The new Beta release of the route with all the optimizations and changes that was become necessary after the publication of the beta 4 is under testing.
I would say that the situation seems to have definitely improved, and the critical points of the previous version eliminated. In general, the route is more fluid, occupies much less resources in critical areas of the Turin hub, and the landscape has been optimized in some areas that seemed unfinished from the train cabin. ... continue reading »
New assets that support the Turin-Bardonecchia route have been included in the projects section. ... continue reading »
The new Release of the pack Buildings is available for download here.
The new contains some additional models created during the cleaning phase of the Porta Nuova and Lingotto station to reduce the demand for memory and graphical resources. ... continue reading »
After I discovered the two main reasons of memory problems and where to investigate, I finally worked on several factors. The Orbassano yard, and the stations of Porta Nuova and Lingotto have a lot of tracks, that in simulation are maybe useless, in the sense that they are hardly necessary even for a complex scenario. […] ... continue reading »
As anticipated in the post “And then?” the first part of the extension of the Torino-Bardonecchia route is almost completed. A long testing movie of the new extension can be found here in the Video section. ... continue reading »
New Static Rolling Material Pack available for download. You can find it here.
The pack incudes a number of low poly models to be placed in large yars or stations to make the experience more realistic, without heavily affecting system resources and performance. ... continue reading »
Although the route is still to be completed, it is time to begin making available the assets specifically created for this wide project. Starting today, I will begin to upload assets that are ready and stable for publication. Only the last active release will be retained in the download section, while the previous ones will […] ... continue reading »
To deeply explore the problem of too high memory usage, I used a short scenario between Collegno and Torino Porta Nuova, so that I quickly tested variations. The tests had the target to compare: A) Initial situation B) Track and terrain only C) Like B + lofts and roads D) Like B + Scenery This […] ... continue reading »
Solved the frequent crash problem caused by the signal script, next step is to understand and reduce the memory usage. First point to check is how much memory RAM is used during a standard scenario to make a zero point and see which areas are or may be critical. All the tests are run from […] ... continue reading »
The scripts of the new signals are over and after a test phase, I can confirm that they are doing their job and the aspects are correctly represented. In some cases new features have also been added that in the previous signals were not fully functional. To prevent touching existing assets and routes, which have […] ... continue reading »
