How do you make this Gee-Who work?????

[bootednancy]

Thanks Crabby541................the manual says NOTHING about Ctrl+Alt+F9......this whole deal with the "new version" may take fewer steps/windows than the old F9....they just added a more time consuming way and steps to get to the OLD F9 windows.....Progress. bah, Updates, bah, Smart Devices, bah.......Smartest thing in my house is ME, I don't need this technology crap to make decisions for me
Doug

[pschlik]

Thanks Crabby541................the manual says NOTHING about Ctrl+Alt+F9......

It...does though? https://open-rails.readthedocs.io/en...ations-monitor

[CSRX]

Here you go, a 20 minute long video, but will walk you through the very basics of using the F9 feature, that I feel blows the older version out of the water with simplicity, and the more true to life feeling when it bounces you to the very car you are working with.

[bootednancy]

Thank you Shawn for the video explaining this.....looks like it will be a good help. The manual is far from clear as you have been on any of this.
Appears you select the car you want in the full consist box, then do the car functions with the single screen at the top???
Doug

[derekmorton]

When you have a real train in front of you, you go to a car and release the handbrake, connect a hose, turn the tap on the last cay so the engine can pump it up.

Sounds normal to me.

[CSRX]

Thank you Shawn for the video explaining this.....looks like it will be a good help. The manual is far from clear as you have been on any of this.
Appears you select the car you want in the full consist box, then do the car functions with the single screen at the top???
Doug

Not a problem Doug, sorry it took longer than it should for me to get this video out. Last weekend I was sick, and working Tuesday to Friday with Fridays being the only days I may have an early end, it's hard to settle.

Yes, that is correct. The car you want to work with you click on and it brings that box up with the features you can play with. As you can tell in the video, I wasn't truly positive of what a feature was, until I went ahead and tried it out.

Hopefully the video helps out and many others. I would like to do more of these videos, but most of the time the ORTS manual seems to be good enough.

[Erick_Cantu]

My only major complaint about the new system is it shifts the view to the car, which makes North American style switching operations like kicking cars unnecessarily difficult, especially if you're trying to do operations from a fixed camera on the ground. I think the Euro bias of the dev team is showing a tad. The interface is otherwise fine to my tastes.

[dcarleton]

Totally agree with Erick on this one. The F9 function itself is fine, but is it really necessary for the view jump?