Some kind of weird thing in cab changing and decoupling

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Junafani
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Some kind of weird thing in cab changing and decoupling

Post by Junafani »

Hi! I brought Railworks in the Steam sale and now I have a question.

I was playing The Day The Sheep Stood Still scenario and when I needed to change to another locomotive in the train I could not get train to move until I went back to original locomotive and released the brakes from there. That makes sense, as brakes applied in another locomotive in the same train would keep train brakes on.

But then I had to change back to original locomotive and decouple rest of the train. So I applied brakes in locomotive that I was driving, switched locomotives and then I decoupled the rest of the train. After that I tried to start driving, but my locomotive would not move. I put full power, tried reverser forward and backwards, tried applying brakes and then releasing them, but nothing worked. Locomotive just decided to stand there. Apparently sheeps weren't only thing that wanted to stand still. :roll:

I guess that this was because I had applied brakes in that another locomotive before I changed locomotive and decoupled. Of course that decoupled locomotive should not affect anyting, but looks like I was hit by a some kind of weird bug. Or did I do something wrong?
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Re: Some kind of weird thing in cab changing and decoupling

Post by ttjph »

I found this bug too (and I think it is a bug - RW seems to get confused about which loco you're driving when there is more than one in the consist).

IIRC, to get round it, after arriving in the siding driving from the 'rear' loco, I set the reverser to neutral then switched cabs to the 'front' (original) loco, set the reverser to forwards and moved the whole train a few yards. Then I stopped and uncoupled, and I think after this it worked properly.

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Re: Some kind of weird thing in cab changing and decoupling

Post by transadelaide »

I think it stems from a physics thing. I've noticed lately that the speed seems to flicker between 0.0 and 0.1 intermittently when you're stationary. You can change cabs only when you're completely stationary, so if the moment you press the button is a moment where the program sees it as moving even the tiniest bit you'll just have the view change rather than the actual cab change.

Leaving the brakes on is not what causes it, when you switch cabs all control is properly switched to the new active cab.
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