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You may have "cab shake" (or whatever its called) enabled, OR is experimenting (I think) with a small amount of cab roll to go with this effect and have therefore zoomed in slightly to the cabview so...

See the link for the source on the openrails web site, (its in the news entry for Nov 6,2012) when you download the src using svn you also get a compiled version in the "trunk/Program" directory.
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You can ty it out using the latest "experimental" version, vibration is not enabled by default but is enabled under the options>experimental tab.

Thank you, I managed to work that out.

I set viewingFOV to 28, I use a 30 inch 2560x1600 monitor, 28 degree FOV equates to 45 degrees horizontally on my monitor (Note 1). I found the difference...

In the log a parameter is printed "viewingFOV" can this be changed and how is it done. Its not in the registry.

A web search came up with the explanation that the parameter is OR's vertical field...

A couple of points on viewing distance.....

With a camera angle of 45 degrees (somewhat wider than a standard normal fix lens) the width of 1 pixel on a 2560x1600 monitor at 20 kilometres is...

I downloaded the latest SVN version and the parameter appears in the log file as false, but does not appear under
Menu->Option->Simulation how does one turn it on.

Lindsay

With earlier versions of OR one must stop with the head of the train in the platform for OR to register a stop. This has been fixed I believe in the later experimental versions.

In the end it will depend on what your definition of good is. A railway system is a very complex thing to simulate and if a particular simulator is "good" depends on what one is looking for. The look...

I have tested and run OR on muitiple systems back to a Gigabyte GA-P35 with a dual 2.2 ghz cpu and I found all systems I tried would run OR well as long as one had a reasonably decent graphics card....

Thats correct, theres a cab ride video on Youtube Showing this, but an ex driver from this line told me the loaded trains always get priority for all other instances. I found it takes something more...

I asked about this some time back for the BHP Port Hedland to MAC route and the reply then was it was not presently on the todo list.
This route also needs to be able to give priority to the loaded...

The pause is very likley there in real life. A great deal happens in Diesel Electric when Dynamaic brake is enabled.

Main Altenator output swiches off,
Fields of all traction motors switched into...

In a series wound DC traction motor theoreticaly the torque and therefore tractive effort is proportional to the square of the motor current. In real life this square law does not hold true due to...

Yes they did, Note the draw bar power of the bigboys was stated by the manufaturer in the 1943 locomotive cyclopedia as 7000 at 70 mph. Thats some train it could pull. The coal consumption at full...

A couple of points at random.............

A real wow factor for OR is that it displays on 2560x1600 monitors, absolutely awesome, In fact I am considering getting one of the new Dells for my other...

Not yet, the development team have discussed an editor though.

It appears from post on various forums that an OR world editor is eagerly awaited.

Now I am reasonably new to cabviews and I have yet not done much 3D modelling but I have done two things to make cabs more beleivable. To get the image of the loco ahead of the cab in the cabview I...

I was also slightly concerend over the number of negative posts. while this version can do some strange things, for instance I have twice had opposing AI traffic swiched onto the same single track as...

Just though I'd mention this..............

OR V 0.8 has support for twin pipe brake systems, As the OR developers have not mentioned it one should probably be wise to treat it as exprimental but I...

On the subject of delays in the release of open source software, from my experience of developing in Linux it would be safe to say most/all? OS developers are perfectionists to some extent and will...

Yes you can, and I am much anticipating the next release....................

Lindsay

The current version of OR (V0.7) does not as yet support speed limits.

On the subject of MSTS/OR physics of the rolling stock, MSTS is capable of quite realistic "physics" as long as its been set up properly. Sadly to few particuarly locos have been setup correctly. The...

Horsepower and torque/tractiveffort are simply different physical quantities, one is neither more or less important than other. Confusion over these two terms are quite common in the community....