Some questions, which haven't arised yet

OK.. eh, hello first. I have a couple of questions and want to ask them. They are mainly to the developers, but still.

Q 1.
Shall trolleybuses (something you know in German as "O-Bus") be supported?
Q 2.
If yes, will the trolleys follow any set wires?

Q 3.
In case there is a steep hill (say 1 in 4) that buses can hardly get up on, will there be some sort of erm... slowing down whle getting up there?
Q 4.
If yes, will it be dependent on engine in the bus or anything else?

Q 5.
In case I set up a guided bus route (example - Essen in 80s, 90s, routes 146, 147), will the bus follow the route or will I have to do the turning myself?
The answer seems to be "will follow" since there is collision mesh inplemented already.

Regards and have a nice weekend.

Q2: I think we said that already anywhere: we don't have a set of wires for trolley buses! But:
Q1: You can script a bus engine which behave like a trolley bus - and it may sounds like a trolley bus! So you now can decide if trolley buses are possible for your own! But our official answer is "no" because of the missing wire system with following trolley.

Q3: You ask if we have a nice physics engine? Of course we have! So the answer is: of course yes!
Q4: Also yes - the speed depends on your engine, hill angle, gearbox type, selected gear, clutch pedal (if you like to script a manuel gear box) and so on...

Q5: I don't really understand that question: if you want to drive around the bus, following a special bus line, you should make the neccessary turns, of course - if you don't do, you will get to anywhere else!

Q5: ahh, now I understand: perhaps you mean something like that: http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/115/spurbus_mannheim1.jpg ?

No, that's not possbile in OMSI yet. We could make that possible, but it would be a lot of work which we don't need for our project, so we won't include it until release!

Yep, that's the tricky one.

But, if I can provide a set of rollers to the wheel-sides and proper rails, then, why wouldn't be it possible? I'd also have to make to rollers behave like rollers (not collide but "roll" upon) and not like a piece of metal sticking out the side of the bus...

Marcel, i think Peter is trying to say that will we be guided the route as in markers or waypoints etc?

There's actually some simulators ( if you can call them that) that if a vehicle goes on a steep inclimb, it will not slow down!

Q6. Do you guys have any plans on producing Artic buses in the future for OMSI as an addon? If so how would that work? Would the rubber bends in the middle be animations or modeled out and have the back part function as a mere trailer?
Q6b. Would it be possible to specified the rear wheels in trailer section of the artic to be powered? There are buses around here which its engine is located in the trailer section of the artic. We used to have buses which were called the Volvo B10M which it's engine was in the front and it was middle drive.

Q7. Are there any plans to release buses in the future with different kinds of Engines and Transmissons? I know that the ZF transmission is extremely popular over there among fans.

Q8. Would it be possible to implement a speed governor system on buses? I know buses around here are set to 100 Km/h or 62mph regardless of gearing.

Q6: You can read it in the FAQs! Q6B: we cannot answer until we have implemented that feature.

Q7/Q8: Both can be scriptet by everybody who understands the script language of omsi. Perhaps we will create further buses later, perhaps with ZF, too. But we cannot promise anything. But POSSBILE is it! Governor systems are also possible to script.

tomtoon schrieb:

Marcel, i think Peter is trying to say that will we be guided the route as in markers or waypoints etc?

Wrong. There was a fairly nice system in Essen in 1990s where there were rollers attached to the bus just after the main wheels and there were "blocks" of concrete which allowed the bus to go as well as guided it using the rollers.
OK, guiding - gone and bye bye.

Oh ok peter. But will we have a mapped route so we know where we are driving?

Of course you will get several hints that you know where you have to drive!

thanks marcel

Goodevening all,

Maybe it is a formiliar question, but can you only drive the busline 92 or will there be more drivable buslines?
Vincent.

Vincent schrieb:

Goodevening all,

Maybe it is a formiliar question, but can you only drive the busline 92 or will there be more drivable buslines?
Vincent.

You can drive whatever and wherever you want, but the ground will be missing.. ;-) (no, just that one)

I just stay on the 92 Line. I dont wanna cause any accidents or damage
I noticed there is police driving around.

Thanks!

But i don't think so, they will try to catch you or something
LoL

Yes i know, but there is police driving around this time, i have not spotted them on Usedom. My driving behavior is terrible over there.
Further i play the good boy

lol

OK, Q9 concerns the route editor:

How do we put down roads? Do we select a type and mark sections (like in Trainz or Cities XL 2011) or do we have sections already existing that must be placed like an object?

peterZZD schrieb:

OK, Q9 concerns the route editor:

How do we put down roads? Do we select a type and mark sections (like in Trainz or Cities XL 2011) or do we have sections already existing that must be placed like an object?

I hope it's the first one!

Q10: How can I create road network like a real one, can I put a map picture so I can make according to picture?

Q9: You have both, bendable street types and fix crossings. But the details you will get with the map editor!
Q10: You can add a ground layer picture as reference.

Marcel Kuhnt schrieb:

Q9: You have both, bendable street types and fix crossings. But the details you will get with the map editor!
Q10: You can add a ground layer picture as reference.

YEAH!
All answers like I expected!

Sweet! I'll make maps rather than buses for simple reason... to me Blender looks like a MacBook Air to a person from 1975! I think I'll fit some Berlinese (is that OK?) objects, if such arrangment is allowed, of course.

OK, Q12
Will speed limits apply or a sign will be just an object on the tile?

Q13.
If yes, will we be noticed if we exceed the speed limit? If not, will such feature be implemented in the future?

(I was actually going to put Q13 as a piece of C++ code, but since Delphi != C++...)

Q14. Will OMSI support any type of markers file, as MSTS does? And extending this question...will OMSI support any kind of geometry of land extraction (like DEMEX) to create landscape without the editor tools, representing accurately the relieve existing in reality?

Q15. Thinking about making new maps...what will be the license for using existing objects in the BVG 92 line? I mean...if I want to use (or modify, it is the point of my question) any object, like a car, for my map...how will we have to do this?

Q12: Of course there are "real" speed limits - think of AI traffic!
Q13: No, not yet. Perhaps later.
Q14: DEM-extraction ist not possible yet (not inside Omsi editor, you could make a stand alone tool doing this - we would give you the format of our terrain data files. Markers are not supportet but you can include an aerial picture, so this was more than enough for our purposes!
Q15: Using OUR objects is no problem at all: since they are included in each OMSI package everone who likes to use your map will have them, too. But because we have copyright on our objects, you have to ask us before editing them (or release an edited version)!

Q15: If I buy your game, I can edit them however I want to, but I cannot just sell them...