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Hi. I'm working on building a camel back locomotive. Since the camelbacks had a strange cab set up, I wondered a few things. One: Would it be possible to build a cabview that has only the fireman guages and controls, but no reverser, throttle, or brake?Two: Would it be possible to build said cab so that when the player pressed up or down, they got a headout view of the engineer's cab? (up on the boiler)Three: Would it further be possible to have a passenger view set in the engineer cab (offset slightly to simulate headout)Four: Would it be possible to animate TWO firebox doors? (prototypically) and if so, how hard?
What I'm wondering is if gauges and controls can be displayed in the "left" and "right" views of a cab. If they can, couldn't you just subsitute either the left or right view with the "other" cab?I ask this, because I'd like to do an NW-2 cab this way- there is a second set of air gauges mounted on the rear of the cab for when the engineer is facing backwards. I was thinking of making a right view that was really looking backwards through the large windows. I know that much could be done, but whether or not I could put functioning brake gauges in that view is my concern.- dispatcher618
>One: Would it be possible to build a cabview that has only >the fireman guages and controls, but no reverser, throttle, >or brake? Absolutely. You can add all the controls you want to a cab or no controls and still have the locomotive run.>Two: Would it be possible to build said cab so that when the >player pressed up or down, they got a headout view of the >engineer's cab? (up on the boiler) Certainly. You would just need to play around with the headout values in the .eng file.>Three: Would it further be possible to have a passenger view >set in the engineer cab (offset slightly to simulate >headout) Possibly. But I don't think you are allowed to have passenger views in steam engines. But you can try.>Four: Would it be possible to animate TWO firebox doors? >(prototypically) and if so, how hard? I don't think this would work. I think it would be possible to add two firebox doors, but the thing is they would open and close the same amount and would act as one. Mike Karlik www.trainsimstation.com
I'm thinking, I might just do a cabview with one firebox that works, but offset. The texture would show two, but I'd just fudge it and say both are opening
In some ways your problem isn't really as special as you might think. Many of the small narrow gauge locos (C-16, C-21, C-25 for example) have cabs in which the engineer sits next to the boiler and the firebox is outside the cab back on the deck plate. In most of the narrow gauge locos, the engineer's controls are on top of the boiler on his left side. He would clearly see the pressure gage and the speedometer, but not the water glasses. I think you would be appreciated if you could make two related cabs while you are doing this project: one strictly for camelbacks with the front view higher up and a second one with the view much lower for narrow gauge locos. The narrow gauge locos all had their firebox door in the center, by the way. So if you can figure out how to handle the backhead view and the engineer's view, you will address a need of the narrow gauge crowd as well. Question: can the head's out view not actuall show part of the inside of the cab and part of the outside, so the control levers would be visible. Save the lefthand view for the boiler and the controls and the straight-on view for the fireman's view.
