Atomic Systems

Hi guys, I just downloaded the fantastic looking Port Ogden route and have run into my old nemesis, the turn table.

How do you get the thing to move? I swear I've hit every key on this keyboard a hundred times and can't figure it out.

Cheers.

Pressing the G key or SHIFT+G will operate the turntable but you have to ensure that your loco is centralised on the turntable or it wont turn.

stewart wrote:Pressing the G key or SHIFT+G will operate the turntable but you have to ensure that your loco is centralised on the turntable or it wont turn.

Well in Port Ogden all starting locomotives are on the wrong tracks to actually get onto the thing to start with. Hmm...

Edit

Never mind, it's working now. Thanks alot!

Pressing G or SHIFT+G should also bring the turntable round to the track your loco is on.

Some the longer locos appear to have to be nicely balanced on them turntables for it to actually turn... Not sure if this is meant to be the case, but is in real life so we'll say it is

One of them things everyone at RSDL assumed people would automatically know:


http://forums.flightsim.com/ts/dcboard. ... page=#4305

1. Start free play.
2. Use up arrow key to move forward, hold down RIGHT mouse button and steer with mouse.
3. "Fly" over to a service, you need to get pretty close to it, LEFT click on the service to use that service.
4. If the turntable isn't already aligned for you, hit the G key to bring it around so you can drive onto it.
5. After driving on the turntable and stopping, hit G or SHIFT G to rotate to the desired exit.
6. Hit the #9 key to bring up the 2D map, RIGHT click and drag to move the map, mouse wheel to zoom in and out, SHIFT left click on the blue dots to set up your path. In free play there's no preset path, G will change the switch immediately ahead of you, but you can set multiple switches up to two miles away with the 2D map.

G and SHIFT G or the F3 window or SHIFT clicking on blue dots in the 2D map or clicking directly on manual levers all work for changing switches, but the only thing that works for the turntables or transfer table is G and SHIFT G, the others don't do squat.

BTW, when you start free play if you have selected a loco you can hit #8 and fly to any other engine within two miles and select that one to change over to it, if you haven't selected a loco yet you can fly anywhere on the route with no two mile limit. Service #8 over at Topatchamee (northeast of the starting place) is already aligned with the turntable. Reason I didn't do all of them like that is because turntables are buggy, and they seem to crash less often if you don't try to hook track to the exit the table is aligned with by default. That affects strictly the editor, as far as I can tell they're stable as a - well, stable as a turntable in the game itself. One reported bug so far, guy drove onto the table and it lined up with the exit track but the blue line in the 2D map appeared momentarily then disappeared, derailed when trying to exit. To fix that he downloaded the zip and installed it again, sometimes you do get corrupted files that pass the CRC checksum anyway, so for any download the first step in troubleshooting is to download it again.