#8 View Switchman Mode.

[tscraftsman]

Just wondering if it would be possible to make moving the camera in the forward direction with the up arrow on the keyboard in the #8. Kinda like in first person shooter games instead of crab walking side step with the left or right direction arrow keys. Currently the up and down arrow keys control the camera elevation which is handy but I like to stay at actual ground and eye level. The reason being I use the #8 view sorta like a switchman or conductor view for lining switches in the yard and then spotting the loco or car up and going into the #6 view to ride the point of the move. Gives way way more realism to my yard activities. This is similar to what Run8 has but no need to go as far as programming a lantern lol.

I got another idea that I have been meaning to try for multiplayer sessions. Just wondering if it would be possible for more than just the engineer (shared control) of the train to use the #6 view so in theory you could have a conductor or switchman giving you train movement directions VIA teamspeak or skype as your preforming switching movements this would really be fun to get into and would bring more of a team feel to the simulator. The engineer would stick with the cabview and rely on his conductor as his eyes. Conductor would also have control of tieing on and releasing handbrakes, cutting in the air to a cut of cars etc.

[jjtang]

You can use Alt-9 to jump to that train, and then hit 6, see what happens :-)

Only cab view will always be sticked to the player train, other cameras will follow the train you select using Alt-9.

P.S., in the dispatcher window, you can use left mouse key to select a switch, and then Ctrl-Alt-G to jump to watch that switch in the game window (#8 camera).