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Article #28110Re: 2.0.1 alpha 41
From: DJTB
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:32
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:32
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Josef Drexler wrote: > > Hi all, > > after a few weeks of waiting, here's the latest alpha version available > at http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ > > This one has a bunch of *major* new features. > > The first new feature is called "path based signalling". It allows > several trains into a signal block as long as their paths don't > interfere, and it greatly enhances all station entrances and exits as > well as most junctions. However, it is somewhat dangerous and takes some > care to use right, so please read the manual page before trying to use it > (or else you may get train crashes): http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki- > index.php?page=PathBasedSignalling Here's a suggestion to prevent train crashes: * forbid trains to reverse/change direction in an interchange block I've made a Y-junction, a 'lost' used this junction as a tail track ie it reversed within the interchange block (it seems it didn't obey its path??) At the same moment, another train entered the interchange block (the original paths were not crossing), but since the first trained reversed direction, both trains crashed.
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