How many people use CAB mode?! Do you?

[NikkiA]

One other thing... what's the real difference between the two modes??? You can still control the engine with the Keyboard. Trying to use the Mouse to control the throttle, brakes, etc. is a real pain in the a** sometimes, at least in my experience.

Using cab mode you get realistic(ish) acceleration and deceleration, tractive effort and responses to it, physics of wheel slip and sanding. DCC mode on the other hand offers a very cut down model of physics and response to controls, most trains will pretty much 'stop on the spot' if you're in DCC mode. The physics rules adds some of those phsyics features to DCC mode, but not all.

But yeah, I use keyboard, can't really stand the mouse for much other than changing view.

I'd like to see Auran expand upon cab mode and offer more mappable controls, since at present it's impossible to model mechanical transmission locomotives properly, you can fudge some aspects using mouse controls and a script, but then you lose the benefits of keyboard controls, and large parts of your locomotive's physics have to be manually scripted. I'm not sure how easy it would be to offer analog and combined-analog throttles, but they'd make modelling UK locomotives (which usually had notches at off and 25%, then a continuous analog sweep to 100% throttle) much more realistic, and it'd put auran's controls ahead of RW again

 

[tomurban]

Mostly DCC and AI since I like to watch the signals and turnouts change by themselves.

tomurban

 

[UP6936]

Cab mode

Cab Mode only with a RailDriver.

 

[backyard]

What's DCC...?

Digital Command Control? Dial-command control? Direct-command ctrl?

I never run any route I don't know until I "mark-up" for that route, using AI Drivers, maps, etc...it's not prototypical or practical to run up a siding & derail, or shorten the running time up a branch before running the full route.

AI Driver mode uses the DCC physics enginespec, only the trains that drop speed down into the tens will slip and fail.

I got a RailDriver (Walthers has it on sale) through my local hobby shop, Central Tennessee Hobbies at the first price increase, because I had a job that afforded the cost & RD has an independent brake lever that is more responsive than the keyboard.

I have also found that the Accomplishments module keeps a running record of your activities, including a graph to display progress...but I don't think that AI Driver mode will do anything for your progress.

 

[IsambardKingdomBrunel]

Cab Mode......it's supposed to be a railway simulator not a toy train set.

 

[BigThing]

CAB mode when i am driving, DCC when i am testing rails, junctions, signalling and such.

 

[Puffingbilly]

CAB mode for the last 6 years and its more enjoyable since I've had RailDriver :hehe:

 

[Torpedo423]

Used DCC when I first started playing trainz, now I use cab mode only

CAB mode for the last 6 years and its more enjoyable since I've had RailDriver :hehe:

I wish I had one of those

 

[harpman]

75% Cab Mode and 25% DCC. I use Cab mode the majority of time because I have a Rail Driver controller which works in....CAB MODE!


bill

 

[misterchugg]

50 % cab mode 50 % third camera

ron

 

[richardjh]

I only drive a couple of locos (DCC or cab with Raildriver depending on how much time I have!) and the majority of my trains run to schedules under AI control.
I have often wondered whether deleting the "interior" tag on these would save processing power.
Does anyone know the answer?

 

[Paulsw2]

DCC for me. Have been promising myself to learn to use CAB mode for about 7 years.

Erm, I have to make the same confession! (thought it's 5, not 7 years)

 

[PWeiser]

Solitaire

At the moment, my ideal session is to have a lot of AIs running busily around on continuous schedules, then thread through them without throwing their schedule too badly out of whack (driving either a passenger special or small freight train). I use cab, keyboard shortcuts almost exculsively, but (again ideally) turn the HUD off and use only the available instrumentation.

Of course you can get away with that easier driving electrics - the only steam is to heat and cool the passengers, and the only expendable is sand!

 

[curtmolloy]

cab mode only for me I'm afraid

 

[D9007_Pinza]

I tried shunting in DCC mode and then cab mode. I've never looked back on DCC mode, except where the locos lack cab mode. Loose shunting in cab mode is much more fun. So is slip-working with andi06's autocoaches.

 

[backyard]

No...

...I have often wondered whether deleting the "interior" tag on these would save processing power.
Does anyone know the answer?

Hello Richard, whilst you can run locomotives with no interior, inside the cab does provide the smoothest operations.

In Cab mode, only the view & actions are cached, while in tracking or flyover mode, you are literally caching the entire habitat.

When you exit cab mode, that cache is deleted & the next view selected is loaded...that's where a 3GB(on Vista) is needed...I get up to 2.2GB active memory pacing a train.

Another hint is when changing locations, if it's not a train, use the Find Object utility...just a few letters & bama-botta-boom, your there.

If you just want a quick check then return to your previous location, hit the X to close the Find Object box & your going back...

 

[SuperFudd]

I only use DCC. I have drivin from the cab. Big whoop. Yes, I do operate from the cab in DCC at times.

 

[rjhowie]

And add me to the CAB "vote".

 

[Dinorius_Redundicus]

I never use cab mode, I prefer to program the AI drivers and see what happens.

 

[Yakutsky]

CAB ofcourse, isn't that the point of having a simulator?