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Realistic Eurodual (Dual-Mode)
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Beschreibung
My first mod, so feedback is welcome.
The real Stadler Eurodual is a dual-mode loco: electric under the wire, diesel everywhere else. In the base game it's electric only. This mod gives it its diesel side back.
How it works in the game:
- It can run on any track, wired or not.
- A few seconds before the wire ends, the pantograph folds down. Once the loco is back under wire, it rises again. It's the Eurodual's own pantograph, now with a proper folding animation.
- On diesel you hear a diesel engine. When it switches over there is a start-up sound, and when it goes back under wire the diesel winds down.
- On diesel the two roof exhausts smoke, a bit heavier just after start-up.
- On diesel it pulls noticeably weaker and accelerates slower.
- At every changeover the train coasts for a few seconds, like a real driver would.
- Gaps in the wire shorter than 200 m count as neutral sections: the pantograph goes down, but the diesel stays off.
- The vehicle window shows whether it is running on electric or diesel.
Numbers:
- Under wire: 7000 kW, 160 km/h. Pollution and noise drop to electric-loco level, about the same as the BR 185: pollution 40 -> 25, noise 55 -> 40.
- On diesel: 2800 kW, 120 km/h. Pollution and noise stay at the game's original Eurodual values (40 and 55), which are diesel-level anyway. Passengers get slightly less comfort.
- Changeover: the pantograph takes 3 seconds to fold or rise. The train coasts from about 3 seconds before the switch to 3 seconds after.
Only the Eurodual is changed, and it works with existing saves. If you remove the mod, Eurodual trains on lines without wire will get stuck. Electrify those lines or swap the engines first.
I didn't find a way to change an engine's power while it is driving. For now the diesel's weaker pull is done by limiting how fast the train can speed up, so the vehicle window still shows 7000 kW. There's also no diesel train start-up sound in the game, so it's a bus engine start pitched way down.
HundertDampf made a similar mod, Stadler EuroDual - Dualmode, at the same time as me. I didn't copy it, we just had the same idea. Go check that one out too: https://mod.io/g/transportfever3/m/stadler-eurodual-dualmode
What's new in v2:
- New pantograph: the Eurodual's own pantograph now really folds down and rises again. In v1 it was just squashed flat onto the roof.
- The pantograph moves smoothly instead of in jumps.
- On diesel the loco now really pulls weaker (2800 kW). In v1 only the top speed was limited.
- Cleaned up the code and followed the official TF3 modding guidelines.
- New cover picture and a rewritten description.
All the code in this mod is now 100% human-written.
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