First single from our next album:
tom87 Genau. Could be good, could be bad. Time will tell.
I’m thinking now is the time to back up your entire TS installation….or at least i’m going to do that.
It’s a bug with AP v1 weather TOD files. And once you have installed them you can’t go back, unless you backed up the original files. AP fixed the “fog at night” problem in version 2.
While you are trying those things, here is another one for you to try. This one works and is a fantastic addition. If you are like me, you like a bit of randomness in the game (that is why i do my real drives (advanced quick drives) that have random red signals).
So i’ve been experimenting with what AP weather can do in quick drives.
Try the following:
1: Clone a quick drive scenario. Remember to modify the starting point friendly name in the Player Spawn point because this is the name of the scenario that you will see in the quick drive menu.
2: Edit the scenario: in the scenario flyout box, click the cogwheels for the extended scenario parameters. Select AP Weather instead of “None”
2: in the object filter box, choose AP Weather EP: now you are set to go to use AP weather in QD.
3: Drop an AP weather Swep marker anywhere. Double click it. Type in the triggername for Random showers with fair/high cloud as base. (Can’t remember the exact name, going from memory). Set the max time between showers to about 120 (or even 240) minutes.
What you have now is a quick drive where you might get anything from light rain to heavy rain, once or twice (or sometimes not at all) during your quick drive. It works regardless of what non-rain weather pattern you set in the quick drive menu. The one you select there will be the one that the random showers transitions to and from.
This is just the base of it. What you can also in addition to what i described, is drop a pass marker some where on the line and use a weather transition that has a base in clear/high/fair cloud. And if you use the ;P=x (x being the probability in % code in the speed limit box, you can (as an example) have the scenario go in th thick fog in rare cases “APFairCloud-ThickFog;P=5 would give you fog in 1/20 times you pass the marker.
I also tried the Thunder transition and what’s amazing is that it actually morphes BACK into the Random Shower pattern. That one simply seems to be able to sit behind everything else as a base pattern. So it’ll still do it’s magic once the thunder is over. And as i said, if you set the max time between showers high enough, you will have a truly random feeling weather, because you might not even get one shower. But then again you might have one or two.
I think i’ve only dipped my feet in this. As you know QD scenarios are my niche, and this is an unexpected huge enhancement, because AP didn’t even know any of this was possible.
Anyway, hope i made sense. And good fun modifying your quickdrives to actually make them interesting in their changing visuals. And remembet, if you run english routes, you cam get random red signalling easy woth the help of his signal pack. The more random stuff that happens, the more alive TS feels.
Thankyou for your work and your contributions to the community. I will miss you here! If you are in problems i hope they work out allright in the end.
I am thinking of buying this loc, but i see people mentioning that there is an error in the PZB. What is the error?
It’s stated in the article, that their beta version is already more stable.
No. Pantograf is down when used as AI. Sadly.
I wonder if there is anywhere in the code where that can be changed.
Good news. Really good.
Noch ein Tip. Set the quick drive to Cloudy.
Set a “weather st startup” trigger. Input the first “random showers” pattern (can’t remember the trigger name) in the speed limit box.
Drive the scenario. A fully working random dynamic weather. Have patience. Since it’s random you might have to drive some time before you see the change.
143er Das ist interesting. Ich habe die selbe Bug in 32bit immer gehabt.
I think i might use more spawn points than most. Sometimes over a hundred in a scenario. Most of them crash the 32 bit editor to an OOM error when i try to open them.
Man muss auch auspassen das die (oder der oder das, bin micht Deütsch) tracks.bin nicht zu gross wird. Dann kan man nicht viel in Quick Drives machen. One of the annoying TS bugs is that if the tracks.bin gets too large, ai spawnpoints go corrupt.
Absolute fantastic!!!!
You can put the following into a translator:
I write in english, because if i wrote in German you would be complaining about Rechtschreibung and Zeichensetzung.
You can reply in German, i understand it well. But to be blunt, if you dont want to read what i write, the way i write it, just don’t read it!!!!
I’ve been doing it for the 5 years i’ve been here, you should have sussed that out by now. English is not against the forum rules. And the day that changes, i’ll leave the forum, and have everything taken down that i’ve contributed in knowledge of complex quick drive scenarios.
So you can now chose to live with my presence, or loose what i’ve contributed to this forum. Your choice!!!
TomB In QD you need to trigger a “basic” weather first, because you can’t choose weather in the scenario flyout the same way as a timetabled scenario. So the workaround is to use the “load weather at startup” trigger for that. After that you just proceed as described in the manual, using pass triggers.
Rosenkill What is the name of the facebook page?
TomB The first trigger is the “load weather at startup” trigger.
Already now i’m implementing it like this.
One quick drive without triggers.
The same in a version with random triggers, triggering (sometimes) random weather changes. Just like my real drives, with random red signals, the weather is randomised, and to much more than 7 weather patterns. If you are only driving with the limited standard options, you are missing out on a huge improvement in the visual experience.
TomB For me the improvement is having many more “vibes” in qd. Instead of only 7. It simply puts me in a different mood, driving with haze, than with a clear sky.
Patti98 The one way of doing does not rule the other out. We can have both. And that is a great thing.
It’s all about having choice.
Ist nicht möglich.
Both the swep trigger and the pass trigger actually works in qd. Even dynamic weather can be used to dome extent, eventhough is is officially unsupported.
