Oregon Pacific and Eastern in TS12

[frogpipe]

Just for fun, a slide show of the "Yard Cam" shots, showing the progress.

http://s1172.photobucket.com/user/PA626/slideshow/Trainz/OP and E/Cottage Grove Yard

 

[boyerm25]

2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Nvida Geforce 320M
4GB Ram
Mac OS X 10.6.8

My specs do appear to be worse than yours, Dual Core vs Quad Core, 2.4 GHz vs 2.8 GHz, and 4GB Ram vs. 6GB ram, maybe it's your graphics card.

 

[frogpipe]

Or that you have a Mac, and therefore the equivalent (if I'm not mistaken) of TS10 ported to OS X. I'm not this is comparing Apples to Cow Dun... I mean Oranges.

 

[boyerm25]

Yeah, that could be it, but
(A) TS:Mac has the TS2010 content, yes, but also the TS12 game engine, so I'm effectively running a version of TS12 with the TS2010 content
(B) AFAIK TS2010 has the same FPS as TS12 (on the same route)

 

[frogpipe]

Cottage Grove starting to grow up around the yard

Yet another angle on the Yard
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[sawyer811]

Hmmm...mind if I weigh in?

Dual-vs.-quad core doesn't really mean anything. Trainz can only use 2 cores anyway. I've got 8GB on my machine, but I don't think an extra 2GB would be an issue...

I do see that you've crammed the yard with high-poly rolling stock, plus the simulatortrain track splines...and those dinorius_redundicus. My framerates drop like a rock in a similar way in the rebuilt Greenwood on my Highland Valley modification route. I still think the TS-series game engine doesn't handle lotsa polys in a small space well. that may be what your issue is.

...anyway, enough blathering. back to the show folks (and nice work so far! I like the "A-No.1 Cam"!!)

 

[frogpipe]

Thanks!

Funny thing is, once I stripped the surrounding hills of the trees, performance was "normal" again. Even after I added more local scenery.

I think I'm going to keep going with my present plan - some trees up close and in the valley, and "paint" the hills to look tree covered.

 

[KenRuof]

Cottage Grove is looking nice so far frogpipe, keep up the nice vintage look.

 

[frogpipe]

Thanks!

More from today. Added "Cottage Grove Manufacturing" and "Cottage Grove Lumber Co." which were north of the yard as you headed out onto the mainline. The lumber company was on a wye which was the siding Shacks train was run off into when the "bo's" picked the switch stand lock and relined the switch. Getting side tracked and delayed was the set up for the crisis that followed, trying to "get in the hole" before the "fast mail came down through the junction".

Cottage Grove Manufacturing

Cottage Grove Lumber Co. (Mill)

The 19

Shot of the yard looking north, taken from atop a D&RGW boxcar

Cracker Cam: Cottage Grove tower and CG Manufacturing in the distance

Cracker Cam: Small Southern Pacific shed

Cracker Cam: Main Street, Cottage Grove, OR

Cracker Cam: Looking East back down the mainline

Cracker Cam: Lumber shed at CG Manufacturing

Cracker Cam: View of the neighborhood beside CG Lumber Co.
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Cracker, aka "Brakey", was the somewhat slow witted Brakeman on "Shack's" train in Emperor of the North.

 

[frogpipe]

One more, just for fun.

I don't think the Daylight ran in the 30's, or that it ran up the Siskiyou line, but if it did - it might have looked a bit like this.

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[KenRuof]

One's got to have a little extra fun...

 

[frogpipe]

Yes indeed!

Here's todays fun, the passenger consist from EOTN - well, close enough for me anyway. I'll be reskinning the 2-8-0 for OP&E later, right now it's my M&Pa reskin at the head end.

 

[DELETED-6YZHbwBrrJjnpcj]

Looks good so far, nice pics. :wave:

 

[kknobl]

I know this is an old thread, so apologies for bumping it, but where did you get the model of OP&E 19?

 

[Duke1234]

Sorry for the bump, is this project dead in the water or are you still plucking away at her?

 

[GP502011]

why would you bump a thread that has been dead twice. Obviously the project is dead.