Will Catenary look better in MSTS-X

[8points]

...than that ridiculous stuff in MSTS?

I haven't seen any screenshots, anyone have any?
If you want to see catenary what is catenary, get "Birmingham X-City South" for BVE.

[USRailFan]

>...than that ridiculous stuff in MSTS?

Hopefully

[keber]

Lets hope at least something like this? :9

http://www.zusi.de/zusi3/oberleitung2.jpg

[OTTODAD]

Hi Gregor !

I sure hope that MSTS-X is going to look heaps better than that and at least as good as these scenes from the BVE-4 UK Birmingham Cross route ! ;-)

O t t o

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/117880.jpg
http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/117881.jpg

[RedDeath]

if you ask me.. its going to look WAY better than any of those... remeber how crappy flight sim looked before? now look at it.. its amazing... There is a little teaser pic on the micrsoft train simulater site... have any of you even looked at it? Its absoulutly amazing

[muskokaandtahoe]

Dunno if you've noticed the KRS screen shots but the last one I saw showed the overhead wire as being curved. Not the line of poles mind you but the wire over the track. Same radius.

[b]Dave Nelson
SLW Route Design: The Cal-P, 1950.[b]
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/Dancing_Genma.gif
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/4ad3d633.jpg

[OTTODAD]

Hi Tyler !

Do you mean this ?

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/117946.jpg

I need to see a lot more before I am impressed ! ;-)

O t t o

[8points]

>Dunno if you've noticed the KRS screen shots but the last one
>I saw showed the overhead wire as being curved. Not the line
>of poles mind you but the wire over the track. Same radius.
>
>[b]Dave Nelson
>SLW Route Design: The Cal-P, 1950.[b]
>http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/Dancing_Genma.gif
>
>http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/4ad3d633.jpg

No, I don't recall seeing any KRS screenshots with catenary, but if it follows the track radius like MSTS, I'll scratch it off my list (and hope that Microsoft does better).

I poked around their site but didn't see any shots with catenary. Do you have a link?

Thanks,
8points

[OTTODAD]

Some were posted in forums, guys taking pictures from monitors running KRS at the LEIPZIG show, which were not very impressive to say the least !

Here is a thread which has a link to one web site
http://www.clubskill.com/gamepage/2235
which has some pictures at the bottom of the page, but can not see any catenary wires in any of them !

http://forums.flightsim.com/ts/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=27&topic_id=671&mesg_id=671&listing_type=search

Funny, but catenary does not appear in any of my English dictionaries either ! ;-)

O t t o

[Company Notch]

>Hi Tyler !
>
>Do you mean this ?
>
>http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/117946.jpg
>
>I need to see a lot more before I am impressed ! ;-)
>
>O t t o
>

Just for the record, that image on the Train Simulator main site is a digital image I shot of a pair of GRS searchlight signals down on the BNSF's Oregon Trunk line in Bend, Oregon. In other words, it's an image of a REAL railroad scene.

You can see the original, uncropped image here:
http://www.pbase.com/rselby/image/63563321

One should not infer anything from this image - it's just one of many I shot while out railfanning under the full moon that evening back in 2004. We needed an image for the website and decided to use this one since we (I) own the rights to use it.

While I'm confident that the new TrainSim will look really good as compared to the other products out there, I don't want anyone to have expectations for total photo realism. That level of detail might take us a few more versions.... :-)

-Rick

Rick Selby
Lead Game Designer
Microsoft Corporation

http://yardlimits.spaces.live.com

[muskokaandtahoe]

http://forums.flightsim.com/vbts/up1/117979.jpg

Next time when quoting could you do a bit better at snipping out unneccessary text? Thx.


[b]Dave Nelson
SLW Route Design: The Cal-P, 1950.[b]
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/Dancing_Genma.gif
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/muskokaandtahoe/Avatars/4ad3d633.jpg

[lnghairedwizard]

Assuming the Graphics engine is up to it, I think myself or others could probably model signals that could look that good....just a matter of creating an appropriately detailed model and either using large photo-textures or "composite" textures (ie: photo textures that are processed and/or partially hand-painted):)


Bill Bzak

www.lhwfoundries.com