Single car trains

[hamsterTK 93]

For my largest city, I am putting in a tiny monorail system like the miami metromover. So i need to have 1 car trains.
I already made the skins and put them on a monorail i found on a japanese site. Here is a picture of what i made:



Anyways, i'd like to know what you change to make only the front show up and not have cars.

Edit: does anyone notice something strange about this picture? Here's a hint. look across the street at the lady.

[vester_DK 477]

Wel have a look at my trams, they only have the engine and no cars. This is a screenshot from the iLive Reader:


Another approach is done by NOB in his GLR Assortment for NAM

[hamsterTK 93]

problem: mine doesnt have a exemplar file. What should i do?

EDIT:

I also did this thing too, it uses the same model as the last one. I dont want to put this one on the STEX because i dont know if i have to email the guy who made the model(APTX), since i dont know if i can use it for my own stuff and release it.

[GoaSkin 2]

Single-car trains can only be based on buildings. Like police cars appear at police stations and go somewhere.

Beside a suitable Exemplar, you need a LUA-script for creating a new occupant group and describing the vehicle behavior. The BSC-SFBT tram MOD is a good example. You need to set the right LayerFilter value in the Exemplar for monorail and to change follow_lightrail by follow_monorail in the script.

[hamsterTK 93]

GoaSkin: Ugh... I may not mess with it now then.

Thanks for you help though.

[vester_DK 477]

Just had a look at NOB's tramset. He made the disappear cars by adding a alpha to the cars, which is just black.

[pnorrell 4]

Date: 11/28/2005 8:18:33 AM Author: vester_DK Just had a look at NOB's tramset. He made the disappear cars by adding a alpha to the cars, which is just black.

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Exactly.

 

Single-car trains do not have to be based on buildings. That is one way to do it and has been realized in the SFBT tram set and in GoaSkin's mod of the NOB dentei station.

 

Another way is to mask the passenger cars with a blank, as NOB did for his tram set, or as was done in the w class tram that vester_DK released, or the original tram vehicle mod that was first done for the GLR way back before it was made an integral part of the NAM.

 

How to create the blank for the passenger car is another matter and someone else will have to help you there, but that it can be done has been proven.

[GoaSkin 2]

The way we used on our tram set makes it possible to add single-car trains while masking the passenger cars overrides the default passenger trains.

There is a third way - much easier and only possible for heavy rail: Creating new track-checkers (the small green things by default). Just clone the track-checker exemplar, change name and model ID and at last the instance ID of the exemplar itself.

[hamsterTK 93]

alright. Im gonna check all this out now. I like the black alpha idea. But i guess i oughta go deeper and use a different one so i wont mess up my heavy rail.