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  • Simtrain SBB Re 460 und SBB Krokodil

    Zitat von Bobby

    Der blaue Allegra ist nun lieferbar: HIer
    Gruss Bobby

    An overpriced master piece of crap. 15 € for a repaint and some scenarios... Add 50 € for one one the worst TS route ever made! Trainsim.ch is for sure the worst TS developper. And they also have the highest prices. Keep away!
    TrainworX and Thomson have very good suiss rolling stock.

  • Heidi Express RailWorks

    Here is a small patch for Heidi Express, it will
    - Fix Ge 4/4 II light (the as Thomson Ge 4/4 III), the file which change the light is Ge44Head light.bin
    - Allow coupling with Thomson stock (some visual bug, short gap, mixed consist can derail at startup). Some files call namelike_coupling.bin
    - Change TimeOfDay to nicer Kuju. TimeOfDay folder
    - Change feldweg to a nicer one. JAW folder


    Unzip the file in a temp location and copy the Assets folder (or just the mod you want) to you railworks folder.



    Radius : light range. In exemple, 50 is 50 m. Can be reduced to 20
    Phi : open wide angle (some light). In exemple, 20 is 20°. Can be reduced to 15 or 10 to narrow light on side (and also up and down)
    Theta : open narrow angle (max light). In exemple, 6 is 6°. No need to change


    Those values are common


    Red, Green, Blue : RGB color. Max value 1 for each (max light). Min value 0 for each (no ligh). With 0.25, 3 times, it looks fine. Not too bright.

  • Heidi Express RailWorks

    My pleasure. I write *Fixed* when I have solved the problem by my self. :)



    So for now, I have replaced all the trolls by characters from LGVmed, changed the TimeOfDay, corrected the Ge 4/4 II over bright light, made coupling with Thomson possible (the gap bug and coupler glitch remain) and lowered track speed to avoid irrealistic turns and derailment.

  • Heidi Express RailWorks

    I have bought the Heidi Express for ~40 € (thanks to a colleague and a business trip)...


    Good :
    - It's looks far better than on the website (see pictures)
    - European Loco & Asset Pack is not required (so no *Kujuland* look but trolls and mutants invasion)
    - The Ge 4/4 II is really great : nice sound, delayed start up, power on sequence, excellent design, good features, physics seems fine, driver change cab.
    - The passenger cars are also fine (nice to see Grandpa and childs)
    - Ge 4/4 II and passengers cars are from the same developper who makes a very good job
    - Landscape is well made (and looks good with other ToD and weathers otherwise it looks ugly like all TS route)
    - The route have a nice situation and is pleasant : speed change, gradients, tunnels, bridges, viaducts, about 50 Km/h average speed (30 Km/h from Arosa are a bit boring/slow for me)


    Average :
    - Scenarios (about 20)
    - Track
    - Scenary can be nice (horses, cows, deers, sheeps, dogs)
    - Algera features
    - vR Vegetation
    - Nearly no flashy vegetation (some plant in summer at noon)
    - Freight wagons
    - Traffic on the roads


    Bad :
    - Track radius is far too short in some places and Thomson trains can derail !!! Ge 4/4 II is not affected but those too short curves for the track speed kill the simulation. It's really bad! See last 2 pictures where we are supposed to drive at 90 Km/h. 65 Km/h looks damn fast enough! (*Fixed*, see EDIT below)
    - Missing speed on hud and/or missing speed on track and/or on duty sheet => second simulation kill (Less an issue with lowered max speed).
    - No AI train in QD : you drive alone from A to B...
    - Alegra very poor design. She is so ugly that I did not drive yet and did not plan to do it.
    - Poor track rules (?) : in some stations with two or more tracks, track is single way (more tests needed to be sure). It did not help to build scenarios.
    - Track gauge is set to 0.92 not to 1 meter like Albula and Arosa (Thomson assets did not look as good on track when looking closer)
    - People on the platform look like escaped trolls from a video game from the early 90's (fixed => LGVMed characters)
    - Each troll have a 2.7 MB texture (2048x2048) !!! Yes, they are ugly like hell and take much more place than Kuju characters. About 55 MB for the monsters textures...
    - Ge 4/4 II light are too bright (fixed)
    - Visible LOD change for some trees
    - Some buildings, houses and trees disappear when you rotate the camera in outside view. They also *pop and unpop* from caview...
    - Coupling with Thomson Rolling stock not possible in scenario building (nearly fixed => change the link name from 2link to 3link but crash in QD and gap within mixed stocks is too short).
    - Default stock coupling is poorly made : link did not fit well for all rolling stock.
    - Some GeoPcDx grab their textures from several folder in very different location (really messy).
    - In Scenery folder, I found a copy of folder Vegetation (about 300 MB) in the folder Vehicles. LOL ! WTF... You say messy ?
    - Low res textures for some stuff/scenary
    - Some useless poor looking hi res textures (21 MB for some wagons)
    - Some areas lake of scenary
    - Some awful cars
    - Junk in files : DDS, PSD, BAK and TGA that the game engine DID NOT handle (also useless XML in Assets folder)
    - When all the junk, useless files and duplicated files are remove, you save about 500 MB.
    - The worst job I have ever seen for a TS route
    - Price, Price, Price


