Trainz Roadmap

Those of us from the earlier years have been asking for some basic improvements for Trainz for over twenty years. A proper skybox, prototypical precipitation and emissive lighting in night mode for scenery items (e.g. Streetlights) Any talk of improvements? Nope. None. Meanwhile that company that starts with D, is all over the show on these issues. Over twenty years. (nodding my head)
N3V did mention these things in the roadmap. When they, if ever, come to fruition is another matter.

What, you don't like light cones? :D
 
I'd love to vote - unfortunately there is some problem with e-mail verification, because I don't get any e-mail (I checked ALL folders, including spam, tried to search the message through phrases like "N3V", looked on my own, copy-pasted the e-mail address...). This is strange, because I receive all other e-mails from N3V. I tried a couple of times with no luck :/
 
I voted by real light sources and new enviromental features.
The gamechanger in my opinion will be the real lightning system. I want to use Trainz during the nightime!
A problem I have using Trainz at night when turning the head lamp on the engine and then the screen FPS gets choppy. I don't know if others have that problem. I don't have a high end video card but don't recall this happening back in the old Ttainz days.
I've got some middle of the night milk station runs to make and it's no fun traveling blind in between towns.
 
There was Something else I just thought of but I doubt it will make it in trainz as far as features go but, when any train whether steam/diesel or electric passes by the camera, the ground shakes.
You mean the ground where you are sitting? Back when TRS2004 was the new kid on the block, we would go to train shows and and do demos. By hooking up a big subwoofer to the sound system, every time a large diesel came close on the screen, everyone in the area could feel it.
 
You mean the ground where you are sitting? Back when TRS2004 was the new kid on the block, we would go to train shows and and do demos. By hooking up a big subwoofer to the sound system, every time a large diesel came close on the screen, everyone in the area could feel it.
Yes for the camera at trackside and some other angles, not just diesel engines that shakes the ground, steam and electric engines does it too, I just thought that having this feature if possible would add to the immersion and realism.
 
We used diesel engines because they were easier to drive on the screen. Steam engines would also have worked although I'm not sure how much infra-sonics they would produce, likewise for electrics which tend to be much quieter that either of the other two.
 
OK, MSTS had doppler effects before Trainz did. And MSTS routes were long and realistic unlike Trainz's early toy layout like looping routes. But Trainz has really advanced since then. But that D company's routes like the NEC ones and NJT ones look very realistic compared to Trainz versions. And some of those routes aren't fully modeled yet in Trainz especially the Philly to Newark, NJ section.
 
Most of those options did not interest me or I could not understand them - Nodex??? TNI??? And the hardware options - VR is overrated (I am assuming that VR means Victoria Railways, does it not?).

I did vote for the 3D paint preview and the separate window for surveyor tools. I will consider other options later.
 
From the image, I think VR refers to Virtual Reality, where in you don a special set of goggles and what you see is the image of the world inside Trainz as if you are one of the characters. Turn your head and your point of view changes accordingly. Some people find it very immersive, others get nauseous and dizzy.
 

You mean the ground where you are sitting? Back when TRS2004 was the new kid on the block, we would go to train shows and and do demos. By hooking up a big subwoofer to the sound system, every time a large diesel came close on the screen, everyone in the area could feel it.
Many years back, probably around 2006, I had a gaming chair with built in speakers and some rumble feature built in the back and seat. When running Trainz, you could crank up the bass frequencies in the chair that felt like you were sitting in the cab of a train, even when it was idling. That was pretty neat.
 
From the image, I think VR refers to Virtual Reality, where in you don a special set of goggles and what you see is the image of the world inside Trainz as if you are one of the characters. Turn your head and your point of view changes accordingly. Some people find it very immersive, others get nauseous and dizzy.
Yup VR is no good for me. I tried an Occulus VR headset and ended up passing out from vertigo. Immersive reality might be better. Imagine working in Surveyor and having the route appear like a model railroad layout in the room we're sitting in. When we enter Driver, the room is replaced by the virtual world. I know this is possible but the hardware requirements would be quite high, I think.
 
I think that that is what VR is supposed to do but while your eyes tell you that you are in Surveyor with your route all around you, your body is still in your chair, you feet are on the floor,etc. There is also a big disconnect between your eyes and your inner ears. Those disconnects are probably one of the reasons why some people have such a hard time with VR. What we need is "Better than Life" see Red Dwarf
 
I think that that is what VR is supposed to do but while your eyes tell you that you are in Surveyor with your route all around you, your body is still in your chair, you feet are on the floor,etc. There is also a big disconnect between your eyes and your inner ears. Those disconnects are probably one of the reasons why some people have such a hard time with VR. What we need is "Better than Life" see Red Dwarf
You hit the nail on the head. To add insult to injury, I have nystagmus and a difficult time keeping my eyes steady along with double-vision requiring prisms on my glasses. Combine that with having to look through the viewer and I'm a goner.
 
Yes, thanks for that but my comment about VR was "tongue in cheek". I should have added an emoji but that would have spoiled the effect :ROFLMAO:
Likewise whenever I see NS, I immediately think of Nederlandse Spoorwegen, :love: the Dutch rail network which is the busiest in the European Union, and the third busiest in the world after Switzerland and Japan. NS runs 4,800 scheduled domestic trains a day, serving 1.1 million passengers.
 
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