Assistance with Open Rails

[launchy]

Hello,

I need assistance about the commands we use to uncouple Loco from the rake. I play Indian Routes in Open Rails and face trouble with activities that involve Loco Reversal. After I uncouple, Loco brakes are applied and it doesn't even move, neither forward nor reverse. Please guide about the procedure.


Launchy

[baldwin]

The loco brakes are applied because when you uncouple you also disconnect the brakepipe. This causes the loco brakes to apply. Pressing Shift and / together will close the open cock and initialise the brakes again. If you want to do this action in the prototype manner, I suggest that you read the Open Rails manual section 8.6.

[launchy]

Thanks a ton !!

[launchy]

Hey,

After we start a new activity for the first time, Loco/Rake is provided with full dynamic brakes applied. How to quickly release those brakes? I keep on pressing "<" and ";" keys, but that still takes 2-3 minutes. Any help with this ?


Launchy

[baldwin]

There is no fast way to release dynamic brakes, but it should not be taking more than 15 seconds anyway. Is this a downloaded activity or one you are making?

[geepster775]

Initial brake state is determined from the ENG file paramaters. Since dynamics cannot hold a train still, it seems silly to set them in the ENG file to come in at 100%. Sounds like content creators somewhere don't know what dynamic brakes are for

[launchy]

Baldwin,

This is a downloaded activity. And, not only this, but most of other activities have the same thing. I never succeeded in releasing these brakes in 15 seconds. If that happens, I'm gonna party hard :-D

Geepster,

I think you're right. Is it feasible to edit parameters in ENG file?

[baldwin]

Are these activities made by the same person, or for the same route.

Eng file parameters can be edited, using a Unicode aware editor, Wordpad is one such app. Compare the suspect eng file with a known good one first.
The control is defined by a block of data like - ControlName ( <min-val> <max-val> <step-val> <default-val> The last value should be 0 if the control is off.

I have checked about 20 of my Indian locos and none so far has the dynamic brake set on in the eng file.

[launchy]

There are activities made by same person, and sometimes for same route by different person(s).

About the file editing part, I'll experiment with few Indian locos. Let's see how it goes.