Powder River Basin

[Tomcat]

Happy Holidays Tomcat! Thanks for sharing the results of your skills with this community. Much appreciated.

I take your using and, hopefully, enjoying, my efforts as thanks enough. Happy Holidays to you!

[chrisreb]

An happy holidays to you and have a break from the route building - you deserve it

[Tomcat]

An happy holidays to you and have a break from the route building - you deserve it

Thanks Chris! Happy Holidays to you!

[CN2899]

happy holidays all the best

[Tomcat]

happy holidays all the best

Same to you and hoping for a better 2022!

[Tomcat]

Decided to treat myself to a second computer build as a home for the recently acquired 3070. Once the GPU market returns to something approaching sanity I'll spring for a mid-range GPU to put back into my Ryzen rig but for now I'm exploring how the other half lives in team blue.

I was looking around UKTrainSim the other day and came across a post from someone (name escapes me at the moment) who was experimenting with long, thin asset blocks of some suitable vegetation to make farms look a bit more realistic over just a ground texture. The poster was using the vegetation from Vulcan Productions, which I have become very fond of, and claimed that the fps hit was negligible considering how many asset blocks were needed and the density that was needed. Now, I have been using a similar technique for long lines of trees and bushes that are used as wind breaks for many of the farms in the PRB but it never occurred to me to try doing this for crops.

So, I gave it a shot and I think it looks much better than just a painted on ground texture. fps drop was barely noticeable.

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[chrisreb]

That looks promising

[AmericanSteam]

Yes, it does look better.

[buzz456]

Ooh I like that.

[gtrtroger]

Looks like springtime bean fields to me too……

[Gavin]

someone please help me. When I try to install the actual route it pops up " Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click continue. The application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit. The application will close immediately."
I'm installing it in Train Simulator Utilities
But I got the "PRBAssets" installed
PLEASE HELP THANK YOU!

[AmericanSteam]

I usually unpack the route file using 7Zip and manually paste it (the long number) into the routes folder.

[Gavin]

Okay how do you install this route youtube isnt helping me at all

[Gavin]

Alright I got the route installed and the assets but is there any way it can work in quick drive?

[gtrtroger]

There are a whole bunch of freeroams included that cover every inch of the PRB. Try one of those. There are several really good standard scenarios as well.