Low-quality content has been attributed to this community for a long time now, and it’s about time that we have a change. Overall, we wish to change everyone’s perception of the NYC OpenBVE community. Luckily, we have friends in the MTA who help us get a lot of material, like sounds and textures, which is a colossal relief. We must get all the textures for the train in question, which isn’t always the easiest to do. Train development also takes a lot of time. This process applies not only to routes, though. Why have 20+ NYCT routes if barely any of them have re-playability? As you might expect, a process like this might mean the route in question could take weeks or even months to complete, but we’d rather focus on the quality rather than the quantity. Over a small period, they will play the route and its multiple versions and will give their feedback to the main developers for changes & improvements to be made. Upon completion of the route, we hand it off to some of our other developers for beta testing. Finally, we build the route, using our reference photos and RFW videos for help.
Next, when we are done surveying the route from the RFW videos, we take a trip along the line IRL, and this is when we grab all the reference photos and texture photos we will need to create station objects and more. So when we are creating routes, we first look at RFW (Railfan Window) videos to see just what we’re getting ourselves into and get a grasp on how long we think a project will take to complete.
We know all of you hate it when routes are missing signals, exits, and proper signage, and we hate it too. We hated the fact that routes were missing simple things, like station signs, details, and more, so we decided to change that. In recent history, the quality of both trains and routes for New York City has been dreadful, and with barely any other simulation games featuring our amazing subway system, railfans have been stuck with low-quality content. We plan to increase the quality and expectations of NYC Subway content (and possibly other cities in the future) for OpenBVE.
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