Diagonal Rail-Road crossings

[GoneWacko]

Hmm I think it would be great if diagonal crossings were available.
With the original TTD, you have to break your nice diagonal line when you reach a road, Which sucks because it adds TWO turns to the track.

So attached is an image I just wipped up.

I am aware that it would take two cells, but surely you can make it in such a way that it automatically builds the other cell as well? (Maybe even highlight this cell as well to make clear you're building an overpass)

Possible?

[Bjarni]

It have to turn on ealier than the ones we have now because it takes longer for cars to cross. The current ones activates by entering trains ON TILE, which makes it a bit difficult to make a proper code for sooner activation.
Another problem is that the current ones deactivate when a train leaves the tile, which means it will deactivate when the train leaves one of the tiles
Yet another problem is that the code "knows" that a crossing is always one tile, so everywhere the code is doing something about a crossing, it looks at ONE TILE

That makes it a hard thing to do. It might be done after ealier activation is done, and AFAIK nobody is working on that at the moment

[SirkoZ]

To make it simple for the time being - why not just implement bridges, that can cross 45° angled railway?
Kills 2 flies in one swoop.

[jixor]

I would also like to see diagonal able to pass under a bridge. When you build one diagonal under a bridge it could automatically build the other part.

[Born Acorn]

To make it simple for the time being - why not just implement bridges, that can cross 45° angled railway?
Kills 2 flies in one swoop.

because busses and lorries slow down, and it costs way more.

[Wolf01]

It have to turn on ealier than the ones we have now because it takes longer for cars to cross. The current ones activates by entering trains ON TILE, which makes it a bit difficult to make a proper code for sooner activation.
Another problem is that the current ones deactivate when a train leaves the tile, which means it will deactivate when the train leaves one of the tiles
Yet another problem is that the code "knows" that a crossing is always one tile, so everywhere the code is doing something about a crossing, it looks at ONE TILE

That makes it a hard thing to do. It might be done after ealier activation is done, and AFAIK nobody is working on that at the moment

and to do it like semaphores? when the train pass the last semaphore before of the crossing, the barriers will be turned on

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    o           \   \|            o
----|------------\---\------------|-------
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    o            \  _\            o
----|-------------\---\-----------|-------
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######              \_  \

Railway
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Signal
o
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Road
\ \
\ \

Bariers open
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and closed
\_ \

Train
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the crossing is not a signal, but works inverse, it becomes "red" before the train pass it, and still "red" until the train pass another signal
Wolf01

[Bjarni]

what if the signal block is 50 tiles long? Should the crossing be activated forever? Should it deactivate when the train passes the road(it is still in the signal block)

what if the train turns before the crossing? Crossing deactivates if a train leaves the tile

I guess it can be coded if any of you can think of a clever way to solve all of there problems