[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

Just a request: if/when you guys look at steam locomotives again - would there be a way to enable tenders to cast a cone of light just like a locomotive headlight ?

Regards,
Scott

[Mipman25]

I believe it's been done before on some models, although I forgot what. When the headlight is off, the tender light is on.

[PA1930]

My guess is that what it could be done is making the light cone for dim lights to front direction and the cone for full lights to backwards, using lets say the same levels of light on both light cones, and one turned 180º so it can make illumination to backwards.

[copperpen]

That does work in MSTS, but the actual cone does not get reversed if I remember right. You get the wide end nearest to you, but it creates the illusion of a rearward looking light. Not sure though if you can actually attach a light source to a wag file.

[scottb613]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the input - yeah - I've messed with this before in MSTS - the problem is ony an engine can use a cone of light IIRC... Any car can have a disc of light but you can't control the other cars discs from the engine - if it can't be setup to use the predefined rules... The cone of light needs to be attached to the tender - so it pivots with the action of the tender... It's been a while though - so I don't recall if there was an issue when you faced the cone 180 out from its normal direction... I did note OR gives us a "dim" setting which is already a big improvement over MSTS...

Ideally we need the sphere and disc on the tender to be controlled from a switch on the locomotive - for example - the dim/bright light switch mentioned earlier...

Regards,
Scott

[captain_bazza]

Hi Scott,

As usual with MSTS, some solutions can be fudged. I am certain there's a rare MSTS lighting tutorial somewhere out there on the 'net.

Cheers Bazza

[James Ross]

 scottb613, on 27 May 2013 - 05:38 AM, said:

Just a request: if/when you guys look at steam locomotives again - would there be a way to enable tenders to cast a cone of light just like a locomotive headlight ?

A light cone on any locomotive or wagon will work in OR, with one important limitation: only one light cone is active at once (it's a rendering limitation).