A driver in cab 1 goes into the first car of a unit and one in cab 2 into the
last - the ET42-A has only cab 1, the ET42-B only cab 2. The crew is the
unit's: the card, the details and replacing a vehicle all set it there,
rather than in whichever car happened to be selected.
The old starter looked a vehicle up by folder, skin and model. The folder was
left out here, and 39 skin names recur across folders - "red" is a Clio, an
Audi and a crane - so a vehicle could get another folder's livery.
The ET42-026 dresses both halves in 112E-026 and the scenery tells them apart
by the model. Textures were keyed by the skin alone, so the B half became a
second A: not part of the set, and listed on its own. A shared skin now gets
the model in its id, vehicles are looked up by skin and model, and the
vehicle cache is rebuilt for the new ids.
The simulator reads the last vehicle's coupler for one thing, whether to put
up the end signals. It does not couple the train to anything behind it, as
the tooltip and a comment claimed.
A disabled checkbox shows no tooltip, so the settings override that greys
out "ready to go" is now said under it. The consist vehicle count counted
units, so a multi-unit was one vehicle; it now counts cars like the stats bar.
The locomotive put first takes the driver, in cab A; the one it pushed
behind is left unstaffed. Stepping a card left or right is now an ordinary
move, so it also recouples the train and frees the coupler at its back.
The back of the consist goes to 0 after every change unless its coupler was
set in the editor; a car that gets a neighbour loses that mark, so it is
freed again once it is last again.
The simulator hangs end signals only on a last vehicle with coupler 0; every
new car came with 3 and the pass that couples neighbours never touched the
last one, nor did taking a car off the end. The coupler editor says so for
the last vehicle.
Joining took each card's cars in stored order and turned the lot by the
first card's flag, so a turned card came out reversed; splitting gave every
car the unit's flag. Both now go by the running order, and the coupler sides
by each car's own facing, which is what the export writes.
Randomising flipped only the card's flag, so a multi-car unit was exported
with its cars in reverse order but each still facing forward - coupled back
to front. A swap copied the flag without turning the new cars. Both now turn
flag, cars and order together, as Flip does, and a locked unit as one.
The crew was copied to the card but not to the new cars, which are what is
shown and exported, so a swapped locomotive came out unstaffed. Swapping now
moves the crew over and otherwise staffs the vehicle as adding would.
VehicleDatabase becomes VehicleCatalog, Physics becomes VehiclePhysics, and the
textures.txt and .fiz parsers move to Infrastructure. GameLibrary replaces the
GameData singleton.
