[Question/suggestion] locomotive for all railtypes in TTDP

[maquinista]

I have a question about TTDPatch: It's possible to enable a single locomotive (or wagon) in all railtypes? I mean normal, electric and third railtype (in Spain set, UIC gauge/High speed).

This could be useful in Spain set, because my priority is to keep the compatibility with TTDPatch, and save some IDs in various vehicles that could work in all railtypes.

[DJ Nekkid]

afaik dont PATCH support railtypes, so in general, no

[wallyweb]

afaik dont PATCH support railtypes, so in general, no

The correct answer is that there are three railtypes available to TTDPatch: Standard Gauge, Monorail and Mag-Lev. If an appropriate grf calls for it, then either monorail or Mag-Lev can be replaced by electric standard gauge. Furthermore, the remaining one (monorail or Mag-Lev) can be replaced by Narrow Gauge. The caveat is that you can only have three railtypes at any one time. You also have to set the appropriate configuration line in the TTDPatch configuration file.

[Eddi]

In the first semester of computer science you learn that an answer has to fulfil to two requirements: correctness and completeness. while your answer might fulfil the correctness, it does not fulfil the completeness, because it does not actually answer the original question.

[michael blunck]

@Eddi
It was already answered by DJ Nekkid (TTDPatch doesn´t support the "tracktypes" feature, thus it cannot make use of its "compatibility" mechanism). In the light of that answer, Wally is giving a résumé of the status quo in TTDPatch, just to make things even more clear. Nothing wrong with it.

regards
Michael

[Eddi]

well, he made it sound like the original answer was incorrect.

[WWTBAM]

Well to me it was not entirely (in)correct, so wally made it more clear.

[michael blunck]

well, he made it sound like the original answer was incorrect.

Well,

afaik dont PATCH support railtypes, so in general, no

might not be understandable to everyone.

regards
Michael

[maquinista]

Thanks. It would be a nice feature, because It would save some IDs in TTDPatch, because trains are a bit limited (115 IDs and a tender).

In Spain set I want to merge some wagons (livestock and goods), because they have similar shape. Also, I have merged the class 444 and class 448 because They are almost the same train, but with a bit different gears.

Maybe, I could try to add the same locomotive ID as tender in locomotives that have it or have articulated parts.

But for the moment, there are ~10 IDs free in Spain set, but maybe in the future I could fill all of them.

[michael blunck]

[sparing veh-IDs]

Maybe, I could try to add the same locomotive ID as tender in locomotives [...]

IMO, it would be more straightforward to have one single veh-ID for all tenders. Using the same veh-ID would be useful for MU composition, though.

regards
Michael