Instant Zeroing of Throttles and Train Brakes

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Some progress has been made by Carlo Santtuci speeding up the instant zeroing of locos driving controls in X3217:

Ctrl-A to instantly Zero the throttle.
Ctrl-; to do the same with releasing the train brakes.

Still some work to be done to make the console dials show correct values and Shift-? still has to be used with some locos to fully release train brakes !

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/t...es-zeroing.wmv

[baldwin]

While the throttle and brakes may well have quick close or release, the actual engine will take time to wind down and the air in the pipes will staill take a bit of time to fully exhaust, so the dials not showing instant zero would in fact be correct. As for using Shift/ to initialise train brakes, I am slowly working through my trainset to remove that by making small changes to the brake system data.

TripleValveRatio( 2.5 )
MaxReleaseRate( 50.0 )
MaxApplicationRate( 50.0 )
MaxAuxilaryChargingRate( 20.0 )
EmergencyResCapacity( "1.5*(ft^3)" )
EmergencyResChargingRate( 20.0 ) in the wag files and

AirBrakesMainResVolume( 14.5 ) in the eng file

Gives me full brake release in not a lot of time, the length of which depends on the length of the train.

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While the throttle and brakes may well have quick close or release, the actual engine will take time to wind down and the air in the pipes will staill take a bit of time to fully exhaust, so the dials not showing instant zero would in fact be correct. As for using Shift/ to initialise train brakes, I am slowly working through my trainset to remove that by making small changes to the brake system data. Gives me full brake release in not a lot of time, the length of which depends on the length of the train.

I would prefer for it to work like it does in TANE 2015, without having to make any changes in any rolling stock files, many users have difficulties with editing !

Here I am showing what the response of the Ctrl-A / ; keys is with this ICE-3 in the Wupper-Express-11:

Ctrl-; moves the train brakes lever to Zero.
D / mouse throttle, nothing happens.
Shift-? the train moves.
Ctrl-A moves throttle to Zero.
' applying brake.

http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/video/o...tle-brakes.wmv

What needs to be programmed is to add the Shift-? function to the end of the Ctrl-; function !

P.S.: Carlo is working on the latter !

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Almost forgot to mention that Carlo has now made the Ctrl-; train brakes release working as it should in X3222 !

Thanks, Carlo !