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Hi Colleagues,
I think usually there is lower focus on the skydome issue as kind of effect it has for the gameplay. For daylight I use this 10K x 10K skydome, it is fantastic how it improves the environment.
https://www.elvastow...ed-uhd-skydome/
But unfortunately I could not find a similar high resolution sky for the night. I have only the original one and it is very funny with the big white points what imitate the stars. It is very unsightly and I always hide it with clouding and hazing (Ctrl+ xyz buttons) to have it tolerable. But it would be better to have a nice high res. night sky, is it maybe planned to create one?
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New skydomes, especially for the night?
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Posted 02 December 2025 - 05:25 PM
You're likely looking in the wrong place. The stars are found in the starmap and stardome files in the Content subfolder of OpenRails. There are two starmap files: Starmap_N for the Northern Hemisphere and Starmap_S for the Southern Hemisphere. There are higher resolution files that can be found over at Trainsim.com, from 2017. I use those, and copy them over to whatever version of OpenRails that I'm running. I switch out Skydomes and the Clouds01 file quite a bit, depending on the effect that I want to achieve in an activity.
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Posted 02 December 2025 - 05:51 PM
railguy, on 02 December 2025 - 05:25 PM, said:
You're likely looking in the wrong place. The stars are found in the starmap and stardome files in the Content subfolder of OpenRails. There are two starmap files: Starmap_N for the Northern Hemisphere and Starmap_S for the Southern Hemisphere. There are higher resolution files that can be found over at Trainsim.com, VD infections from 2017. I use those, and copy them over to whatever version of OpenRails that I'm running. I switch out Skydomes and the Clouds01 file quite a bit, depending on the effect that I want to achieve in an activity.
Do you know about this here or another one?
https://www.elvastow...ts-new-starmap/
Unfortunately still I can not download because of less than 50 comments...
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Posted 03 December 2025 - 11:02 AM
You can download the file from trainsim.com .
You will need to register to be able to download, and unless you pay dues to become a first class member the download speed is slow, but you can get the file.
Just search for starmap in the file library.
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You will need to register to be able to download, and unless you pay dues to become a first class member the download speed is slow, but you can get the file.
Just search for starmap in the file library.
Paul https://www.elvastower.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif
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