MSTS LGVMed
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Summary
News
New website address, please update your
bookmarks:
MSTS LGVMed in English: http://perso.numericable.fr/~lucweb/lgvmed/eng/
MSTS LGVMed in French: http://perso.numericable.fr/~lucweb/lgvmed/fr/
Clem Tillier's TGV Generation 1 (ex TGV Pack 2)
project has been transferred to Projets ESK,
see the announcement here.
New activities "Marseille-L'Estaque
(TER)" and "SEI Inspection" are available on the Activities page. If you're a TGV
driver, this will allow you to see things from another point of view…
Train Simulator Speedworks is closing. Thanks Clem for all
your efforts, your superb realizations, and your help on the LGVMed project.
Updated "LGV Storm" and "TGV
Race" activities are available on the Activities page.
A detailed update method and tips for activity
writers can be found on the Activities
page.
Updated FAQ
and Activities pages.
LGVMed 3.0 is now available. Please check the
following websites for downloads:
File: LGVMed30.zip
Size: 30.9
Mb
Don't forget to read the readme.txt file for
installation instructions.
Have fun J
Some LGVMed 3.0 screenshots:
TGV on a viaduct in a 8000 m radius curve
TGV leaving Marseille St Charles
LGVMed 3.0 is currently under beta test and
will be available soon.
On this map, you can see a section of the new LGV layout
(green line), using 4000-15000 m radius curves, on top of the old one (black
line) before signals (red dots) are moved. The distance between two consecutive
signal clusters is 1500 m.
Here is a screenshot of the Ventabren viaduct
reconstruction, and the new Marseille St
Charles station documentation.
LGVMed 3.0 Xtracks version is coming soon.
The layout of the LGV has been reworked using
Xtracks 3.10 high radius curves, restoring the original aspect of the route.
This adds a lot of realism and provides a new driving experience!
Other changes included in this version:
- Additional smoothing of slope variations
- Curved viaducts (Ventabren, Avignon, more)
- Tunnel fixes (Vinsargues, Avignon)
- TGV station fixes (Aix-en-Provence, Avignon)
- Major rework of Marseille St Charles station
area
- Revision of junctions and associated signals
- Signals, platform, naming fixes and more
Notes regarding activities
This is a major revision of the route and, because
of the nature of modifications, it was not possible to keep it compatible with
previous versions. LGVMed 2.1 has more than 50 activities, found on several
MSTS sites, and most of them will probably not be rewritten. So, if you like
them and want to keep these activities, I suggest you to keep LGVMed 2.1 in a
separate directory and move between 2.1 and 3.0 as needed.
Note about Xtracks version
LGVMed 3.0 uses features only found in the 3.10
version, so this version of Xtracks is required.
Some work remains to be done, so please be
patient…
Foreword
Please note
that English is not my native language, so don’t hesitate to send me comments
or corrections.
On the
other hand, I have tried to give you translations of French terms and
abbreviations, as they appear through the text. I hope you will not find this
too boring…
Introduction
At the
beginning of this project, my priority was to build a high speed route which
would allow us to run Clem Tillier’s TGV (see Train Simulator Speedworks) at full speed (300 km/h = 186
Mph).
Living in
the South-East of France, I logically chose the LN5 (Ligne Nouvelle 5 = New
Line 5), also known as Mediterranean LGV (Ligne à Grande Vitesse = High
Speed Route).
This route
opened in June 2001 and allows to go from Marseilles to Paris in only 3 hours.
For more
information, see TGV.com
and TGVweb.
I started
to reproduce this route using IGN (National Geographic Institute) maps that
shows both the layout and the height of the tracks, and soon, I found myself
with many switches that has been left behind and led into nowhere. I couldn’t
resist continuing some of these other routes as well…
Finally, the most important to me is
that you have a good time driving your trains on my routes. If this happens to
be the case, my goal will have been reached.
Luc
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