Eds Trains SW1500 set question for OR

[bwbrgb]

You have some options to see the rear view in a single cab switcher or other engine with a rear window .
You can replace the right side view with the " rear.ace " and use the "head out " for the right view .
You can use the #5 view for the rear .
With a double cab like a GE 44t then use the reverse cab for operation or the other a fore mentioned options .
They work because I've used them for many years .

Just a suggestion !

[geepster775]

I would not look forward to having to release the independents, applying the train brake, and centering my reverser, and jump cabs just to turn my seat around to look out the back window as I back into a spur and make a pickup that avoids bashing the car, and then having to do that process all over again just to return my seat to the forward view to pull out of the spur. If I had a 3 unit set of these end cab switchers, it would take 6 CTRL+Es to look back and 6 more to look forward again.

The cab switching feature is designed for more potent uses in Open Rails that simply turning my head.

Sure, deploy two cabs for engines like the AEM7 or ACS64 with two legitimate cabs. Or with situations like the 44-tonner where MU'ing with other power is non-existant. But someday when MSTS is dead and buried and other vendors get around to making complex activities for open rails that involve cab swaps, engine setouts, operating crew moving from one end of a 8-unit consist to the other end, etc, then the inadequacy of deploying such a needless double cab protocol for this purpose will become more apparent. Especially when it is easier to sacrifice the most useless of the 3 main views to obtain your rear look back more easily through the arrow keys.

Could Open Rails go to more than 3 cabviews without breaking compatibility?

[dedwa15237]

Question he was asking is "HOW TO SWITCH CABS TO REVERSE CAB IN OPEN RAILS?" the answer is Ctrl + E

Just did that... Does not work, ddd.JPG

[pwillard]

Camera views (in general) are still one of my pet peaves with ORTS. I have the same reaction with new Microsoft Windows releases when they decide to just move things around that didn't need to be changed.

"She's tidied up and I can't find anything - Thomas Dolby"

[crstagg]

Dave, I suggest you take a look at Richard Cowen's SW 1500 he did for the Canton RR. His #1 plus right arrow key view (in ORTS) is from engineer's seat looking out the rear windows. This was done using a MP15Back.ace rather than a XXXright.ace.

Also his ORTS Headout view via the Home key is out engineer's window and via the End key is out Conductor's window. Both can rotate to rear.

BTW his SW1500 was created for MSTS long before ORTS. BUT what I am reporting above is how the Views display in ORTS!

[slipperman]

Hi Dave,
The currently available version of the NS/CR SW1500 pack from EdsTrains does not have a rear-facing view in the cab, and I can find no way to get 4 views in MSTS!

I have modified the left view to give a rearward view, but without the surrounding bodywork (ie windows and door).

It should be possible to create a separate reverse cabview file (*_rv.cvf) which could then be implemented using <Ctrl+E> but, unfortunately, it's outside my current level of expertise! Of course, as this is Open Rails, a 3D cabview would be the answer!!

Cheers,
Ged