Autopilot Rule - Description??

[boleyd]

I do not understand what Autopilot does?

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[wreeder]

That isn't quite correct. The rule is different from the driver command but they do work together. Here is the description from the DLS.

Description:
This rule makes it possible to activate the autopilot on trains without drivers. It must be added to the session in Surveyor. There are five different options in the configuration menu:
- start autopilot on all trains
- start autopilot only on trains that have drivers
- start autopilot only on trains that have no drivers
- start autopilot on user selected trains
- don't start autopilot on any train

In conjunction with the autopilot driver command it is possible in a session to control which trains have the autopilot enabled. The rule discovers if a driver receives an autopilot command. After a driver leaves his train the rule activates the autopilot on the now unattended train. If the driver moves to a train with activated autopilot an autopilot command is automatically added to the driver's schedule. To disable the autopilot it is just necessary to quit the command.

Search for autopilot on the DLS to see the instructions for the autopilot command. If you remember in UTC, the only AI behavior was that if you started a train moving and then switch to another train the abandoned train would continue until it came to a junction set against it. It would then signal you to come and change the junction. This rule and command attempt to recreate that behavior in TRS2004 and up.

William

 

[boleyd]

Got it -- Thanks

 

[sniper297]

Seems to me the intent is merely an instruction to the AI to go wherever he wants. Best use I can think of is on an isolated section of the route where you just want the AI moving around, but depending on the track plan could also be used in mainlines. I used it for the steamship on the Chicago River;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tfqD6aogc

Simply because I couldn't get the steamship to spawn from portals. So what I did instead was create a single track with reverse loops at each end, set the steamship on the track, gave him Autopilot, Activate, so he just cruises up and down the river all day triggering the drawbridges.

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[Mick_Berg]

It drives like a plane on AutoPilot, as does Drive, Just Drive, Auto Drive AI commands

Is there really a "Just Drive" command? Does your wife have to be in the cab before you can use it?:hehe:
Mick Berg.

 

[Dermmy]

Is there really a "Just Drive" command? Does your wife have to be in the cab before you can use it?:hehe:
Mick Berg.

You are confusing Just Drive with Shut Up and Just Drive which is an entirely different command.

Then there's "Keep Your Hands On The Wheel and Just Drive", but sometimes that's a really hard one to implement.

I can see mods reaching for the ban button, so I think I'll just drive away while I still can....

 

[JCitron]

You are confusing Just Drive with Shut Up and Just Drive which is an entirely different command.

Then there's "Keep Your Hands On The Wheel and Just Drive", but sometimes that's a really hard one to implement.

I can see mods reaching for the ban button, so I think I'll just drive away while I still can....

Wouldn't that be the Just Drive Away command?

John