    It's shame that such a beautiful route is so badly made with flaws particularly hard to correct like curve radius. It did not worth the price... And dont expect any fix from simtrain.ch, they never fix the SBB1. Is that the Swiss quality ?


    EDIT : I have *fixed* the track speed/radius issue by editing track files and lowering any above 70 km/h speed to 65 Km/h. Ok, it's really *quick and dirty* but the job is done faster than by rebuilding Km of tracks... Now the route is much more pleasant to drive.

  • Train Simulator Screen-Thread (ersten Beitrag beachten !) - (Alt)

    Rhätische Bahn <3

  • Route stability enhancement pack from AP

    It's paradoxical to pay to remove features. It is even more paradoxal that AP often uses oversized textures in their own trains... So to make them run, they have to reduce other stuff.


    PS : I'am nearly sure they do exactly what I did for AS Koblenz Trier light weight texture pack : delete too big NM texture and rename the NMC to NM (or make a copy of the NMC into NM). DTG always uses about the sames assets, so reducing the assets from one route mostly works for some other ones. Not a bad idea but it should be a free patch.

  • [RSSLO] Allgäubahn Update

    *hi* Like Markus Schöbel says, we will work together to offer the best route upgrade rather than doing our own upgrades. For now, I'am very busy with my work but I will help as I can. Markus can use any part of any of my route patch. We can aslo use, mod and redistribute with a mod the Radiomaster vegetation (thanks once again to him to allow me to do this).


    This week end, I will try to work on a *easy to place gravel bed*. RSSLO always place tracks on grass and it makes the route unrealistic. My first project with a lofted item was to hard to use (it did not work with super elevation and catenary did not help the placement). I will test with a asset area and a horizontal texture.


    PS : Replacing Kuju 3D vegetation is also in my future plans. Doing this can patch any route with new 3D vegetation... I'am not a texture expert but retexturing the most commun Kuju assets (about 20 buildings and house) can make an old looking route far better.

  • 2D weather for QD

    My pleasure. I'm still testing to improve.


    You can use those weather for any scenario. Just select 3D Clear, 3D Rain, 3D Snow, 3D Foggy, 3D Cloudy.


    Sorry to paste a so big block of code, but it will be more easy to understand how it works.



    19 to 42 : setup for WeatherTypeClear
    43 to 66 : setup for WeatherTypeOvercast
    67 to 90 : setup for WeatherTypeRain
    91 to 114 : Setup for WeatherTypeStorm


    Those 4 weathers are kind of *sub-weather*. They can be mixed from one to an other like I did in lines 275 to 360, you just have to set the duration of each sub-weather. You can make snowing in a sub-weather and call it clear. But I think the name cannot be changed and must keep Clear, Overcast, Rain and Strom (not sure)



    Within a *sub-weather*, it's possible to set :
    - WindDirection : the direction of the Wind (I dont know the unit, it can be more than 1). It defines the diection of the clouds.
    - WindSpeed : the speed of Wind define the speed of the coulds in the sky
    - PrecipitationType : Rain, snow, sleet, hail : the kind of precipitation. They are defined later un the xm lfile
    - PrecipitationDensity : the density of precipitation from 0 (any) to max 1. Can not be higher than 1 or the game crash
    - PrecipitationSpeed : the speed of the precipitation from 0 (float in the air, 4 is fine for snow) to more than 40 (drop really fast; 30 is fine for heavy shower)
    - FogOverride : etrue or efalse the weather will tak over the ToD fog or not (the define the distance where the land fade to grey or dark)
    - FogColour : in RGB to set the color of the fog
    - FogStart and FogStop : I'm not sure it looks like 1000 and 3000 are fine and it means fog from 1 Km to 3 Km (or perhaps from 3 Km to 2 Km so 3000 - 2000). It's a bit hard to understand. Need more testing... A lot of files uses 500 and 1600 for clear weather and 400 to 800 for dark weather.
    - LightningDensity and LightningFrequency : those value seems no to work. I try a lot of value and never get any Lightning. :(
    - BlendInTime : time to blend the sky from one sub-weather to an other one (0 no transition, can change in *1 second* from clear to overcast with rain).
    - CloudType : the type of cloud defined lower in the XML file



