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Drive with a citycar through the simutrans world

Yes I know, Simutrans is a transport simulation. Nevertheless, I whould write down my idea.

I think it would be nice to drive with a citycar through the simutrans-world.

That must not be very different to the citycarsystem now. I should only be a citycar which I can control.
This car should only do 4 things.

1. Drive, if I say drive.
2. Stop when I stop
3. Make a left turn at next junction
4. Make a right turn at next junction

It should only drive at the a street. On a end of a street it should be turn around like a citycar.

I've heard it's a lot of work to make a interface for it. How many work is it?

What do you think about?

Re: Drive with a citycar through the simutrans world

Reply #1 –
This could be extended also to busses, trains, ships, planes... (obviously, you would need to respect the schedule, but this is another issue!!!).
Idea for the GUI: something like the follow me button in the info window, switching to "drive me" mode would change the behaviour of arrow keys: up > start/accelerate, down > brake/stop, right > turn right, left > turn left. If the vehicle is a player vehicle, a schedule window will be displayed, colouring in red the next station you have to stop at. Esc or another key would just return to normal mode.

Re: Drive with a citycar through the simutrans world

Reply #2 –
I once made a version like this. It is not in the trunk but worked via keys you could sent to a citycar via the info window ... However, this is not longer compatible with the code any more.

Re: Drive with a citycar through the simutrans world

Reply #4 –
...This would be easily extendable to one-man taxi service too. :-)
 

Re: Drive with a citycar through the simutrans world

Reply #5 –
Whould it be easier to code, if there are only 2 key-contorls for the player?

1. Turn left next junction
2. Turn right next junction

Have anybody interesset to make this working?