Please help, can triggers work more then once, should they?

[Williamb73]

Hi Trainz community, I'm TS12 49922, I'm working in surveyor to get this to work.

I am currently doing some automated sessions for my Bakersfield Sub in which real trains I've recorded and modeled in trainz come from a portal, stage, wait for the train leaving the single main to exit thru a portal in which he hits a trigger that starts the waiting train and he hits a trigger to switch the track. This does work! BUT, when the next trainz arrive the triggers on the sidings go dead. Well the ones to ie. TRIGGER RULE-SWITCH JUNCTIONS. hmmmmmm.

I've even tried to use a ATLS Trigger/Controller/Slave with a little invisible track and placing the trigger on it. hmmmmm? should work like the crossing gates but I just don't know? I even tried ORDERED LIST-TRIGGER RULE-SWITCH JUNCTIONS-REPEAT LIST. If you know how to get triggers to work more then once please help, I would like to upload these to complement my route.

Thank you Trainz Community.

Will-I-Am

 

[stagecoach]

Make sure all the train has exited the portal before any trigger commands are used. If it passes a trigger to early it wont be activated on.

 

[pware]

Triggers will work ("fire") every time a train passes over or stops close to them - there is a distance setting in the trigger properties you can alter that will fine tune this. It is the rule (use the Trigger Check Rule - don't use the older and now obsolete Trigger Rule) that you use in the Session Rules that will interpret any message from the trigger and will determine whether or not the "firing" of the trigger has any effect.

You can set a trigger (through the Trigger Check Rule) to cause a behaviour response (e.g. show a message popup, throw a switch, start another train, etc):-

• only once or every time
• only when it has been activated by a certain consist (with a wide range of options) or a certain driver
• a combination of the above

You can have a hundred trains pass over the trigger and it will "fire" every time but you set the Trigger Check Rule to either respond to every firing or only to the ones that meet the criteria you have specified in the rule. I have successfully used triggers in single and multiple firing modes with and without selection criteria.

 

[Williamb73]

Going to check this out.
Thank you.

 

[Roy3b3]

There is also a helpful tutorial about 'Triggers" on 'Twitch TV" - worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfFyxhitSnI&feature=youtu.be

Cheers,
Roy3b3