bod i wish i had a trains control desk in my garage.... maybe if i look under all the junk i might find one??
i've been mesing about making some controls for the past few months,
one of leo bodnares excelent boards does most of the interfacing, but i also have a button panel i made for the world of subways 2 game, that has a hacked usb gamepad in it, saitek throttle quadrant is pretty self explanatry, yes there's a steering wheel and pedals on the desk, as i've recently been playing 'omsi' an excelent bus driving sim from the blokes who made the brilliant F92 u-bahn train for BVE as well as some routes of the berlin u-bahn networks,
also out of shot is a gear shifter i made, totally from scratch, the rot presses buttons in the double H gate, which go thru a hacked game pad (with the registry changed to make it look like a logitec shifter) made me own as it's cheaper and i wanted a bus style, i.e. it sits on the floor and has a 3 foot long stick, rather than the short stick car style you can buy.
anyway, so far i just have a brake lever, reverser lever (right hand side) and a sort of power handle, plan is to get a proper master controler handle off a tube train, but not had much luck finding one,
The levers connect to pots, which go thru the leo bodnare board to the computer, and cadde's rail works joystick interface,
got plans to make more controls, but need money for the raw materials (chunks of 5 inch diamiter alli or delrin etc)
all the switches are industrial ones, would love some real railway cab switches, but again i cant find them... need a friendly train scrap yard who would let me loose with a screwdriver,
BTW, the main reason i posted here, check out the railworks joystick threds, cadde wrote hisversion of a railworks joystick driver, and he was playing and got outputs of most things, brake pressure, speed, motor current etc, he was going to make it all so it'd output to seperate mini screens with guages rendered on them,
he lost interest over summer, and isnt really back into it, but ask him if he can help with the outputs,
when i get my controls all sorted, i want to make guages and indicator lights, but the problem is railworks inst really realisticenough for that, i.e. drive a german train, it only does an AWS type buzzer when you pass a yellow signal, in no way does it replicate the indusi which is different alarms/lights for different speed limits the signals are displaying, but look at people who made videos of them playing on zusi or even BVE, they seem to replicate all the in cab safety systems, but at the expense of the eye candy which makes railworks so nice,
