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fireglow wrote:Klugscheiss:
It's bad practice to have the advtrains.zip in the git repo.
GitHub makes it easy for you, users can always download the current repo (master branch) using https://github.com/orwell96/advtrains/a ... master.zip

DS-minetest wrote:Suggestion (perhaps bad): Make an advtrains organization (like the minetest organization). Then the user doesn't have to download also every source file. Then just make the asserts thing an extra repository.

mbb wrote:just a small question: when will the next realice be?

orwell wrote:
This mod adds good-looking, realistic trains to minetest. It introduces rails that make turns of only 30 degrees instead of 90. The trains can be highly automated.

Until now are supported:
- tracks and switches, based on angles of 30(!) degrees
- wagons that drive on these rails and collide with nodes in the environment(they need 3x3x3 space)
-> a steam engine (with smoke(using latest dev)!)
-> a regular green wagon
-> a box wagon
-> a subway train
-> engine and wagon for a passenger train (the 'japanese train')
- coupling /discoupling of wagons/trains
- trains can travel through unloaded map chunks (but I don't recommend you to do so unless you have them automated with ATC, watch the movie 'unstoppable', it is really hard to stop a fast moving train, even with fly/fast)
- head-up display for train speed and nice controls when sitting in locomotive
- signals and bumpers
- switches and signals controllable by mesecons
- wagons have an owner, only this owner can destroy or discouple wagons.
- Automatic train control (ATC) (currently only static commands, but these are powerful enough)
- Automation with LUA code
- API to add custom wagons
- doors on subway train that can be opened
- Amazing railway automation features. For examples search this topic for videos.

Manual:
https://github.com/orwell96/advtrains/b ... manual.pdf
- Use the 'track' item to place tracks. In most cases it will adjust rails in the direction you need them.
- use the trackworker tool (doctor who sonic screwdriver) to rotate tracks(right-click) and to change normal rails into switches(left-click)
- to overcome heights you need the ramped rails, place them and you will understand.
- right-click switches to change direction
- place locomotives or wagons by picking the item and placing it on a track.
- right-click a wagon or locomotive to sit onto it.
- drive two trains together and they will connect by right-clicking that green icon that appears.
- punch the red couple icon between wagons to discouple them
For the syntax of ATC commands see atc_commands.txt

Have fun!

+ Screenshots

Video: https://youtu.be/e1ZrCUz5Vd4
Dependencies: default

Download latest: https://github.com/orwell96/advtrains/r ... trains.zip
(this contains only the files needed to run the mod)
The latest version may contain bugs and should not be used on servers until it has been tested.
Unpack the archive directly into the "mods" directory.
This has changed!

Github: https://github.com/orwell96/advtrains/
License of code: LGPL 2.1
License of media: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Suggested configuration (minetest.conf):

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active_block_range = 5
active_object_send_range_blocks = 5


With lower values, trains appear out of nothing when they approach.
(I got scared many times when trains suddenly stood in the station on my automated subway map without these settings)

Also check out mbb's trains. Just download, add into the modpack and enable them
https://mbblp.github.io/advanced-trains ... index.html

ABJ wrote:Maglev! :)

orwell wrote:I will not include more trains in the modpack, but keep this handled like mobs redo instead: a core mod plus some basic trains included, and then individual extension packs that users can download, such as mbb's trainhub or your trains.
When I do the next release, I will clarify this in the forum post. Meanwhile, you and mbb, please post your trains (and only your trains, including neither the 'advtrains' core nor any of the trains already included in the advtrains core pack) as modpacks on the WIP mods forum and get them moved into Mod Releases, I will redirect users there in many ways.
The advantage is that you can do changes and additions independent from me.
I can't upload the map in the video for reasons I don't want to explain. I might create another demo map.

fireglow wrote:We've encountered a crash when a player without the atcatl priv open and then closes the advtrains_luaautiomation:dtrack_st window.
According to the users, the crash happens on them closing the window with ESC.

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2017-03-26 00:24:02: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: ServerThread::run Lua: Runtime error from mod '' in callback node_on_receive_fields(): ...advtrains/advtrains/advtrains_luaautomation/atc_rail.lua:89: attempt to index a nil value
2017-03-26 00:24:02: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2017-03-26 00:24:02: ERROR[Main]:       ...advtrains/advtrains/advtrains_luaautomation/atc_rail.lua:89: in function  ...advtrains/advtrains/advtrains_luaautomation/atc_rail.lua:83>