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Article #28053Re: A Couple of Locomotion Questions
From: Ronnie Clark
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:24
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:24
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Marcin Grzegorczyk wrote in message <2uc722F28fo8bU1@uni-berlin.de>... > >I'm curious what routing algorithm you would choose. Granted, TTD's >routing is not particularly smart, but the requirements are pretty >specific: the algorithm must work in real time (it's called every time a >train arrives at a junction, so that trains don't get stuck if the >network is modified by the player) and require very little permanent >storage (as opposed to temporary, which isn't a problem). And don't >forget that the game was designed to run on a 386. Indeed, the fact that the game continues to run on my lowly 75MHz machine even with the latest Patch is a testament to the resource efficiency of the programming. Ronnie -- Volunteer guard on the Great Central Railway, Loughborough, Leicestershire Visit the world's only double track preserved steam railway! http://www.gcrailway.co.uk
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