Is there any way to stop the SIM posting the "you have reached the end" message & then closing down to main menu? Would be nice to choose when to end it myself as I often like to properly shut down the train & maybe do some screenshots ect
When you are running a Standard or Career Scenario it is a Task You drive from A to B and on arrival your task has finished and the Scenario is over. If you look at the Scenario Timetable in the Editor there is an arrival time at your end location and a Scenario End time - normally 30 seconds later. - You could try Changing the End time to say 5 mins later and see if that is better for you. If you create a Free Roam Scenario you control where you drive and what you do. And you end the scenario when you want to.
This is hardcoded, as soon as your last instruction is completed AND you've arrived at the specified FinalDestination, the scenario will end.
I know you can add a cold start instruction to a scenario. There must be a instruction to do a shutdown?
Yes, as 749006 already mentioned. Put a StopAt instruction at the end. Let it display a message like "Shut down your engine...". Then add a trigger with an activation time as long as you want the player to have until scenario ends. (eg. 5 minutes). When this trigger becomes active and you're at FinalDestination, the scenario will end. You must however wait that time, else the scenario will not count as finished of course.
One of the scenarios that came with the AP Class 205 has you driving on to Selhurst Depot and you then have to shut down the Diesel engine and do other tasks before the scenario ends
Yea that's the one that made me realise that you can add a Coldstart instruction to some of the locos in tsc. Swith on the batteries and start the engine etc.... I like the way the the 205 can be customised, like window bars and logos etc... if I had of read the instruction manual for the 205 in the first place, I would have known this from the start.
You don't necessarily have to create the scenario. You can copy and edit the scenarios already on tsc.
Best way to learn is to look how things are done by opening existing scenarios in the editor and study the timetable instructions and use of triggers.
