Some Questions

[dzien50]

Hi
Anyone any ideas why the following is happening :

1. Locos go through each other when going over diamond crossings and signals do not stop them they show green for both locos ?

2. The smoke which comes out of deisels exhaust suddenly becomes a trickle that can hardly be seen, this is happening randomly on many different locos when going back into the same session. Nothing has been changed from one start up to the next. ?

3 locos/track disappear when using turntables ?

I can live with 1 & 3 but 2 is very frustrating and annoying.

I run TRS2006

Thanks
PJ

[Euphod]

You need not live with #1....there are rules on the DLS which can prevent that. Most locomotives do not produce huge gouts of exhaust when they get up to speed, but you can try editing the smoke settings in the config files to "up the amount". I think #3 is a feature, and may or may not corrected in future TC releases.
Ed

[dzien50]

Hi
Thanks I'll look for the rule on DLS, however I have tried changing smoke in config file to various levels but to no avail, the prob is that its random, ie will be on then go next time i run session then back on again !! ??
PJ

[SuperFudd]

Is the smoke variable because of the varying of the throttle? As a loco acelerates it will put out more smoke.
Way back when I had a problem like that due to a line I had added to tranzoptions.txt.

[dzien50]

Hi Super
No thats def not the prob. lets take one loco as example, I load the session drive the loco at first quite large plumes of smoke til it gets going, the maybe next time I load the session the loco will just show a tiny tiny puff of smoke and at no time the big start off plume, then poss next time I load session back to big plume. by the way its not on/off/on/off with each session its very random, sometimes not on for 4/5 sessions then back on. I think being random its much harder to pin down a cause.
PJ

[SuperFudd]

Ah yes. I don't have a clue.
I did notice yesterday that a UP C30 I got from the DLS smokes on and off while in motion, perhaps every 10 seconds. Perhaps that is as it's creator intended.

[dzien50]

Hi Ed
I cannot track down this diamond crossing rule, have you anymore info about it ?
Thanks
PJ

[Harry_James_Potter]

Hi Super
No thats def not the prob. lets take one loco as example, I load the session drive the loco at first quite large plumes of smoke til it gets going, the maybe next time I load the session the loco will just show a tiny tiny puff of smoke and at no time the big start off plume, then poss next time I load session back to big plume. by the way its not on/off/on/off with each session its very random, sometimes not on for 4/5 sessions then back on. I think being random its much harder to pin down a cause.
PJ

It'll be a bug.

I've had this happen to me quite often and there's no cure that I know for it.

And the smoke in TRS is not very realistic to begin with...

regards

Harry

[dzien50]

Thanks Harry, at least if I know its a bug then I'm not doing anything wrong, yeah I agree its not that great but it is something when it works !!
PJ