Desert Train

Desert Train

Around you is a desert. The high sun burns through your skin, the low moon chills you to the bone. Also around you are sparse shrubs, dry, cracked rock, and a railway line. Upon the rails rests a train manifest, consisting of a bulky diesel locomotive and some freight cars.

Desert Train is the experience of driving a freight train through a vast, barren desert.

Features

• an approximation of railway dynamics that simulates driving & braking physics,
• a pneumatic simulation to approximate automatic air brake systems,
• user-configurable wagon setups, including pneumatics, control handles and  behaviors.
• a deterministic heightmap & rail section generator,
• a minimal-overhead terrain loading scheme with level of detail,
• arithmetical evaluation of perlin noise octaves from a prefix expression,
• origin-shifting using a layered unit coordinate scheme to alleviate spatial jitter,
• a deferred execution scheme to keep heavy computations and frame-times under control.

Note: the builds for x86_64 are targeting 64-bit machines, and the ones for i686 are for 32-bit machines. Use the release version by default, debug builds are meant for diagnostic purposes.