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BVEStation => BVEStation Network News => Topic started by: ipac on January 23, 2011, 09:38:53 pm

Title: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 23, 2011, 09:38:53 pm
Hey everyone, 7zip formats are finally online for our cross-platform users.  You can now download and extract the files instead of needing a Windows based PC to extract the files.  The 7zip formats are also smaller in size due to 7zip's high compression, so if your internet is slow today, you can use the 7zip format.

The Southbound G route has also been updated.  The installer has been replaced with the new nullsoft installer.  The Southbound G also gets a 7zip format for cross platform users.  There are a number of fixes and addition to this update.  Updates include new CSV route files with signals, route file error fixes, transparency issue fixes, the error at Metropolitan Avenue with the platform on the wrong side.  There is a route for all BVE 2/4/Open users.  BVE 2 users get the signal fix with CSV.  BVE 4/OpenBVE in addition to the signal fix get brightness commands.  OpenBVE gets a weather update.  Unlike our other updates, this is probably an update that you want to get even if your files are working.

Enjoy the updates!
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Orion V CNG #748 on January 23, 2011, 09:57:45 pm
Damn!, im liking the G with rain already. Just ran a test on the rainy G from Carroll to Smith-9 with the R38 and turning on the wipers is just awesome! lols :D
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: kyz101 on January 23, 2011, 10:24:46 pm
where do i download it
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Mr Railfan on January 23, 2011, 10:38:53 pm
where do i download it
its in the Download station .
Back on topic : OMG the rain effect is fucking jaw droping ;D!!!. i also love the darkening in the tunnel which adds more realism . excellent job and i wish more routes are like this!
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 23, 2011, 10:54:46 pm
Now THIS is what I've been waiting for... Great job Kevin... If only you could add some rain sound lol
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 23, 2011, 11:26:46 pm
There is rain sound.  Unless your train is drowning the sound out ::)

Thanks for the comments, glad you guys like it  :D
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 23, 2011, 11:40:39 pm
Gotcha... The rain is not as bad at the bottom though... If it was, I'm sure we wouldn't be able to see the stations lol
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Mr Railfan on January 23, 2011, 11:46:06 pm
There is rain sound.  Unless your train is drowning the sound out ::)

Thanks for the comments, glad you guys like it  :D
would it be possible to do a Blizard/Snow storm version? . that would be epic !
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 24, 2011, 12:21:19 am
I'd have to change the textures for the rails  :P
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Rayvon on January 24, 2011, 02:52:14 am
I'd have to change the textures for the rails  :P
did you remember to change the adhesion? lol
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 24, 2011, 02:12:55 pm
Yep I changed the adhesion.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2011, 04:54:33 pm
The rain looks great! Is there a way to make the animation refresh faster?

By the way, Kevin, could you release an R160 version for the (G)? You could use SIR's sounds (with permissions of course), change the station dwell time by shaving off a 2-3 seconds, and adding the announcements when the train is coming into the station.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 24, 2011, 07:55:09 pm
You can change the rain refresh rate by modifying the rain.animated file.

Railway\Object\Crosstown\rainobj\rain.animated is the location.  Where it says RefreshRate =
Code: [Select]
[Object]
States = rain3.b3d, rain2.b3d, rain3.b3d
StateFunction = mod[value + 1, 3]
RefreshRate = 0.1

Make that number smaller.  Do use it with caution though, as my computer crashed when I set it too quickly, or its just my laptop (most likely my laptop).

If SIR grants me permission then I will work on a R160 version.  I have heard his announcements however, and there were some issues with it.  I believe that train was terminating at Coney Island and not Smith-9th which would make it less likely for me to use it, unless I made more modifications to it.  The announcements issue will be fixed on the next major update then, which will be who knows when.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 24, 2011, 07:59:09 pm
I would at least make a 10 car version... I forgot who out there had the regular G auto announcements
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 24, 2011, 08:07:05 pm
If I do get the R160 in, then that will be the 10 car version, since there are no 4 or 5 car sets that have ran on the G.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 24, 2011, 08:18:28 pm
Gotcha... I'll try looking through the old forums and see if I can find those announcements
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2011, 09:24:25 pm
Gotcha... I'll try looking through the old forums and see if I can find those announcements

