M in any tab of the track mode turns the tape on: a click puts its start, the next one its end, at a free end, on the axis
of the track under the cursor or else on the ground. The readout at the cursor gives the distance in plan and in space,
the difference of height and the grade between them and the azimuth, while the second point follows the cursor and once
it's put; a further click starts a new measure, M or Esc puts the tape away. Self-test command tape.
View > Track colours draws the rail tracks over the view in bands of the radius of their paths, of their speed or of the grade
along them, from above over the whole view and in the 3D view within 1.5 km of the camera, with the legend of the bands in
the bottom right corner. Plain keeps the lines of the top view as they were. Self-test command trackcolours.
The points of a grade line read from the tracks keep the radius measured there; once a point between them was taken out, the
breaks of its neighbours changed while their radii stayed, so a break without a curve read as 0.4 per mille became one of
9 per mille with no curve, and the tracks took it as a kink. The neighbours of the point taken out follow the limits now,
with the button, Del and the self-test alike (profile_remove_point).
Applying a line with a break without a curve gave the path which ends at the break the grade of the element after it, so
its Hermite heights bowed 0.12 m off the line over 100 m before the break; each path takes the grade on its own side now.
Self-test commands vprofilerun, vprofiledel and vprofileput.
The seventh tool out of editor_mode. It reads the selected set of tracks
and the tab shown through the services, digitizes the tracks it lays and
refreshes the plan after it sets one parallel to another. The panel shown
for two selected tracks is a public call of the tool, and the self-test
command parallel moves with it and lays the same tracks as before.
The fifth and the sixth tool out of editor_mode, the two lineside ones
sharing their file. Placing, moving and taking out the templates which
stand by the track become services of the editor, with the template
types of their own, and so do the tab of the track tools shown, the
ground under a point and the first step done. The context menu, the
click on a fouling point in the view and the lineside tabs go through
the public calls of the tools. The self-test commands hekto and fouling
move with them and log the same as before.
The fourth tool out of editor_mode. The track under the cursor and the
first steps of the tutorial become types of their own, which the editor
gives to the tools, and a tool shown as a tab of the lineside panel keeps
its open and expanded flags in a tool_tab. The trainsets waiting for the
save are handed to the editor by the tool, which hears back when they
were written. The self-test command trainset moves with it.
- The plot draws the ground of the terrain model (NMT) as measured, before any earthworks. The squares under the route are fetched in the background. The tooltip gives the grade line's distance from the model.
- Applying a profile lays the formation of the changed tracks anew, or reshapes the route's earthworks when there are any, so the heightmap terrain follows the new grade line. The terrain step is joined to the track step: one undo takes both back.
- In 3D and in the top view, the camera shows the part of the route the plot shows once the plot stops moving. It keeps clear of the floating plot window. A toggle turns this off.
- nmt_shape_tracks can shape only the given tracks, removing the modifiers of their paths that are gone.
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
editormodeselftest.cpp keeps the dispatch, the list of the commands and the step; the groups go to
editormodeselftest{scene,sleepers,sweep,track,switch,join,signal,terrain,rails}.cpp, the sleeper commands (beams,
sharedzones, sleepersbg, beamsnear, sleepercheck) in a group of their own; the frame count and one_line shared through
editormodeselftest.h. The output of geomhash, sleepercheck, wings, space, guards, crossings and switches is the same on the
seven sceneries of the regression.
