Scenery

[DescendingSadly]

How do you guys scenerise your routes? I really am hitting a brick wall with my route.

I find it hard to follow real life scenery with my route as a lot of the time, the track is high above ground level so from the train you can see from miles around. In real life you can see hills far away with dense towns and suchforth. This would be a FPS killer in RW though.


So how do I do it? how do I make it look like the scenery carries on as far as the eye can see without impeding on performance?

Thanks.

[moranb]

I don't think anyone has found an easy way of dealing with scenery as yet. I recall there was a discussion about this in the RS forum about a year ago - cannot track the topic down just now. For general country-side scenery, I use decals (approx. 400 x 400 meters) to more or less guide me in placing field boundaries and other major geographical features such as rivers and roads. In general, I locate scenery up to about 800 meters each side if there is a clear view from the tracks after which Iuse a mixture of trees, and tree lines to mask anything beyond that. In cuttings 3-400 meters is usually sufficient. A lot depends on how you want to use the simulator. If you mostly view the scenery from the driver's cab or passenger windows, you could reduce the the scenery distance from the track to a few hundred meters, especially if, as is mostly the case, the view is blocked by trackside vegetation. However, if you prefer 'birds' eye views' a wider expanse of scenery will be necessary. There are some short-cuts you can take - make a couple of fields with a mixture of hedge/bush and tree foliage and use the copy an paste function to to duplicate these , placing them at different angles to give some variety. But, its a slow process and its best to work consistently for an hour or two each session to avoid the boredom that inivitably happens, doing a few hundred meters at a time. It will eventually build up. I recently passed the sixty mile post on my Irish route on which I have been now been working for some 20 months. But there is still over a hundred miles to go!

BFM