10.000 Baseboards, Whats the trainz limit?

azurerail

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Hi,

I have been wondering, What is the realistic maximum amount of baseboards ever used in Trainz?. These day's games are getting to the point of being able to incorperate 500 even 600 KM of game play Terrain for players to explore!. These games to my knowlege use a simple system of only loading Immediate Sections that the player can see and leaves the rest out of ram untill the players view gets to a point of seing beyond the current section, and then loads the new section in to ram, as the player enteres the new section the Previouse section is slowly Decompiled just out of sight of the user and then dropped from ram. With trainz i have been trying to understand how the game treates Base boards and if trainz will pack in if one were to create a Ridiculouse 10.000 base boards and just happen to create a realistic representation of say "New south wales state of Australia" and used trans dem to generate all of those base boards, then realistically detail those baseboards to perfection?. Trainz has continually facenated me by how it Amaizingly creates that world of wonder and lets us dream up all kinds of creativity of landscapes so Realistically that i could see what its like to have a Trans Australia VFT Route and my Block of land be its East coast station (I wish, Id be a Millionare). Point of this post is what are Trainz Possible limits with how big a route could possibly be Created, or could one really create a 10.000 Square Baseboard route and trainz be ok to run this? (Even if our PC could not handle it? and we went to a nasa super Computer?). Id love to hear everyones Thaughts on trainz limits and who hase done an Extreeme route.


Thanks Everyone! Best from- Azurerail
 
There is no limit to the number of boards and the number of boards has no effect on performance. The only 'limit' is the maximum file size your operating system can open, and that limit will apply to the 'gnd' file in your route's folder.

The processing load in Trainz comes from the content used, but since Trainz can balance the amount of content loaded between the draw distance and the computer's resources the practical 'limit' is imposed not by how much route can the program handle, but by how much route can a route-builder build....

Andy
 
Perhaps it my PC, but my 10,000 plus baseboard route takes @ 5 minutes to save a session or route edit.

It's approaching Autumn in Antarctica
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10,000 base boards indeed!.......I suspect you've been sipping distilled potato mash!
However, considering the location where you presently hang your hat, that number almost sounds reasonable.
After all, it isn't like the nite life there compels you to desert your Trainz.
I Googled that place your at............looks like your in for a long winter.............plenty of time to decorate those 10,000 boards......
Good luck and Regards
 
Take a look at the ECML route, I hate to think how many boards are in that one, I'd bet it is a good few thousand.
What do they teach in the schools these days when a person has to Google Antarctica? :wave:
 
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