[Mod] Advanced Trains [advtrains] [2.4.3]

[orwell]

I think would be good to add new trains, for example: fast passenger train, freight wagon with some coal, empty freight wagon, carts, electric train and generator of rails and trains

The japanese train drives 20 meters/second, minetest can hardly handle this, no more speed. Mine railway is planned. (maybe even on default rails?!). There are some freight wagons ( see industrial/box wgn.)

On the other side, my trains hypothetically can drive faster than 100 m/s (means it works) but stopping such a train because of

minetest's buggy object management system

is not fun.

[orwell]

Update 1.3.0
The train controls now work different. See the readme.txt for info how they work.
If you dislike the new controls, tell me here. EDIT: I like them.
Also fixes various bugs. EDIT: and you get off on the platform if there is a platform

[Desour]

nice
but hud doesnt get removed if pressed shift + e

[orwell]

Known bug. I have no idea why.
EDIT: Ah, now when I think about it...
EDIT2: Fixed.

[Desour]

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[hajo]

In the minetest's main-menu/mods-tab, mods without a description.txt
show up with "No mod description available".

How about adding a description.txt, with contents like this:

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Advanced Trains v1.3.0, by orwell.
Good-looking, realistic trains for minetest.

For crafting recipes, see manual.pdf

Website: http://advtrains.bleipb.de/
Manual:  https://github.com/orwell96/advtrains/blob/master/manual.pdf
Forum :  https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14726

Also, a screenshot.png that looks good at size 300x200.

[orwell]

Done. And the manual got fixed and updated!

[hajo]

Done. And the manual got fixed and updated!

Nice, thanks!

Currently, I'm having a look at mg_villages, worldedit, handle-schematics, etc.
The mod mg_villages can create villages of several types all over the map,
and that would give 'natural' points to connect with a rail-network.

So I was wondering if this has already been done ("TrainsWorld" ?),
but that would need at least some railroad-related buildings,
like station, freight-terminal, train-depot, water-tower,
repair-workshop, street/railroad-crossings, etc.

I can imagine the mexican steamtrain and most 'medieval' villages
would look good together as-is.
But a 'real' wild-west-themed set of villages would need some more
buildings like saloon, bank, staples, stores, sheriff's office/jail etc.

[hiperpobla]

When the train accelerates to over the 3rd-speed I die quickly.
It is a problem of use? It's a bug?

Thanks,

[casio33]

Hi Orwell,
I like your Mod very much but I have a problem: I can't go off the train. I placed some tracks and the steam engine and got on the train by right-clicking it. Now I can't go off. Yesterday I somehow managed to leave the train but still the velocity bar was shown and wasd moved the train. What am I doing wrong?

[orwell]

Known bug. Use sneak+use, this works! I don't know what's going wrong there, but it seems to work with the left driving stand.

[orwell]

When the train accelerates to over the 3rd-speed I die quickly.
It is a problem of use? It's a bug?

Thanks,

Looks like lag. Minetest can't keep up with moving the player and the player happens to be overrun by the wagon immediately following the one you are sitting on.
EDIT: does not work.
You can disable damage by opening init.lua and change the line

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dofile(advtrains.modpath.."/damage.lua")

to

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--dofile(advtrains.modpath.."/damage.lua")

Will fix.
(I don't recognize such bugs since I play without damage most time, all my trains worlds are creative mode)

[hiperpobla]

Hi Orwell,
I like your Mod very much but I have a problem: I can't go off the train. I placed some tracks and the steam engine and got on the train by right-clicking it. Now I can't go off. Yesterday I somehow managed to leave the train but still the velocity bar was shown and wasd moved the train. What am I doing wrong?

Use Ctrl + E to exit the train. It works for me.

[orwell]

That bug has been fixed now. Download again.

[hiperpobla]

When the train accelerates to over the 3rd-speed I die quickly.
It is a problem of use? It's a bug?

