One of the requests that has come out using turntables is the following: consider an activity where a loco that exits the roundhouse, turns on the turntable, and then moves to couple a consist to carry it to destination. This requires having a short path from the roundhouse to the turntable. However, once the loco has rotated on the turntable, it is out of path and the rest of the activity should be executed with the loco in manual mode, which is not a proper way of running an activity.
x.3558, that required few code changes, provides a way out from this: if after exiting the turntable in manual mode the loco couples to a stopped (through waiting point or station stop) AI train, the player loco becomes "part" of such AI train and takes its path, together with station stops and so on. The AI train may have a visible loco (in this case the AI train will get a double traction after the player train has coupled) or may have an invisible loco, that can even be detached after the player loco attaches to the AI train.
Attached is a demo activity for route Sicilia 1, using standard MSTS trainsets: at startup the loco is in the roundhouse. The turntable must be aligned to the loco, the loco is moved on the turntable and set to manual mode and reverser at neutral, and then it is rotated to exit the platform with its back. It runs backward until it couples to the AI train stopped at the station. At this point the TrainListWindow must be opened (Alt-F9), and the player loco is "absorbed" within the AI train, automatically entering auto mode and getting the path of the AI train and its station stops. If one wants to run the whole activity, he can arrive up to the end station (Messina), where he can uncouple the player loco, proceed forward up to the reverse point, and then reverse up to the Messina turntable. There it can pass to manual mode, the turntable can be rotated, and the loco enters the Messina roundtable terminating the activity.
Testturntablepath.zip (4.3K)
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Re dforrest's request: no, up to now that is not possible, but it is not excluded that it will be possible.
As discovered in the link you provided
http://tsforum.freec...ting-turntables , it is possible to have a short invisible loco (with a screwed down cabview) attached to the player consist, to move such consist to the turntable, to detach the player loco leaving on the turntable the invisible loco together with the car to be turned, and to exit the turntable with the player loco. Then with the TrainListWindow one must select the invisible loco and player loco, and at that point it can rotate the turntable. When rotation is terminated you return to the original player loco and move it on the turntable, couple to the consist waiting there and exit the turntable.
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midneguy, on 07 June 2016 - 03:02 PM, said:
Turntable_PATHS.zip
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