Atomic Systems

Is there any chance that the class 86 and 450 could spark from there electrical connections? I really thought that this would feature as part of the locos already but for some reason its been ommitted.

Is there any plan to make them spark please?

Thanks

Simon

In principle it should just be the case of adding a child object with a flashing light to create the arc - same principle as a tail lamp. That is of course putting it much more easily than doing it.

Personally I thought it looked pretty silly having stock flashing while stationary and at regular intervals. It would be much better if we could have some way of triggering it when the train crossed a specific point such as a junction in the OHLE. You could use the same principle for triggering sounds, animation.... the possibilities are endless.

Been looking at 3rd rail arcing, but you need to bury signals at every single conductor rail ramp to make it work properly. Arcing on the pantograph is a lot easier, you can script that to stop when the train stops.

The 390 does not spark when stationery as far as i recall. Not used it in a while.

bdy26 wrote:In principle it should just be the case of adding a child object with a flashing light to create the arc - same principle as a tail lamp. That is of course putting it much more easily than doing it.

Personally I thought it looked pretty silly having stock flashing while stationary and at regular intervals. It would be much better if we could have some way of triggering it when the train crossed a specific point such as a junction in the OHLE. You could use the same principle for triggering sounds, animation.... the possibilities are endless.

Ive seen some stock with electric sparking, I beleive one of them was the Standard Stock (LT), that looked the business.

Dark.

darkdj wrote:Ive seen some stock with electric sparking, I beleive one of them was the Standard Stock (LT), that looked the business.

Trouble is, I think that sparks when stationary and it does look rather odd to my mind.

To solve that there could be 2 different models one with sparkign one without.

yerkes wrote:

darkdj wrote:Ive seen some stock with electric sparking, I beleive one of them was the Standard Stock (LT), that looked the business.

Trouble is, I think that sparks when stationary and it does look rather odd to my mind.

Stationary sparks are easy to fix: Train moving - sparks. Train not moving, no sparks. Not really convinced emitters are the way to go there though.

Thomson/Totalize seem to have done it superbly with the class 380.


Mike

Like this?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slyRo5lM ... re=related

And people wonder why the southern rail network grinds to a halt in the snow!

gypbrc wrote:And people wonder why the southern rail network grinds to a halt in the snow!

Yeah... the trains weld themselves to the third rails...