Hello, good afternoon, I need to know what is necessary for the train to open and close its doors, as well as whether it is true that seats are left free when passengers get off.
That is part of the animation invoked by stopping at a passenger enabled station. The passenger cars also need to be able to accept passengers. A highly detailed interior with seats and standing areas to show those passengers is needed if you want to see them on the train.
Providing the carriage has opening doors enabled, there is a very nice driver command on the DLS called “passenger door control”.
This is useful if your train is waiting at a station and you would like to keep the doors open while it waits.
You can use it to open left or right side (or even both) ..and then the same to close.
it works best if you add a ‘wait for’ command between opening and closing.
So, do the passengers inside actually change? I guess I always thought that the coaches came with a set of passengers determined by the creator, and while things appeared to happen on the platform, nothing really changed visually inside. But maybe that varies?
So, do the passengers inside actually change? I guess I always thought that the coaches came with a set of passengers determined by the creator, and while things appeared to happen on the platform, nothing really changed visually inside. But maybe that varies?
Passengers are cargo, so the creator can call for (only) specific sets of passengers, same as type of loads for a boxcar. But, as with the boxcar, you can change or add to the accepted passenger set(s) in-game on a by-car basis, or even to the car (or copy of it) in Content Manager. You can have fun on a route by setting the passenger set(s) wanted/available for some stations to match the defined passengers for a traincar, effectively controlling the flow on your route: rush hour businessmen, mid-morning shoppers, eastbound Westerners, westbound dudes, etc.. The car author defines seated or standing passengers by the names given the attachment points (passit, passtand), same as for stations.
