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▪ Welcome
Latest News
(12th May 2012)
Welcome to Railsimroutes.net,
the homepage of Anthony Bowden, where realistic, detailed, immersive and graphically rich add-ons are being developed
for openBVE, a licence free,
open source, free-of-charge train driving simulator.
Please use the navigators above or below to browse the site. You can read my
blog for the latest news and updates, both regarding what's happening here
at Railsimroutes.net, and what's happening
in the world of openBVE. You can download routes, find help and other information
via the Projects page, view a selection of screenshots
on the Gallery page, and find plenty of useful or interesting
sites to visit on the Links page.
▪ Active Projects
You can follow the progress of two openBVE route projects
currently being
developed -
Birmingham Cross-City South v2.0, running from Redditch to Birmingham's
busy New Street station, and the
WCML Watford Junction to Rugby route. Both projects will
make full use of the various features and capabilities provided by openBVE. You can also follow progress with
development of the new
UkTrainSys cross-platform .NET plugin for openBVE, which aims to simulate a
variety of systems found on trains which operate in the UK. You can also visit the links below for more information, help
with openBVE, miscellaneous downloads, and to read about the history of
Railsimroutes.net:
▪ About openBVE
openBVE is an open source, licence
free, internationally aware, cross-platform, free-of-charge train driving simulator,
with an emphasis on in-cab driving, realistic physics, braking and safety system
simulation. openBVE uses OpenGL and OpenAL for graphics and audio respectively, and
being cross-platform, is designed to run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Please visit the
openBVE homepage
for more information, as well as the
Railsimroutes.net
openBVE Help and Information section.
Some key
openBVE features:
- Animated objects, full 3D cab support, and external camera views
- 3D positional surround sound
- Enhanced graphics quality, filtering, transparent texture handling
- Detailed safety and braking system modelling, and realistic physics
- Multi-lingual interface and cross-platform compatibility
- And more...
Information: This site is XHTML 1.1 and CSS level 3 compliant, and should render
correctly in recent browsers, e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, Opera, Safari...
