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Hi Roger,
thank you for your words!
What you describe is more or less what I have in mind, but I don't know if I will implement it.
Container management
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Posted 11 December 2022 - 06:54 AM
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Posted 13 December 2022 - 06:02 AM
Please take this as a sugestion for a new feature:
https://i.ibb.co/rbs4HNc/l5JiHFbh.jpg
We can safely investigate the usage of entire semi's in Lo-Lo
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https://i.ibb.co/rbs4HNc/l5JiHFbh.jpg
We can safely investigate the usage of entire semi's in Lo-Lo
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Posted 13 December 2022 - 06:34 AM
Was the truck driver onboard? :rofl:
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Posted 13 December 2022 - 01:56 PM
That was funny.
So I'm musing over extended uses for the containers in using a gantry crane to load timber and lumber onto cars. It is essentially the same as loading containers just that the load is a log instead of a box. Gantry cranes were used for cargo loading at some freight depots so it would be reasonable, and works the same as the container crane. Would using the feature for this purpose be viable?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VpVqMDamOvo/maxresdefault.jpg
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In the same vein a similar crane could be used to load coal and ore with a clam shell bucket?
So I'm musing over extended uses for the containers in using a gantry crane to load timber and lumber onto cars. It is essentially the same as loading containers just that the load is a log instead of a box. Gantry cranes were used for cargo loading at some freight depots so it would be reasonable, and works the same as the container crane. Would using the feature for this purpose be viable?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VpVqMDamOvo/maxresdefault.jpg
(Render found on google)
In the same vein a similar crane could be used to load coal and ore with a clam shell bucket?
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 01:45 AM
Jonatan,
picking a container and loading/unloading it on a wagon means handling an object that has well defined dimensions and is a single object. As your picture shows very well, this is not the case wieh timber and lumber, where a bunch of objects, whose amount and relative position is not fixed, is handled at a time. It's something different. The only simple extension that I see, and that I already mentioned, is that of truck trailers.
picking a container and loading/unloading it on a wagon means handling an object that has well defined dimensions and is a single object. As your picture shows very well, this is not the case wieh timber and lumber, where a bunch of objects, whose amount and relative position is not fixed, is handled at a time. It's something different. The only simple extension that I see, and that I already mentioned, is that of truck trailers.
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 05:31 AM
I would intend to make a log bundle as a single defined object, not as a bunch of dynamic objects as that wouldn't be possible as you said. Some compromise in the visual appearance would have to be made but that's fine.
Likewise a single log placed on a flatcar one at a time would be the same as placing a container one at a time? It would just be many more of them and more tightly grouped togeather.
Likewise a single log placed on a flatcar one at a time would be the same as placing a container one at a time? It would just be many more of them and more tightly grouped togeather.
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 11:12 AM
And define a default arrangement... honeycomb like, I guess..
That could be usefull for loading rails on wagons too...
There is a lot of cargos that could benefit from dedicated anims, but I'm only remembering palets and stuff wich would need a vehicle of sorts... quite complex... and ambitious
That could be usefull for loading rails on wagons too...
There is a lot of cargos that could benefit from dedicated anims, but I'm only remembering palets and stuff wich would need a vehicle of sorts... quite complex... and ambitious
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 12:15 PM
There are tank-containers too...
Refrigerator-containers....
Refrigerator-containers....
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 01:38 PM
Reefers and tank containers may be used with the actual software.
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Posted 14 December 2022 - 02:21 PM
indeed :naughty:
These are part of my so called CPV.container pack
https://i.ibb.co/TMhQrFQ/Open-Rails-2022-12-14-10-18-01.png
https://i.ibb.co/ssC92xb/Open-Rails-2022-12-14-10-20-48.png
These are part of my so called CPV.container pack
https://i.ibb.co/TMhQrFQ/Open-Rails-2022-12-14-10-18-01.png
https://i.ibb.co/ssC92xb/Open-Rails-2022-12-14-10-20-48.png