    Parameters for a CloudType :
    - WispyLayerAlphaWispyLayerAlpha : alpha chanel for Wispy could, 0 : no visible, 1 : max visible
    - ThickCloudLayerAlpha : the same for bigger clouds
    - StormLayerAlpha : the same for overcast could
    - ColourDarkeningIntensity : light due to cloud : 0 no reduction, 1 max reduction


    Paramterd for a precipitation :
    - For now, I did not undersand well of it works. Not easy to check/test.
    - TextureID : is the texture used for the precipitation
    - Some value change the size of the precipitation and/or the direction.


    By changing those values, you can do a lot different weather and you can make change over time.


  • Train Simulator Screen-Thread (ersten Beitrag beachten !) - (Alt)

    *hi* The 2D weather for QD is available in test version. Here is some captures from a QD with rain weather... It goes from nice => cloud => rain => nicer => clear => dark => rain => clear (within 1 hour).

  • 2D weather for QD

    *hi* Hello,


    3D weather are handled by SilverLining and... I dont like them ! I never use them in scenario. Until know, I can't get them off QD. Now, it's done ! I have created or edited all the SL_weather (SL is for SilverLining weather) in Assets\Kuju\RailSimulatorCore\Weather. The 7 files from this beta patch will replace 3D SL weather by 7 2D custom dynamic weather. So you will have nice clouds, nice blue sky, and so on. Rain and snow can be... very intensive! Sky color will change, view distance will change, the day can nearly turn into night do to rain or snow. Even more static weathers have variations.


    1/ Backup the folder Assets\Kuju\RailSimulatorCore\Weather
    2/ Extract the 7 files from Weather.7z and paste them into Assets\Kuju\RailSimulatorCore\Weather


    Picture from a QD with 2D weather


    Note : It's impossible for me to test all weathers in all seasons for each time for each route... I have try all off them in Allgaubahn in summer and winter at 14h. The only bug I found is during snowing : it looks like from time to time the snow stop and restart (or like the weather was shacken). Any feadback is welcome.



    LIMITATION : Those weathers work ONLY with my RSSLO and RSC/DTG patchs : http://rail-sim.de/forum/wsif/…egory/147-Bugfix-Patches/ If a route don't use Kuju skies, this mod have no effect. :( I will keep on searching about a solution...

  • [RSSLO] Allgäubahn Route - Kempten - Lindau (Immenstadt-Oberstdorf)

    It is a nice road on which it is pleasant to ride. The layout itself is really nice with turns, gradients and speed changes. The route is rather long and splits in two directions.


    The scenery is detailed in some place but some area looks very empties. RSSLO have some good custom assets but they still use too much old ugly Kuju houses and buildings.


    The color palette is nice, we have not too much radioactive vegetation. Curiously, RSSLO started using old Kuju 3D trees. With my RSSLO patch, I found the route nice.


    The track is laid on the grass without gravel bed on the side. This makes the route unrealistic. RSSLO had done very well the track on the TauernBahn. Why not here ?


    The track rules and the signal handling is as worth as on other RSSLO tracks. You can only do basic scenario. Most signals stay red after a train pass them.


    The BR 245 is a *clone* of the BR 285. She works fine and have the same pro and cons.


    The Dostos have a really poor sound. I will replace RSSLO Dosto by other Dosto (vR or DTG).


    It is not a bad purchase.

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    Rsslo have made a nice route. :)


    I have just found how QD weather works. I have replace all 3D weather from Rail SimulatorCore with 2D weather. The pictures come from a QD with now sky that suits my likes.

  • Train Simulator Screen-Thread (ersten Beitrag beachten !) - (Alt)

    Von London Victoria nach Brighton mit der Class 460. :love: Ich habe während der Reise ein wechselndes Wetter mit zwei Winterregenzeiten geschaffen. :)