Some Open Rails Questions

[advut]

Hi

I don't really like OR day sky colours. It's quite pale. Is there a config file or something that can be edited for a better saturated sky plus more defined clouds?? I've tried Kosmos which made it far more ugly!

Also, is there a way to increase distant fog without affecting sky? <Shift + => affects both. MSTS has nice distant fog which hides portions of routes which has no scenery. Open Rails can't do this and shows torn apart tiles which kills immersion.

Another thing is OR produces bad echoing, distorted sounds when trains take moderate to large turns. This happens when using external camera 2 or 3. Why?

[ckawahara]

Try this..

https://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?324103-Textures-of-sky-and-starts-at-night&highlight=Sky+textures

Using the search tool is a good thing to learn to use.

[advut]

But its for night sky! My problem is day sky. Which file is it?

[longiron]

SkyDome.png in your Content folder in Open Rails

[R. Steele]

If this is about your day sky question, look in the Content folder (inside the Open Rails program folder) for two png files, named clouds and skydome. These files can be modified or altered to just about anything you desire. Just keep to the size and format. I believe the skydome can be made bigger without much disruption.

Kosmos is not fully supported, yet, by OR - the skies will appear very weird.

And in the case of OR - most every question can be answered by using the searchable manual that is downloaded with the program, or available on the OR site.

[advut]

Thanks, I found them and tried to edit. But the end result is not good, sky is not smooth any more. Will need to try again later. BTW I use OR vX3445. Now, can you help in getting a MSTS like distant haze in OR which will hide end of terrain tiles?

[baldwin]

Pressing SHIFT and = will bring fog in towards you, SHIFT and - will move it away.. Everything that can be done in OR with the keyboard can be found either in Options/Keyboard, or by pressing F1 in game.

[advut]

I know that. What I want is to bring the fog closer to me without affecting the sky.

[baldwin]

I don't think that can be done until OR can run MSTS environments.

[muskokaandtahoe]

OR can use MSTS environments, tho I don't understand why anyone would want to. See the Options tabs... its there somewhere.

[baldwin]

OR can use MSTS environments, tho I don't understand why anyone would want to. See the Options tabs... its there somewhere.

While it can, it cannot use them in the same way as MSTS does, and as for Kosmos, forget all about that in OR.

[OTTODAD]

As for Kosmos, forget all about that in OR.

All it needs is to make the Kosmos blue sky color lighter and the white clouds brighter, it here using the MSTS Environments option in its Experimental Options !

[baldwin]

You have to admit though, those are some mighty strange looking clouds. It might be caused by the way the skydome is done.

[OTTODAD]

You have to admit though, those are some mighty strange looking clouds.

Created by ORTS !



What I would like to see in ORTS are Environments with an appearance somewhere in between those I have shown and its water to look like the one I have configured for my MSTSBin environments, ORTS has nothing to compare with !

[OTTODAD]

Increasing the nVidia GTX 560Ti GAMMA setting has improved the appearance of this Kosmos sky in ORTS but has also lightened other colors in this route running, on the Desktop and in other applications !

It can be done in the ORTS code if one of their team knows how to do it only for the ORTS MSTS Environments !