More Train compatible portals

[frank imp]

I'm sure there's a good reason why there's not more nether portal style train interaction, but I'm not aware of the reason. I get that you'd need to actually tell the train tracks what the big idea about putting obsidian in front of the train is about so they can put the train through the portal, but why doesn't that work for other types of portals? Most of them work by simply teleporting entities I understand, which would derail the train, but surely it's not that hard to copy the nether portal code and remix it for a different portal? Even Create:Teleporters to my knowledge eschews track continuity. But whenever I ask about it people clam up or say it wouldn't ever be worth it, which I can respect since I'm ignorant, but without solving that ignorance I'm left just imagining how cool it would be to access more dimensions via trains and have funkier nonlinear train lines.

Imagine: the sharpest possible 90° turn in a train is 9 blocks by 9 blocks, practically a decameter or more, plus the train loses speed as it turns. Portals however can be placed wherever you want and thus can be placed at 90° in a comparably microscopic amount of space, and the train wouldn't ever have to actually turn! Currently the train must enter the nether, which requires a lot of security and terraformation and building to not look extremely out of place, and still might struggle to avoid the required turn if portal placement doesn't cooperate. The nether's 1:8 block ratio is at times useful for shortening train routes, but usually that will be an additional obstacle that makes the nether less appealing, not more.

[analog shell]

It doesn't work because trains through nether portals are hardcoded to work with nether portals

[frank imp]

Yes, I suppose I might not be speaking clearly, I'm more verbose than I'd like to be in the mornings, literally just forget the simpler and clearer language in the moment lol, hope it wasn't rude

I'm wondering if it's not possible to hardcode in other portals too. Like, is there no opening? Are the options available for messing with the trains too restrictive to add anything like that? I'm usually just told they hardcoded it which is great but I'm not computer literate enough to understand why that's a barrier but am literate enough to wonder why it is

[analog shell]

It's certainly possible, it's just that no one has done it

[frank imp]

Thank you! I figured the biggest trainline mods team could explain it better; more work than it's worth I assume, all I wanted to know

[analog shell]

Not necessarily, we just have a ton of features on our list

This is all the stuff we have planned for the next update, with green being complete and blue being in progress

All of that has to be done before we even consider looking at more far off things like the portals you suggested

[rigid bloom]

aether portal travel.

[worn karma]

is there a trello page for this mod?

[analog shell]

Yes

That screenshot is from it

[worn karma]

but like, is there a public link
like, so we can see the whole thing

[hybrid swift]

Yes

#announcements check the topic of that channel

It's there