Atomic Systems

rkk01 wrote:However, no reason to believe this isn’t in-game footage.

None at all, but...(if you'll forgive the editing of your post)

rkk01 wrote:clearly a promo vid, with excellent editing / production...

...so how close to what we'd actually see do we believe it is? The question has already been asked, "what level of hardware is needed to produce that?"--does the average TS user have that kind of equipment?

Squatch wrote:Not seeing many buttons on there that don't work are we.

Nope, but also we're not seeing many animated, interacting, figures are we?

Anyone tried this sim in vr?....its an incredible experience. Hopefully dtg will implement vr at some point, it really does transform the simming experience.

I think this example in DCS has one significant advantage over TS.. it's an aircraft carrier in the middle of the sea.
Imagine a TS/TSW station with this level of detail, animation and interaction - station staff talking to passengers, going about their business, realistic passengers arriving and wandering about and then boarding trains. Now imagine the camera pulls back and the station is in the middle of.. nothing. Just a flat landscape, no other buildings, no trees, no scenery. The track goes nowhere once it's passed the end of the platforms.
The scope of railway routes and the requirement for a LOT of surrounding scenery is a very significant factor.

DCS does look lovely though

As an aside, I've often thought about creating a TS diorama.. a small area (like a station or work yard) with an INSANE level of detail - hi-res textures, lots of animations, stuff you can get the camera within inches of and it would look amazing, but it would be like a very small model railway diorama - and just see how far TS could be pushed.
The reasons I've never done it are: mostly time(!), but also if I did it people would then ask "Well why can't a whole route be this good?!" and the answer would be because I'd used all of the available resources for an entire route in one tiny area!

Some interesting thoughts...

Regarding the “isolated” nature of an aircraft carrier vs the “connected” nature of a rail route - I’d always (perhaps naively) thought that most sims were coded similarly...?

i.e. assets outside of visual range are modelled in the “sim engine” and only assets within viewing distance are modelled in the graphics engine... most flight sims will still have an active environment away from the players immediate vicinity. Some of these will be scripted / triggered as a scenario progresses, the best though are fully dynamic with multiple friendly, hostile and neutral assets going about their business.

No matter how good the animation gets in TS2020 you can bet the passengers will still wander on the lines!

Regards,

Len

Just remember that is a "preview video". If Train Simulator is anything to go by, the end result will not be able to achieve anything near that quality. People get hyped up by things like that, can't wait to buy it, and then moan on forums as to how disappointed they are . . .

John

lenfish wrote:No matter how good the animation gets in TS2020 you can bet the passengers will still wander on the lines!

Regards,

Len

. . . and materialise out of thin air next to your cab at station stops!