Thanks a lot for looking into that.
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Thanks for the tip kevin. By the way, is it just me, because in the rainy version of the (G), the layup tracks at Smith 9th are a bit jumbled up.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 24, 2011, 09:36:06 pm
Nah one of the switches is
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 24, 2011, 09:36:51 pm
Are you talking about the switches near 4th Avenue?
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 24, 2011, 09:38:03 pm
I'd go with a yes... Those are the ones that appeared that way on my copy
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Simon on January 24, 2011, 09:50:55 pm
Yep that was the one I was referring to.
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By the way, if any of you want to simulate a moderately nasty ass storm, you should set the raindrop animations to 0.001 as the Refresh Rate. This may drop your frames down 10, so this is only recommended on good computers.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Dj Hammers on January 26, 2011, 11:54:54 pm
Yeah I also noticed that in the rain version that the tracks after Smith-9th Streets are weird right before the switch to the layup track.

Also in the rain version, could the Oskari's rain function be used in the route so that trains with windshield wipers could actually wipe away raindrops that appear on the windshield? Look at the East London Line Route with rain and the A Stock to see what I mean.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Rayvon on January 27, 2011, 02:42:42 am
Yeah I also noticed that in the rain version that the tracks after Smith-9th Streets are weird right before the switch to the layup track.

Also in the rain version, could the Oskari's rain function be used in the route so that trains with windshield wipers could actually wipe away raindrops that appear on the windshield? Look at the East London Line Route with rain and the A Stock to see what I mean.
the route would have to use beacon commands to call the plugin
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: theflyingoreo on January 27, 2011, 06:15:52 pm
Done.... NEXT  ;)

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1518/69130393.png)
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: (J)-Broad St,Manhattan to Jamaica Center Parsons/Archer,Qnz. on January 27, 2011, 06:50:04 pm
does anyone know how to activate the wipers on the R38?
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Slants4Lyfe on January 27, 2011, 06:56:36 pm
does anyone know how to activate the wipers on the R38?
Page Up and Page Down
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 28, 2011, 04:40:50 pm
Yeah I also noticed that in the rain version that the tracks after Smith-9th Streets are weird right before the switch to the layup track.

Also in the rain version, could the Oskari's rain function be used in the route so that trains with windshield wipers could actually wipe away raindrops that appear on the windshield? Look at the East London Line Route with rain and the A Stock to see what I mean.

If your talking about the switches after Smith-9th Street and before 4th Avenue, then yes those switches are actually not done.  Which is why the train does not terminate at 4th Avenue.  What you are looking at is not meant to be seen by you guys so this is not a problem at all.  4th Avenue was never completed , so the route was never coded to terminate at the layup.

Consider that a bonus, and a preview of how 4th Avenue will eventually look like.  I'm quite confused on how it took you guys so long to find out that those switches aren't done.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Dj Hammers on January 28, 2011, 05:18:22 pm
Done.... NEXT  ;)

(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1518/69130393.png)
hey aaron and ipac could that be released as an update to the existing G?
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on January 28, 2011, 07:12:12 pm
Yeah I also noticed that in the rain version that the tracks after Smith-9th Streets are weird right before the switch to the layup track.

Also in the rain version, could the Oskari's rain function be used in the route so that trains with windshield wipers could actually wipe away raindrops that appear on the windshield? Look at the East London Line Route with rain and the A Stock to see what I mean.

If your talking about the switches after Smith-9th Street and before 4th Avenue, then yes those switches are actually not done.  Which is why the train does not terminate at 4th Avenue.  What you are looking at is not meant to be seen by you guys so this is not a problem at all.  4th Avenue was never completed , so the route was never coded to terminate at the layup.

Consider that a bonus, and a preview of how 4th Avenue will eventually look like.  I'm quite confused on how it took you guys so long to find out that those switches aren't done.
As far as I know, those switches in the old version are not messed up...
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: ipac on January 29, 2011, 04:03:13 pm
Messed up or not, your seeing an easter egg bonus, not something that was meant to be driven over.  So stop complaining about it.
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: dogerdog on February 16, 2011, 09:35:52 pm
Where is it in the download section?
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on February 16, 2011, 09:58:49 pm
What, the G?
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: dogerdog on February 16, 2011, 10:48:34 pm
The 7zip file file
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: dogerdog on February 16, 2011, 10:52:51 pm
Nevermind Thank u :)
Title: Re: 7zip formats are now online! + Southbound G Update
Post by: Bombardier01800 on February 16, 2011, 10:57:46 pm
You're welcome.