Vista made the Scenery Designer unusable and with no "fix", decided to put that in the bin together with the Sailing Simulator.
The Sailing Simulator locked up when changing settings.
I think when it was made c 2002 routes were limited to about 30 miles and as most my routes were about 60 miles or more each perhaps that was the cause.
Also decided to put the Motorboat Simulator in the bin as little more I can do with it.
It worked well enough but motoring a single boat on my own routes in the UK series does tend to get a bit boring after a few years!
So we have the sailing, motorboat and scenery designer forums but with next to no discussion for a few years bit pointless even looking at them anymore at present.
Finally the sailing simualator 5 which is under development, but with no new projected realease date at present and other priorities seem to take over at intervals, possibly causing more delays, etc. Maybe this year...maybe next...or....
So for now will go back and have a look at the Trainz simulator as development has resumed for another 2 versions, 2009, 2010. Classics 3 also has just been released.
Although a train simulator boats on invisible fixed track are possible and have made several narrow boats and barges and sailing ships plus canals.
Working ship locks and dry docks have been made for it by a Trainz forum member, and have made items for it, using the same blend files via dxf and gmax, for sceneries, as I used in the sail and motorboat simulator.
Also now looking at the trainz exporter for blend files to im files being worked on by a forum member.
Perhaps Stentec could produce an exporter for Blender so that animation would work via the obj file.
It probably would now but I don't know eough about it to set animation up correctly, as it has many different functions and equal to professional content creator programs
Sailsimulator 5, if it is finished, sounds as if it will have interesting possibilities, but the wait and see game is getting very tiresome as has stretched over several years, not just the last 18 months.
Barry