10x10km Railway Project

[Al T.]

First of all this is a joint project between me and JohnV.

The map is 10x10km, and will feature a wide variety of features, however will have a focus on providing a realistic map for the first trains in RoR.

Here's a few we have planned:

-Suburban area featuring custom modular roads and houses
-A small village on the coast
-An Airport
-A forestry area
-Offroad trails
-A freight line
-A passenger line (suburbs to airport via village)

-JohnV will be taking care of all the heightmap and terrain detail, aswell as some of the objects.
-I will be busy making lots of custom objects, in particular a completely modular suburban set featuring roads, housing and railway items.

Not much to see at the moment but It will give you an idea how the terrain looks, and my custom suburbs so far.

Any sensible suggestions and comments would be great.

Thanks!

[0xsergy]

10mk^2. You might run into trouble with the rounding error on that.

[Al T.]

I don't know what you mean by that... but you have me worried now.

[bradman5505]

Trains + ROR = WinWinWin! Can't wait!

[0xsergy]

I don't know what you mean by that... but you have me worried now.

Try spawning something on Grenoble, for example. I don't want to get into the technicalities but if you do some searching you should be able to find an in depth explanation somewhere on the forums. Basically, as you get further away from the spawn point(may be the corner or the centre of the map, I do not remember) the vehicles node positions aren't calculated as accurately which first starts as a shaking of the nodes and could cause problems with things like triggers or commands. I, personally, haven't tested out 10km^2 so I'm not sure if it's still within the reasonable limits.

[Al T.]

Wait a minute, when i spawned my train, the doors nodes attached to commands seemed to wobble like jelly. This is on the corner of the map, so could it be due to the problem you descirbe. if it is, is there an easy fix?

[donoteat]

The port map is 10km by 10km; you shouldn't run into any rounding error problems.

[0xsergy]

Wait a minute, when i spawned my train, the doors nodes attached to commands seemed to wobble like jelly. This is on the corner of the map, so could it be due to the problem you descirbe. if it is, is there an easy fix?

Does it work normally on other maps?

[Al T.]

There is definetly something funny going on with the doors though, they shake violently on this map but not on the flat map.

I will test some other vehicles.

Oh and this map should hopefully show the alternative to poorly textured, poor fps, poorly designed sketchup urban maps. Not naming any names of course... This map will not have any sketchup objects, just Blender

[PrT Audiman]

There is definetly something funny going on with the doors though, they shake violently on this map but not on the flat map.

I will test some other vehicles.

due to Grenoble's size all vehicles shake violently on Grenoble, whenever i have made a big terrain however its never shaken a vehicle, so i wouldn't worry

[tdev]

the greater you are away from position (0,0,0) the less precise the simulation / display gets.

[Al T.]

Hmm, I think your right, as all the other vehicles I have tried worked perfectly, maybe just I need to fix my n/b a bit. Oh and Audiman, you keep spelling my name wrong in all your posts/videos, lol. :P

[0xsergy]

Hmm, I think your right, as all the other vehicles I have tried worked perfectly, maybe just I need to fix my n/b a bit. Oh and Audiman, you keep spelling my name wrong in all your posts/videos, lol. :P

Tell me about it.

Oxenergy

[PrT Audiman]

:F sorry my eyes have never been good

[Zsolti]

Awesome

[lcomotion]

Amazing!Cant wait!

Now need trains to the rails XD

[JohnV]

I am happy to cooperate with Al T. and we will do our best to make a great railway map. Currently the project is progressing smoothly, although I don't have much time these days. However, Al T. is helping a lot and many thanks to him Also, many thanks should go to World Machine creators for their awesome program for terrains

:F sorry my eyes have never been good

Haha! Don't worry, at least you got me right

the greater you are away from position (0,0,0) the less precise the simulation / display gets.

Really? Haven't noticed that at all. Quite dissapointing must say :/ At least is the difference hardly noticable on a 10km^2 map? (when you reach around 10kms away from the 0 point, for example)

[GE Dash-9 44 CW]

Might just be the pics, but it looks like the road is floating.

[bman777]

Will there be roads going to the towns if for whatever reason you don't want to use trains?

[Al T.]

Yes, hopefully a blender made, custom highway.

Also the roads are floating, however eventuallly every gap will be filled in, and the edges blended into the terrain. So it looks nasty now, but will look nice later... I hope....