leezer3
[Request] Return to the decoupled power car
Description
During shunting operations, sometimes I accidentally decouple the power car without leaving the trailer group, which prevents me from returning to the power car. I can only operate the brakes of the trailer group I am in, I cannot drive.
I hope to have the option to switch to a decoupled car.
Error repeatedly opening issue, but I want to reuse it.
I have seen this, and I'll try and do something. May be another week or two before I actually get to implementing a prototype.
What I think you actually want is a Switch Train menu :) Same thing basically as the main game menu and switch menu, just with a list of all trains in the simulation.
(One of the things I'll have to check is TFOs; They're not actually the same as trains, and I'm not sure without playing with it as to whether we can actually easily implement it so they're switchable too, which would actually be quite interesting)
Hmm, been looking at this, and we've got one of the design issues here again...
The issue I'm seeing here is that we've got no useful way to identify to our player the trains in the simulation. Obviously, at the minute this isn't really an issue as we've got a few pre-trains and some TFOs, but what this needs is a way to display a textual description of the train in our Select Train dialog.
I suppose we could display the train.txt / XML description, but that's rather generic, as opposed to what should be a route specific path.
Also needs thinking about as to how we place loose cars for potential pickup, as these would benefit from said description.
Still thinking.....