[Question] should BVEC ATS and its example get into openbve documentation page ?

[adfriz]

Hello

When i play shinkansen E5 addon by ginga81 i curious about that coupler cover that can we toggle open/close using number 5, so i search the function it use, turn out it using pluginstates[62] but when i search in openbve documentation page for pluginstates index only had number 256-271.

Then i realize it use custom plugin (BVEC ATS) by bve cornwall, so i go to bve cornwall and found many usefull function attribute, but the one i found very usefull for me is customindicatorkey attribute that can override the default Ats security to run our custom function and assigned to a keyboard key we want.

So i suggest to add its documentation and example to openbve documentation page.

[ginga81]

It already has been documented at here. http://www.bvecornwall.co.uk/wordpress/bvec_ats-configuration/ Please search this word 'customindicator' at this page. And please read my settings. BVEC_ATS.cfg's [Interlocks] section is maybe maximum ATS value is unlimited. But when I created at Series-E5 and E6, the OpenBVE version was maybe 1.4.3. So, it wasn't unlimited. Currently, I think maybe the BVEC_ATS is unlimited.

[leezer3]

In theory, the customindicators should be unlimited. In practice, IIRC it'll top out at the number of available security keys (e.g. 17)

I don't especially want to add the plugin itself to the main download, as internally it's somewhat confused, and the plugin interface itself isn't really a good place to handle much of what it does.

The eventual aim is to implement many of the features from the plugin into the sim itself. This has been done with the windscreen / wipers, but not too much else yet......

[adfriz]

Ginga81 I've read it but in your BVEC ATS.cfg at Interlocks section you write

Customindicator= 62,70,64,63

but in that website at interlocks section i cant find customindicator attribute, it only appear in key assigment section its a bit confusing for me 😅.

Leezer3 You right. I hope the customindicator and customindicatorkey get implemented soon because i see this attribute can make this game more interactive to play.

My goal is to use this attribute to make interesting feature like:

Swapable trains livery without quiting the game to choose different train, although it technically just swap between different csv/b3d file.