SouthanUK » simulation http://www.southanuk.co.uk Words from the hands of Joseph Southan Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:26:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ SouthanUK, wacky and weird news for all. Written by Joseph Southan, hence the name. Joseph Southan yes Joseph Southan podcast@southanuk.co.uk podcast@southanuk.co.uk (Joseph Southan) 2006-2012 SouthanUK Podcast brings you the latest news about everything and anything Southanuk, Computers, Podcast, Gaming, Technology SouthanUK » simulation http://www.southanuk.co.uk/images/itunescover.jpg http://www.southanuk.co.uk An example of OpenBVE’s potential http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/an-example-of-openbves-potential/ http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/an-example-of-openbves-potential/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:16:18 +0000 Joseph Southan http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/an-example-of-openbves-potential/ (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) click image to play An example of the animation capabilities of the new OpenBVE.   From Rail Sim Routes UK ]]> (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.)
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An example of the animation capabilities of the new OpenBVE.

 

From Rail Sim Routes UK

]]> http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/an-example-of-openbves-potential/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ OpenBVE http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/openbve/ http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/openbve/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:30:00 +0000 Joseph Southan http://www.southanuk.co.uk/2009/01/29/openbve/ A new interest of mine is that of train simulation. A widely followed program for years was the good old BVE train viewer. However, with the release of Windows Vista, a change to DirectX caused it to become incompatible. The program also showed signs of age, with some graphics cards not working. Then the community began its very own version of BVE aptly named “OpenBVE.”

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The development of this program has been very swift indeed. In about 8 months, the developer has made leaps and bounds from the original, and very buggy alpha. OpenBVE now has more features than the current BVE and some of the routes look much better in OpenBVE than the old BVE.

 

Myself and DarkFire, have been following development of this program for a while and are pleased with how things are turning out. With regular updates from the developer, it really feels as if this program wont stagnate and become vapourware.

 

If you are interested in such things check out http://openbve.uuuq.com/en/ for the route player program and http://www.trainsimcentral.co.uk for some routes and trains.

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