L&PS ( Canada )

wacampbell · Post by **wacampbell** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:55 pm

Boxcab L1 coming out of the morning mist on the London & Port Stanley (Ontario, Canada).

http://www.lnps.info

Gingerme · Post by **Gingerme** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:04 pm

WoW!!

What computer specs do i need to run that??

wacampbell · Post by **wacampbell** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:50 pm

The route runs well on most computers. 20 FPS in this scene with all sliders maxed on a recent vintage computer. It also runs well on my slower 2GHz laptop if I back visibility down to 500m and turn off dynamic shadows.

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:39 pm

The route is extremely cleverly built, it uses every trick in the book to get max detail in and max framerates out. I think every routebuilder should download this route and see what the author did and just copy him, then we can all have superb looking routes running at 25fps.

Martin

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:42 pm

saddletank wrote:then we can all have superb looking routes running at 25fps.

I'll second that

Lovely screenshots by the way

RobertM

kieranhardy · Post by **kieranhardy** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:51 pm

Amazing route and screenshots.

I just looked at the gallery, are those pictures from Train sim?

If so Wow

wacampbell · Post by **wacampbell** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:18 pm

Kieranhardy, the images on the gallery page of my website are not screenshots ( unfortunately ). They were generated by exporting the MSTS models to PovRay ( http://www.povray.org ). The images here and elsewhere on the web site are all screen shots however.

Thanks all for the kind comments.

PHIGUI · Post by **PHIGUI** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 7:48 pm

WOWWWWW

Absolutely splendid !

Please, could you post more (and why not, bigger ) screenshots of this marvelous route ?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

wacampbell · Post by **wacampbell** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:49 am

Pleased to oblige:

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 12:28 pm

wacampbell wrote:Pleased to oblige:

What's so impressive about this route is the telephone wires. They are perfect - not only do they look like real 3d wires (rather than some kind of alpha channel) but there are many of them and every one is a perfect fit to the insulators, even when the poles march up and down embankments and up over bridges etc. How the guy had the patience to lay 20+ miles of these I have no idea. Fantastic modelling and route building.

Martin

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:14 pm

That route is very impressive

Has anybody else noticed how similar the water reflections in the POVRay renders are to the development shots from TMTS?

Dan

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:21 pm

The Lost and Presumed Sunk

This is one quirky railway which I've read up on.

Not seen any screenshots until now.

Will have to download it as it's clearly a very well made route as has been said

PHIGUI · Post by **PHIGUI** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 10:45 pm

hello,

thanks for the second post
Still amazing !
I'm also impressed ( among other things ) by the telephone wires which are not rectilinear ... and by the road edges, which are not straight.

A master piece !

RobertM · Post by **RobertM** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:00 am

I just keep thinging it's TRAINZ, because of all the detail that you don't find in many MSTS routes

RobertM

dkightley · Post by **dkightley** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:46 am

I suggest anyone who questions the capability of MSTS's graphics to download this route and take a look.

Some locations look photorealistic, and as Martin has said, the attention to detail is fantastic....