A track laid on from a free end in the PKP PLK laying, by a drag out of the end, by clicks from it or laid back onto it, starts from the curvature and the cant the end has. An arc turning the same way as the end is a compound curve: a transition of the norms ramps the curvature and the cant from the one arc into the other. From a straight the arc gets its entry transition, the arc then straight its exit one. Where the way is too short the transitions are cut and the cant lowered to what they ramp, and the readout says so; with no room at all the track is laid as before and the note says why. The curves traced on the orthophoto and the recommended values of a compound curve get the transitions between their arcs too. The free laying stays as it was.
Each end of a rail track joined to nothing, where a train would run off, gets a red dot next to the white dots of the joints,
in the 3D view near the camera and from above over the whole view. The ends are looked for again after an edit or once the
camera leaves the place they were found for, not every frame.
Next to the length and the radius, the readout at the cursor shows the difference of height from the start to the end of the
track about to be laid, the grade along it (one value or the range it goes over) and the speed the sharpest arc lets the
trains through at within the cant and the unbalanced acceleration of the laying limits. The self-test layclicks logs it.
Besides the steps of 15 degrees, Alt snaps the laid straight to the
ratios of the switches (1:4.8 to 1:26.5) of the straight track the
straight crosses, or of one within 30 m of where it starts; the label at
the cursor says which ratio to which track. The first click with Alt
within 2 m of a straight track puts the start on its axis, so a branch
or a crossing at 1:9 starts exactly on the track.
A slip went to the crossing of the selected straight with another straight within 40 m of the click. When the track under the cursor wasn't taken as a straight (a slight curve, a switch), the slip silently went to another crossing up to 40 m away. A double slip within 25 m of the click was replaced, even when the click was on a free crossing.
- The crossing nearest the cursor, within 12 m, is found among all the rail tracks. A slip goes only there; when that track is a curve or a switch, the tool says so.
- A double slip is replaced only when it is nearer the cursor than any crossing.
- The cursor is taken at the height of the straight under it, so on a grade the 3D view doesn't put the click metres away from the track.
- Before the click, the view marks the crossing the slip goes to, with its two straights, or the reason it can't go there.
Labels:
- every button, field, tooltip and message of the editor reread for a beginner: short nouns for the fields with the
sentence in the tooltip, the less used options under More settings, one glossary (field of work, template, track,
grade), sides told from directions, degrees and per mille as signs, messages built from one format string
- plural forms through STR_P; the last entry of a po file is read too, and the Polish plural rule is in the header
- lang/editor_pl.po: the code pass entries merged, 391 entries no code uses and 3 duplicates dropped
- roads: the notes and errors naming a road translated; the build options and the layout fold the texture length,
kerb sizes, traffic share, roundabout part, height over the ground and junction speed limit under More settings, the
lanes start folded
Grade lines fitted to the terrain model (NMT), a line or the whole scenery at once:
- fit_ground: a robust fit on nodes 5 m apart; the ground parting from the line (a bridge, a viaduct, a wall) is gone
past rather than followed, the bends keep off the switches as far as their curves reach, a run of bends the same way
is one point of intersection, a curve with no room is as sharp as the room lets it be
- the ends of the line and the other paths of its switches leading into lines fitted already bound the line by what
the tracks between can climb; ends meeting in the plan, laid apart in height by hand, are joined before the run
- apply_profile: the paths are split where split_path takes the parameter (a straight was cut in the wrong place, into
pieces of a few centimetres the game takes for zero length), no piece shorter than the margin; the paths off the
ends of the route are brought to its height
- Bytom: 1600 lines, grade breaks at the joints 89 -> 20; Tarnowskie Gory: 848 lines, 223 -> 3; no step over 2 cm
- editormoderoute.cpp: the route design, its kept records and digitizing
- editormodestraights.cpp: the plan tool: straights, the detour, the curve fit
- editormodelay.cpp: laying track, free ends and extending, the build tools
- editormodeswitchplace.cpp: placing switches, crossovers and links, double slips, curved switches
- editormodetrack.cpp keeps the selection, the snapshots, the tabs, the inspector and the path panel, the hints
- the sizes of the handles and reaches and the small helpers they all use in editormodetrackshared.h
The code is moved as it was.
