New Route WIP

Chris, any idea with how to make the lights stop flashing at a later distance than when the barriers goes up and if possible for the lights to start flashing before the barriers lower as I have mentioned in last reply.

I think you want 200 not -200 for the lights to stop flashing after the barrier reaches vertical.

It's counter-intuitive, but the offset in the StateFunction must always be the inverse of that in the position command.

Timing wise, there's nothing much that can really be done other than running through the animation a few times, and picking start and end distances that look right at your expected linespeeds.
The problem is that there's no way to share a result between two different functions

Cheers

Chris Lees

http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk

With 200 it stops flashing as it passes through the crossing. When I change it to -200 it stops flashing at the same time as the barrier raise and if I change it -300 it does the same as -200. I thought it should be -200 going by what you have said about the trackdistance values.

This is the code for flashing lights and I am changing the second distance value:

Code:

[Object]
Position = 16.77,-1.99,-210.2
States = ..\..\Crossings\red_1.csv,..\..\Crossings\red_2.csv,..\..\Crossings\off.csv,
StateFunction = if[trackDistance > 287 | trackDistance < 200,2  ,if[section==0, 2,mod[value +1, 2]]]
RefreshRate = 0.5

I been working on the car park on the other side at the first station and also I have been working on my first non railway related building which is now completed.

Work is continuing on the car park with one section finished except for some bushes along the front edge.

Been working on the next section of the car park with much of it completed.

Matt, If you're after vehicles to populate the car park etc there's plenty here:

http://www.bve-terminus.org/freebies/

I probably be after vehicles. but I do that a later stage. Thanks for those on the link you provided though I will need different types of car that are not on that page though I will have find some textures for that.

Apart from some waiting shelters the section of the car park I have been working on is completed.

Nice work. As a Brissy boy myself it would nice to drive a local route on OpenBVE. But gee, they must have tarted up Ferny Grove station since I was last out there in the 1990s. Back then it was almost like going bush.

Thanks for the interest. And yeah the station is completely different to how it was with barely a tree left.

I completed those waiting shelters I mentioned that I needed to do.

Those objects are looking really well!

Thanks, good to hear that. I have now finally finished the car park, I have also added some trees and also added part of the road that will follow the railway. Next I need to finish off the area with some more trees and some houses.

Very high quality work. I wait with anticipation!

Thanks, I am glad you like it. Actually its only been 8 months since I built my first objects, though I have done some very basic route building for the last 2 years. But seeing that content over here is basically dead and I thought it was about time to change this. It's good that there is interest because I am only going to release this if there was interest. However that is at least several months or more away depending how much of the route I am going to include in the first release. But when ever that is, it is probably going to be the first Australian narrow gauge route released for Openbve and the first route based on a line in the state of Queensland.

I have added some side streets to one side of the station along with a grass ground. I also have built 4 houses along the road beside the station with more to be added to the rest of the road.

Added two more houses along the road.

 

I have built another 7 houses along the far end of the carpark which was where the line started before a major upgrade of this station a few years ago. The track which was just a single track siding was removed in that upgrade.

I have added townhouses to other side of the carpark along with some trees. I have added the remaining roads (including up a hill) at the very start of the route but I have not added the houses yet. Using Forest Builder I have added a forest behind and beside the townhouses which needs some more work when I use a few more textures to make it look a bit more varied. However I am considering whether to continue to add forests in this way or use a hand build object instead.

I have now completed the left hand side of the first 400m of the route up to the level crossing. The remaining trees have been added to that area and also the remaining details to the road next to the station including power lines, street lamps and traffic signals. I have also done some work on the forest using a greater variety of textures but that still in progress in making it dense without overdoing the number of textures. Next will be to add the rest of the houses to the other side which might not be as quick to do.

Looks well in the pictures. How many km is completed so far??

Thanks. Only the first 400m at the start of the route on the left side is complete. And the other side is next to be worked on before I can finally progress out of the first station. After the first station I have laid the track, added gradients, signals and lineside signs for a distance of 4km but most details have not been added. Most of that work is done with just some point motors and a different style of signal post required. 4km with 3 stations is probably as far as a first release would go depending on how it progresses.

Work has resumed on the other side (right hand side) of the first station on adding the rest of the houses. So far two sets of townhouses have been built comprising of 12 townhouses and 5 garages. As the road on this side of the station is not a main road a smaller street lamp has been made and added to some of the road.


Left side of the first station facing forwards.


Left side of first station facing backwards.