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[Fisherboy]

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Every time I run open rails now this happens whenever I run a train. This never used to happen but now all of a sudden this happens on every route. Can anyone inform me on what the problem may be and/or how to fix it?

[geepster775]

Your camera is set to excessive zoom (via the mouse scroll wheel) and you are looking farther down the track than the LOD shift is set at for that particular model. Remember, these are MSTS compatible loco models, where the designer had to drop off most of the below frame details to keep MSTS stable. When you buy Open Rails compatible rolling stock, more details remain and the LOD shifts are hardly noticeable.

[Fisherboy]

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Ok I see what your saying. Everything looks fine up close, is there anyway to take excessive zoom off or do I have to work with what I have?

[geepster775]

Scrolling the mouse wheel. You also have the ability to reset every camera view back to its default by pressing CTRL 8 when in each view

[Fisherboy]

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Thanks that helped me solve the problem. Sorry this is my last question though lol, is the skydome supposed to interfere with the route that way as shown in the image?

[Erick_Cantu]

Your camera is set to excessive zoom (via the mouse scroll wheel) and you are looking farther down the track than the LOD shift is set at for that particular model. Remember, these are MSTS compatible loco models, where the designer had to drop off most of the below frame details to keep MSTS stable. When you buy Open Rails compatible rolling stock, more details remain and the LOD shifts are hardly noticeable.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

It's honestly because most of us just didn't think about it too hard, we just entered whatever numbers seemed reasonable and called it a day because creating LODs is extra work. I don't think I even started A/B comparing LODs at different distances to determine the optimum switching point until about 2009 or so. We also just kind of assumed that players wouldn't be zooming in very far.

It sounds like there's talk about tying LOD changes to the size of the object on screen, rather than the distance, with some computation to make it back-compatible. That will solve a lot of problems.

In response to the last question - try increasing your view distance. It looks like your world is fading from view before it can cover up the parts of the skydome that are meant to be hidden.

[Fisherboy]

lol yea I tried that it still does the same thing. When the game first starts everything is good but then things slowly start to fade away right in front of you.

[Vince]

This looks like on the Experimental Tab you have checked 'Automatically tune settings to keep performance level'.

Please, in the future attach a copy of the OpenRailsLog.txt file with a bug report.

The Logging option on the Open Rails opening screen needs to be checked and will place the log on your desktop every time OR is run. The previous log will be over written!

Guaranteed this problem would have been solved with the first reply to your complaint. Saves time, frustration and forum bandwidth.

regards

[Fisherboy]

thanks that did the trick