Realistic snow.

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:51 pm

A new download has appeared on train-sim.com supposedly giving 'realistic' falling snow, which from the screen shots looks pretty good. What I wanted to know is if anybody has tried it, how good is it really, are the files difficult to install (is it just overwriting old files, or altering them?) and are there any framerate issues? For various reasons i'm not able to test it out myself yet,

but would welcolm anybody's views.

nickaxon · Post by **nickaxon** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 6:13 pm

I've d'loaded but not yet installed. There's now a post on the train-sim forum which has a little feedback. Hope this helps.

Regards, Nick.

delticbob · Post by **delticbob** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:16 pm

I have the daytime files installed on Pat Daltons S & C Route.

If the link works there should now be a picture

<IMG width="841" height="585" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic.php/22422/Its Snow Joke.jpg">

or not.....

showing D1041 at Horton in a blizzard. Its early days yet but it does look the business. Something a 'still' picture can not convey.

You do get full installation instructions plus a choice of either light, medium or heavy snow.

Bob

OK, what am I doing wrong here....why no picture

ianm42 · Post by **ianm42** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:59 pm

Atomic Albums don't like spaces in the file names

http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic ... 20Joke.jpg

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:53 pm

At least post the picture Ian.

<IMG width="841" height="585" SRC="http://album.atomic-systems.com/showPic ... 20Joke.jpg">

I must say, it look's good.

Just going over the pond.

delticbob · Post by **delticbob** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:31 am

Ian, thanks for that tip.

I should have been able to suss that one out, but I get 'brain fade' [age]

Bob

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 2:35 pm

I think Sky! Conductor 2 does this better.

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:52 pm

dforrest wrote:I think Sky! Conductor 2 does this better.

What Brain Fade?

TOMMO79 · Post by **TOMMO79** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:23 pm

Theres an update/bug fiz abailable for sky conductor. Not many details on what it does though.

dforrest · Post by **dforrest** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 6:52 pm

TOMMO79 wrote:Theres an update/bug fiz abailable for sky conductor. Not many details on what it does though.

Where is it available?

The "fiz" should put some pep and sparkle in it!

.

peterdore · Post by **peterdore** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 8:45 pm

I Could never get Sky Conductor to work

Even the people that wrote program couldnt help either

pete

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TOMMO79 · Post by **TOMMO79** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 9:41 pm

http://www.howintheworld.com/downloads.shtml

Updates to version 2.6

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 2:50 pm

I've always had the precipitation set to off on my old system. Rain and snow have such a huge effect on frame-rate, and I honestly don't miss it now. Besides, after an hour and a half of snow on Marias Pass when I first got MSTS, I was feeling a bit woozey! It gets quite hypnotic after a while...

alan2 · Post by **alan2** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:04 am

Fodda wrote:I've always had the precipitation set to off on my old system. Rain and snow have such a huge effect on frame-rate, and I honestly don't miss it now. Besides, after an hour and a half of snow on Marias Pass when I first got MSTS, I was feeling a bit woozey! It gets quite hypnotic after a while...

Also has same effect after a couple of Pint's, then playing Msts.

nickaxon · Post by **nickaxon** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:52 pm

So, just to summerise, is it worth those of us with Sky Conductor 2 d'loading this new realistic snow? Would we see any improvement over what Sky Conductor already gives us? And if we do d'load, will we lose the realistic snow settings every time we change the Sky Conductor settings! (My brain's beginning to hurt.)

Regards, Nick.