Articulated Road Vehicles

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 18 Apr 2006 23:04

What happened?

George · Post by **George** » 19 Apr 2006 04:20

stevenh wrote:
George wrote:I've tried to make articulated RV to visit normal station
If that didn't work then it wouldn't surprise me...
This branch of development is now on hold until further notice.

The save shows it. Vehicles become split

stevenh · Post by **stevenh** » 19 Apr 2006 04:56

krtaylor wrote:What happened?

I need to rewrite the code i've created.

Currently the vehicles are able to think tooooo much and it's causing great problems.
I'll be working on this in spare time, no hope is lost... but I'll need a lot of spare time.

George wrote:The save shows it. Vehicles become split

Yeah, that's the main issue with those bloody stops... It'll all get sorted in due time...

Sorry for raising everyone's hopes so soon!

Ramshill · Post by **Ramshill** » 19 Apr 2006 06:51

WE are just glad SOMEONE is trying!

I know you will get there in the end, so good luck.

ISA · Post by **ISA** » 19 Apr 2006 11:19

Ramshill wrote:WE are just glad SOMEONE is trying!
I know you will get there in the end, so good luck.

Go go go stevenh. We all know You can make it possible!

Aegir · Post by **Aegir** » 19 Apr 2006 13:10

Yeah, you've pulled off some crazy stuff in your time, stevenh, I trust you'll pull this off somehow

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George · Post by **George** » 19 Apr 2006 14:22

stevenh wrote:
George wrote:The save shows it. Vehicles become split
Yeah, that's the main issue with those bloody stops... It'll all get sorted in due time...
Sorry for raising everyone's hopes so soon!

We all believe in you

Wile E. Coyote · Post by **Wile E. Coyote** » 19 Apr 2006 15:00

Nothing is impossible... We believe in you Steven!

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 19 Apr 2006 15:11

And we'll give you time, 6 hours to be precise [/joke].

lws1984 · Post by **lws1984** » 19 Apr 2006 16:11

All the time you need, you can even borrow my time machine!

Seriously, good luck, we sincerely hope you get it right.

RK · Post by RK » 19 Apr 2006 23:09

It's not a good idea to capitulate now, after you reached so much.

stevenh · Post by **stevenh** » 28 May 2006 12:12

*breathes life back into this project*...

Peeps, more work has been done, I believe it's baked enough for a taster.
Currently I'm having collision issues at drive-thru busstops, seems that trailers get confused and disappear on the next corner.
Don't even mention 'normal' bus stops (bays)... they're to be worked on next.
And there seems to be cool traffic jams every now and then, but that's because I had a huge amount of diverging traffic in one location.

Anyway, enjoy... and as per usual, comments are welcome.

edit: ... of course, see the first post for the files!
edit again: ... if you happen to get an aRV driving around without it's trailers, send it to a depot, then UTurn it and send it to the depot again and it'll be fixed. It's no 'special move', it's just the way the turn-cache works.

RK · Post by RK » 28 May 2006 12:31

wow, it works very smooth now! Of how many parts can a vehicle consist now?

stevenh · Post by **stevenh** » 28 May 2006 12:32

uhmm... that's a good question, I have not tried more than three.
There is currently no hard-coded limit. So, add some more and tell me what happens

btw, you still have to code them in the GRF, there is no ability to 'attach' vehicles in the depots.

RK · Post by RK » 29 May 2006 15:33

I want to point out, that the trailers are running very smooth now, instead of this jerking in the last revision.

stevenh wrote:uhmm... that's a good question, I have not tried more than three.
There is currently no hard-coded limit. So, add some more and tell me what happens

btw, you still have to code them in the GRF, there is no ability to 'attach' vehicles in the depots.

When I specify more than 2 trailers, it shows only 2 trailers anyway.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 29 May 2006 22:16

Other than Australia, is there anywhere where more than 2 trailers are seen?

stevenh · Post by **stevenh** » 29 May 2006 22:47

RK, please send me your GRF.
krtaylor, in Japan, some of the trams had up to 5 parts.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 30 May 2006 02:42

Hmm, that seems quite a few. Mostly I have seen two, or three actually but only two visible. As for road vehicles, in the US you will have a cab and two trailers sometimes, but not more. I know the Aussies have road-trains of more, but I don't know how many.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 30 May 2006 03:22

krtaylor wrote:As for road vehicles, in the US you will have a cab and two trailers sometimes, but not more.

I'm pretty sure I've seen triples on 80/90. (Northern Indiana and Ohio.)

And Aussies will quite happily attach five or more trailers to one prime mover. The record is, I believe, over one hundred trailers. (116? 121?)
[EDIT: The Guinness Book of World Records says the record is 113.]

stevenh · Post by **stevenh** » 30 May 2006 03:43

3-Trailer Road Vehicles are scary enough to overtake (even if there is no speed limit).

...anyway... back on track...:

Introducting Revision 6:
-Drive-Thru Truck Stops
-You can no longer send aRVs to 'normal' stations. (I may change this later, but they don't seem to fit the mould anyway...) [would prefer to create new station styles]
-DO NOT ALLOW aRVs TO ENTER NORMAL STOPS (ie. if they're at the end of a dead-end road)... the game will currently crash.

as per usual, see the first thread.

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