Thanks,

Looks like lag. Minetest can't keep up with moving the player and the player happens to be overrun by the wagon immediately following the one you are sitting on.
You can disable damage by opening init.lua and change the line

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dofile(advtrains.modpath.."/damage.lua")

to

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--dofile(advtrains.modpath.."/damage.lua")

Will fix.
(I don't recognize such bugs since I play without damage most time, all my trains worlds are creative mode)

Error:

2016-12-04 23:22:53: WARNING[Server]: Undeclared global variable "staticdata_table" accessed at /usr/share/games/minetest/mods/advtrains/wagons.lua:76
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: Runtime error from mod 'advtrains' in callback environment_Step(): /usr/share/games/minetest/mods/advtrains/wagons.lua:419: attempt to ind
ex field 'player_to_wagon_mapping' (a nil value)
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/games/minetest/mods/advtrains/wagons.lua:419: in function 'get_on'
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/games/minetest/mods/advtrains/wagons.lua:510: in function 'reattach_all'
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/games/minetest/mods/advtrains/wagons.lua:126: in function 'func'
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/games/minetest/builtin/game/misc.lua:34: in function </usr/share/games/minetest/builtin/game/misc.lua:11>
2016-12-04 23:22:53: ERROR[Main]: /usr/share/games/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:369: in function </usr/share/games/minetest/builtin/game/register.lua:349>

[Christian9]

Industrial thinks you are still in it after leaving it if you choose right.


EDIT:Did not see casio's post

[orwell]

Industrial thinks you are still in it after leaving it if you choose right.
EDIT:Did not see casio's post

This has been fixed.
Can someone please try if the damage problem still appears with the latest version? I can't reproduce it.

[casio33]

That bug has been fixed now. Download again.

Thanks, it's working now.

[hiperpobla]

Can someone please try if the damage problem still appears with the latest version? I can't reproduce it.

The damage problem is solved. Works perfect!!!!! Thanks.

[Desour]

that didnt write Christian9

[casio33]

Now there's the next problem: I can't couple waggons - there is no green entity :( And the train is driving into the waggon, it doesn't stop in front of it.

[orwell]

Now there's the next problem: I can't couple waggons - there is no green entity :(

Industrial train? Yes, under some circumstances it does not couple. Workaround: pull wagons around with the japanese train engine.

And the train is driving into the waggon, it doesn't stop in front of it.

The collision of trains is not fun to code. The current collision implementation is already the third one written from scratch. The behavior you mentioned should not happen, but when 2 wagons stood at the same place a single time there are bugs.
EDIT: sometimes it works again when you wait about 1 minute, every minute everything cleans up and repairs itself if sth's broken.

[Andrey01]

Orwell, i found not any "green icon" in my inventory and that`s why i don`t understand how to use all trains.First two wagons connect between themselves and next wagons don`t connect

[orwell]

No, not in inventory, it appears between the two wagons you want to couple. If it's not there, try to move the engine around (a bit forward and then backward until it stops itself because of collision). This may not work with the industrial engine, but however you can couple the japanese engine to it.
Also keep in mind that ATM you can't couple any steam-related wagons/engines to electric or subway trains and the other way round, and subways do not couple to electric trains. I will remove this limitation in a future version, now it is needed for the maximum speed a train can drive.
train types:
steam: steam engine, box wagon, passenger wagon (max 10m/s)
subway: subway (max 15 m/s)
electric: japanese and industrial wagons/engines. (max 20 m/s)
No wagon couples when placed, it may look like this but is not. Better place wagons with >2 nodes space between them and then use an engine to connect them all. It's not that difficult.

[ShadMOrdre]

orwell,

great mod! can't stop making tracks. my five year old, who has Thomas and BRIO, LOVES them.

was thinking, this could easily be modified to create roads for cars.

regarding the issue with getting off a train: when getting on the train, press [enter] at the formspec window that pops up. You can then right-click exit the train. If you press [esc], or any other method of exiting that formspec window, you cannot exit the train, and will have to use "sneak"+e.

hope that helps

Shad MOrdre