TSW Users Among Us

[buzz456]

What's PBR and fbx? Not that I'm going anywhere from TSC but just for educational purposes.

[harryadkins]

Thanks for the great discussion. You've confirmed my observations regarding TSW and Trainz. As for me, I am firmly a TSC fan and think it is an amazing product to have lasted and improved this long. I hope that DTG and other developers will continue to support TSC I've bought several routes and scenario packs this year and a well pleased.

Harry

[cnwfan]

What's PBR and fbx? Not that I'm going anywhere from TSC but just for educational purposes.

PBR is physical based rendering. It uses light ray tracing to replicate how light interacts with materials. Material properties such as roughness, opacity, and metallic causes light rays to bounce back differently. Game engines, such as Unreal and Unity use PBR based shaders to replicate how light rays travel. That is how TSW gets it "photo realistic" look in the game.

FBX is a common 3D model format used by most 3D modeling programs. With TSC, you have to export a model to an IGS format using a special exporter. Then TSC utilities converts the IGS format into their geopcdx format. It would be nice if TSC could just use an FBX format model to convert from, thus eliminating an extra exporter.

[Boss1]

Thanks for the great discussion. You've confirmed my observations regarding TSW and Trainz. As for me, I am firmly a TSC fan and think it is an amazing product to have lasted and improved this long. I hope that DTG and other developers will continue to support TSC I've bought several routes and scenario packs this year and a well pleased.

Harry

I agree, TSC is an amazing product that I have used since its beginning as Railworks. I also hope both payware and freeware developers continue producing more amazing content for TSC.

I will continue to use both TSC and TRAINZ 22 in the future. As for TSW, I have become bored with it and will not purchase anymore editions.

[GSkid]

I occasionally load up TSW and TSC, but I've stopped regularly playing them to concentrate on my huge backlog of games I need to play. It also doesn't help that Europe and the UK are clearly their priority over USA content. And the USA content that we have gotten has been mainly commuter train based with some freight operations. I lean more towards freight trains in general. So unless that changes, I won't be playing it that often.