JonMyrlennBailey
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or does one need traffic lights at intersections to control automobile traffic?
Is there a way to make automated traffic STOP at stop signs?
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It is a railway simulator, you know. The traffic on the streets is just mobile scenery to make the background a bit more interesting. You could go all out and make some drivable vehicles and by placing the appropriate signals control their movement to mimic road traffic.
JonMyrlennBailey
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Very well, Martin, nixt the idea. I should worry more about my trains functioning satisfactorily. I once rode on the Amtrak California Zephyr and did see cars moving on highways out the window. Real railroads do operate in the real world with non-railway-related things going on around them. For example, I wish my Microsoft flight simulator, though it features working road vehicles, surface boats and ships, would furnish moving trains, people, animals and railroads as scenery on the ground below the flying planes and helicopters to make it more interesting.
I've heard it talked about before, but someday, we will have a PC/console World Simulator, with all kinds of interactive vehicles, machinery and animals to virtually jump into, mount, get in, get on, and drive, ride, operate, fly, cruise or sail all in the SAME game. This could be the kind of grand simulator game that the likes of N3V is cooking up behind closed doors over the next five years.
Imagine the following all human drivable and/or AI drivable/programmable within the same sim:
-space ships
-farm tractors
-earth movers
-army tanks
-submarines
-speed boats
-trains
-planes
-hand cars
-oil tankers
-cruise ships
-camels
-roller skates
-snowmobiles
-horses
-ox carts
-wagons
-mules
-cars
-motorcycles
-semi trucks
I've heard it talked about before, but someday, we will have a PC/console World Simulator, with all kinds of interactive vehicles, machinery and animals to virtually jump into, mount, get in, get on, and drive, ride, operate, fly, cruise or sail all in the SAME game. This could be the kind of grand simulator game that the likes of N3V is cooking up behind closed doors over the next five years.
Imagine the following all human drivable and/or AI drivable/programmable within the same sim:
-space ships
-farm tractors
-earth movers
-army tanks
-submarines
-speed boats
-trains
-planes
-hand cars
-oil tankers
-cruise ships
-camels
-roller skates
-snowmobiles
-horses
-ox carts
-wagons
-mules
-cars
-motorcycles
-semi trucks
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Ground control to Jon, you are fading, come down to earth. You would also have a puddle of molten metal and plastic where your computer was. Seriously, it's nice to dream as long as you keep a solid grip on reality. Today that means the state of the art CPU / GPU combo, If it can't do it, you'll have to put some of the wishes on hold.
cascaderailroad
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This is not a "Real" game ... it is a chincy train simulator, that has very limited capabilities at present.
JonMyrlennBailey
Well-known member
But it MAY grow to something big in the future. A prize pumpkin first starts out as a chincy seed.
:hehe:You might be interested in this here:
A blast from the past...
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/news_archive.htm
You'll see that people were talking about all kinds of stuff before pretty much like they are now.
There are interactive airplanes, boats, cars, people, trains of course, even horses if you want those. They are all train engines and use invisible track to make them move.
Have fun...
A blast from the past...
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/news_archive.htm
You'll see that people were talking about all kinds of stuff before pretty much like they are now.
There are interactive airplanes, boats, cars, people, trains of course, even horses if you want those. They are all train engines and use invisible track to make them move.
Have fun...
JonMyrlennBailey
Well-known member
I have already figured out how to make interactive helicopters fly on Trainz layouts with suspended invisible track. Can even make them land and take off too.
I will have to try a boat version for a lake or river on a RR layout.
I will have to try a boat version for a lake or river on a RR layout.