Train gangways as actual item.

[safe nimbus]

Basically every passenger train has gangways.
In my opinion, they're one of the most important parts of a passenger train, and it would make sense to have them as a part of the mod.
The current method for adding gangways to a train feels kinda broken, it would be nice to be able to just place down a gangway.

• Cuboid. :3

[tough lake]

I actually worked on this a while back, but struggled to get rendering to work satisfactorily (and I didn't even get to collisions which will be hell). I might take another look at this sometime, but it's not high on my todo-list

[safe nimbus]

Okay, cool!
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

[timber aurora]

you mean this?

i can give you this one

forge 1.20.1

wirte pv

[safe nimbus]

Yeah, that's what I meant by gangways.
I was suggesting adding them to Create: Steam 'n' Rails.
I get that there's a way to make them in Create Mod, but it feels a bit broken.
And it'd be nice to just have them as an item in Steam 'n' Rails.
They're one of most important components of a passenger train.
And they are, in my opinion, deserving of a proper implementation in Steam 'n' Rails.

Thank you for responding, JEsus.

[timber aurora]

I was suggesting this too

it's not working but it's looking nice

@safe nimbus

[safe nimbus]

Yeah, I apologize, I misunderstood your response.
I got confused, I thought you were making those in the base game, sorry.
The screenshots you send look great.
That's exactly what I was talking about.

[misty hull]

Would it be possible to code a special type of block that can change, based on the angle between its carriage and the carriage in front?

That way, you can make full-block and half-block gangways. For half-block gangways, you assemble each carriage separately and then couple them after. But that forces you to have forward-facing train controls for each carriage.

[misty hull]

I think you can then use the wrench to change the length or width of the gangway.

[last harness]

I could see this working similarly to how the portable storage interface extends beyond the boundaries of the block it was placed in. That way you could have separately glued cars that still visually intersect.

[lofty mist]

That is not necessairly true
It is possible (tough anoying) to get carriages without controlls and to couple those to an engine with controls.
Essentially, one needs zo build a 'throwaway engine' with controlls and then decouple it. The carriage without controlls will be positioned right where it needs to be for coupling.

[austere solar]

i just make the gangway on an invisible bogie and mess around with the glue until it doesnt stick to everything else

[misty hull]

okay that sounds fair

how you can do that is making it on an invisible bogie, as part of a train with carriages a few blocks too far from each other - then you can use coupler blocks to decouple the carriages and gangways, to then recouple them closer together.

[nimble socket]

but still if a train is on an angle then the articulation doesn't work since the inside of the train is visible.

[nimble socket]

the placement method seems weird, since there would be no way to make bigger sizes of it.

[safe nimbus]

im not too sure bigger sizes of gangsways are needed (if you're talking about the length of the gangway)

im actually not too sure what you meant about the sizes of the gangways, could you please elaborate?

[nimble socket]

like you~JeSUs is portraying a 2x1 size

so a human sized one

while in many of my trains, a 3x3 is used

i can show it to you in a sec

[safe nimbus]

ah, i see, thanks for explaining

[nimble socket]

like this

3 blocks by 3 blocks

[safe nimbus]

ya i get that

idk know the best way to handle placement for stuff like this

[nimble socket]

maybe simmilar to glue block?

you "glue" the gangway and then it appears

[safe nimbus]

that seems like an intuitive way to place gangways

[nimble socket]

ye

so there would be a gangway glue or articulator glue depending on the language