advut]

@smersek Thank you. I will look into it. Maybe this will at least solve this routes problem.

[OTTODAD]

Thanks, Sam, but still prefer my MSTSBin DB-Tracks version of it !




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