Lights not illuminating in the reverse direction

[rohitrkrishnan]

Sir,

I have one problem with open rails v 0.9. Consider a locomotive pulling 18 coaches (single loco). At one station it has to reverse its direction. then the locomotive has to be shunted and to be attached to the rear end of the train. We have the provision for changing the cab by pressing Ctrl+E.But after attaching to the rear end at night and moving in the reverse direction it is seen that the engine lights don't work when moving in the reverse direction. But in m.s.t.s., if m.s.t.s. bin is installed, in reverse direction the lights will work i.e., illumination will be there in the reverse direction. Hence it requested to make necessary modifications in the next experimental release on wards.

THIS IS THE CASE OF A SINGLE LOCO BEING SHUNTED TO THE REAR END OF THE TRAIN WITH CTRL + E BEING PRESSED

Regards,

Rohit R. Krishnan.

[Tejesember (tejes)]

I made a patch to fix this problem.
It sets lightDrawer.CarIsReversed to true when LeadLocomotive.UsingRearCab is true. It also creates a reversed light cone for every defined cone in the eng file, because MSTS Bin did so.

[Peter Gulyas (pzgulyas)]

Patch committed as r1738.

[rohitrkrishnan (rohitrkrishnan88)]

Sir, One problem still exists. For a single loco after moving into reverse cab,lights will illuminate in the reverse direction. But in reverse mode if that loco is being attached to a consist, that light will vanish i.e., there will be utter darkness. Please correct this in the next experimental release.

[rohitrkrishnan (rohitrkrishnan88)]

Sir, One problem still exists. For a single loco after moving into reverse
cab,lights will illuminate in the reverse direction. But in reverse mode if
that loco is being attached to a consist, that light will vanish i.e.,
there will be utter darkness. Please correct this in the next experimental
release.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Tejesember <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Patch added: "Lights.cs.patch"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/or/+bug/1211755/+attachment/3798357/+files/Lights.cs.patch
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> Title:
> Lights not illuminating in the reverse direction
>
> Status in Open Rails Tracker:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Sir,
>
> I have one problem with open rails v 0.9. Consider a locomotive
> pulling 18 coaches (single loco). At one station it has to reverse its
> direction. then the locomotive has to be shunted and to be attached to
> the rear end of the train. We have the provision for changing the cab
> by pressing Ctrl+E.But after attaching to the rear end at night and
> moving in the reverse direction it is seen that the engine lights
> don't work when moving in the reverse direction. But in m.s.t.s., if
> m.s.t.s. bin is installed, in reverse direction the lights will work
> i.e., illumination will be there in the reverse direction. Hence it
> requested to make necessary modifications in the next experimental
> release on wards.
>
> THIS IS THE CASE OF A SINGLE LOCO BEING SHUNTED TO THE REAR END OF THE
> TRAIN WITH CTRL + E BEING PRESSED
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rohit R. Krishnan.
>
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[Tejesember (tejes)]

The problem is that when you connect to the end of a consist, your loco becomes the last car in the train. This can be solved by reversing the (theoretical) order of the cars in the train when the player couples to the rear end of a consist.
Will look into it.

[rohitrkrishnan (rohitrkrishnan88)]

Kindly rectify the problem in the next experimental release onwards.

[Cédric GNIEWEK (sharpeserana)]

Does the problem still happen with version 1.4?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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