[R H Steele]

In both Open Rails and MSTS the Throttle Increase (Accelerate) > D and the Throttle Decrease (Deaccelerate) > A ! Is this some keyboard arcana, railroad tradition or mere human obfustication at work.:pardon:

[markus_GE]

I suppose, this is just something MS invented - you couldn´t even say, D is the left arrow key and a the right one, which then would translate to throttle to the left / right in a standard cab. Obviously, someone was really confused with that :fool:

Cheers, Markus

[gpz]

R H Steele, on 07 January 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

Is this some keyboard arcana, railroad tradition or mere human obfustication at work.

Yeah, real world trains work like this too.

[James Ross]

R H Steele, on 07 January 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

In both Open Rails and MSTS the Throttle Increase (Accelerate) > D and the Throttle Decrease (Deaccelerate) > A ! Is this some keyboard arcana, railroad tradition or mere human obfustication at work.:fool:

It's possible MSTS copied it from some earlier game, but I expect it was just picked fairly arbitrarily. Using WASD is obviously nice, W/S make sense for F/N/R, so you're left with which way around A/D are. IIRC, RailWorks/Rail Simulator/Train Simulator 2014 uses A/D the opposite way around (so A is accelerate). I'm not at all sure what Trainz uses. Open Rails is definitely copying MSTS, though.

[R H Steele]

Not a suggestion - just asking -- at this stage in development would it make sense to use A for increase and D for decrease or would that cause confusion? A can of worms?

[markus_GE]

YOu can at anyone time change it under options -> keaboard, if you wish. E.g., the keyboard mapping I use is only coherent to the defaults on WASD - nothing more :fool:

Cheers, Markus

[R H Steele]

markus_GE, on 07 January 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:

YOu can at anyone time change it under options -> keaboard, if you wish. E.g., the keyboard mapping I use is only coherent to the defaults on WASD - nothing more ;)

Cheers, Markus

:fool: DUH ---- has anyone seen my brain? O yea, I put it on the fast freight outta my head.

Edit - after Marcus found my brain I remapped the keyboard --- now if I can find where I put the keyboard????:)

[jared2982]

Just look down. You're typing on it.

[JorD1]

I guess D is increase because normally a right pointing key/arrow would mean increase/high.
Same with sliders and loding bars, Left is low, Right is high. I guess it originates in the way we write from lef to right.
Even for old analog appliences this ruel is there, A runing knob or slider on for example a radia is slided/turned right or increase of volume or frequency.

[R H Steele]

jared2982, on 08 January 2014 - 02:54 PM, said:

Just look down. You're typing on it.

"Rimshot" jared you know a straight line when you see one - :sweatingbullets: