Hey everyone,
As many of you know I have been working on some passenger cars for the Milwaukee Road 261. I was curious what all I could animate on the passenger cars? Obviously I do know about the doors but my issue with that is the fact that ALL of the doors open at the same time. Being in America that is NOT how it works here even when it comes to Amtrak.
We will usually open one door or trap per accommodation. So for the 261 passenger cars we usually open one door for Coach class, one door for Dome and First Class and one more door for the Cedar Rapids and Private party cars. Many of our trains are 10 to 14 cars long and it does not make since to open every single door on ALL of the passenger cars for loading and unloading. Amtrak does this same thing and only opens a door or two on there passenger trains per stop depending on who all is boarding or de boarding.
It would be nice if the Open Rails team could make it so you click on a door and it opens or you push the F9 and click on a car you want to have the doors open or close and it functions that way.
Another question I had was about air breaks and if those could now be animated? One more thing that I would like to see animated eventually are shades in the passenger cars.
Just a few thoughts I had and thought I would run them by everyone.
Brandon
As many of you know I have been working on some passenger cars for the Milwaukee Road 261. I was curious what all I could animate on the passenger cars? Obviously I do know about the doors but my issue with that is the fact that ALL of the doors open at the same time. Being in America that is NOT how it works here even when it comes to Amtrak.
We will usually open one door or trap per accommodation. So for the 261 passenger cars we usually open one door for Coach class, one door for Dome and First Class and one more door for the Cedar Rapids and Private party cars. Many of our trains are 10 to 14 cars long and it does not make since to open every single door on ALL of the passenger cars for loading and unloading. Amtrak does this same thing and only opens a door or two on there passenger trains per stop depending on who all is boarding or de boarding.
It would be nice if the Open Rails team could make it so you click on a door and it opens or you push the F9 and click on a car you want to have the doors open or close and it functions that way.
Another question I had was about air breaks and if those could now be animated? One more thing that I would like to see animated eventually are shades in the passenger cars.
Just a few thoughts I had and thought I would run them by everyone.
Brandon
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