Road / rail crossings

[neil]

I'm using the latest versions of Simutrans and Pak128.Britain, starting a game in 1980.

I cannot make what we in UK would call a level crossing i.e. rail crossing road without a tunnel or a bridge. I'm sure that in the past it hasn't been a problem but now, no matter what combination I use, it just won't work.

Has something changed? Or what could I be doing wrong?

[Roboron]

To my understanding, it won't work for high-speed railway tracks or if the difference in speed between the railway and the road is too high.

[Matthew]

Also, they can only be autobuilt at right angles. If you want to build a diagonal level crossing, you need to manually build tracks onto adjacent diagonal road tiles. The graphics won't look right, but it works on Extended (which I don't think has changed this).

[neil]

I'm playing the demo.sve saved game that comes with the packset.

It already has several crossings for wooden sleeper rack crossing city road but if I try to build one, it won't let me.

I can delete one of the existing ones (using public service) but it won't let me rebuild it.

Should I have a crossing button on either the Road tools menu or the Rail tools menu?

[makie]

The behave of the program has been changed. I think the saved game is before the program change.
The Pak128.britain may have to be adapted to the new program version.

[prissi]

A level crossing for higher speeds than 35 km/h roads and 100 km/h rails is only available from 1920. When loading old games, the engine will resort to a wrong crossing as last resort. From 1920 there is a crossing wih 160/50 km/h and from 1960 with 160/100, see here https://sourceforge.net/p/simutrans/code/HEAD/tree/pak128.Britain/ways/new-crossing.dat?force=True

[neil]

Is there a .pak file for that crossings .dat file?

With my limited knowledge of Simutrans dev / build, I don't know where to get all the required .img files from to make my own .pak.

[Matthew]

They should be here (use Ctrl+F to search for "crossing" if you can't find the right files). This repository is now aimed more at pak128.Britain for Extended, not Standard, so I don't think you can use any of the .dat files in the directory above.

But as far as I know Standard and Extended images are interchangeable within pak128.Britain.