Oh, I see! Then yes, it would make sense to take it out for the 3rd rail engines.michael blunck wrote: Although it´s possible to move the location of the spark effect alongside the locomotive, it´s not really possible to move it in height, except by an "action0A" (sprite replacement). But this would affect all electric engines, not only those 3rd rail ones.
Best thing would be to switch off the effect for 3rd rail.
Yes, this is intended. Chemins de Fer de la Provence ever had any 3rd class coachesdandan wrote:1. If you build a 230T with bogie coaches and refit to "Chemin de fer de la Provence", the refit option for third class disappears.
Perhaps I should document it better.I see your point... perhaps the list as it is now might be confusing. Especially, the 021T doesn't stand out and it might look like just a normal loco, while it's actually a rackrail engine. I'll try to find a solution for this.dandan wrote:2. I think it would be good to include the traction type for each powered vehicle in the name, as in most other sets. This may be a bit cheesy, but without this it becomes cumbersome to browse the purchase menu for an electric or rackrail locomotive if you don't know your way around in the set.
Quite an interesting feedback. I think I see what you mean.dandan wrote:3. I do not find the small passenger coaches used with the Sécheron completely convincing, at least compared to the others. The diagonal views seem a bit muddled and look more like goods wagons to me.
In reality, those coaches had many side doors (1 per compartment, per side), so their sides appeared, if you will, to be visually "broken" by many vertical lines, corresponding to those doors. I tried to recreate this effect by alternating light and dark vertical lines on my models. But perhaps, in the diagonal views, I kind of overdid and put too much contrast, so those vertical breaks are too prominent (hence they look like freight cars).
The early wagons for the CF Corses have a similar texturing, but perhaps they look a little bit better because they're all painted dark green. With other colors, instead (such as the light brown of the "La Mure" coaches you mentioned), the contrast becomes a bit to strong.
This is an important point, because in the standard gauge set, there will be many old-timer coaches with similar doors, which will exhibit the same effect. So I'll make sure I revise them when I add the missing vehicles to this set.
The mixed coach will change depending on the presence or not of short pax wagons in the train. If a short pax coach is present, the train will be "local" and short mixed wagons will appear; OTOH, if there are no short pax coaches, long mixed wagons will appear. My mistake was to was only check for the wagons *after* the mixed wagon, as opposed to checking *in the whole consist*. That's why the mixed wagon was "short" in the 1st case (short pax coach at the end of the train) and "long" in the 2nd case (short pax coach at the head of the train).
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