Lighting on Driverless locomotives

[mrennie]

Here's the regulation from the days of steam (it's quoted in the manual for the Consolidation):

"Required illumination.
(a) General provisions. Each steam locomotive used between sunset and sunrise shall be equipped with an operable
headlight that provides illumination sufficient for a steam locomotive engineer in the cab to see, in a clear atmosphere,
a dark object as large as a man of average size standing at least 800 feet ahead and in front of such headlight. If a steam
locomotive is regularly required to run backward for any portion of its trip other than to pick up a detached portion of its
train or to make terminal movements, it shall also be equipped on its rear end with an operable headlight that is capable
of providing the illumination described in this paragraph (a).
(b) Dimming device. Such headlights shall be provided with a device whereby the light from same may be diminished in
yards and at stations or when meeting trains."

[pschlik]

Oh... I just noticed something very annoying light related that hasn't been fixed on the ES44DC lights (but on nothing else's lights (I meant nothing!)

Really....jpg

Any fix? Or would the file not be editable, stinks that you just can't edit stuff anymore without it sayings it's not a serialized binary file, dang RSC going all strict.

Also, I think this is the "cast shadow" variable; I'd have no idea why it isn't set to 1 for everything, but that is what causes the light to go straight through stuff.

Another edit, I think I've fixed this, the file actually allowed me to edit it and re-save... Wow...

Light Fix.jpg

Now that I think about it, for the no crew versions of the locomotives, I could just un-alias all the lights except the main beams, that would work fine.

[pschlik]

This is probably the most makeshift fix for this, but it works, yards won't be laggy anymore with this.

ES44DC Fix.jpg

SD40-2 Fix.jpg

SW1500 Fix.jpg