Just accidentally hit on a series of tubes of various German locos on the Zusi3 sim. The graphics (scenery etc) are nothing special, but I was interested to see that most of the loco cabs had all displays working - GSM-R radio and the three digital displays, including the Fahrplan display (don't remember what that is called, but has speeds, distance marker, stops, lzb start and end etc). I have seen user mods for the latter display for TSW2 (again don't remember where) but nothing on DTG releases. My question is why do so many locos in TSW2 - not just german - have blank displays? From my point of view, these would add much more to immersion than PIS displays - don't spend much time walking around platforms.
I believe these would fall into the category "Do it right or not at all", whereas resources for the first seem to be missing at the moment, so this might take a while, if ever, to be implemented Which is fair, if they get to do for example the EbuLa system, the community would expect it to be the real deal, and that will take some time and patience.
It's indeed not something DTG don't know about. When they find a suitable solution they'd probably love to do something like this, as it does really sell the immersion.
Those are really cool and interesting features and details in Zusi, but it seems that TSW prioritizes things like the "livery designer" and "scenario planner" instead of realistic features and functions that a simulator needs.
What annoys me is the 143 screen in TSW2. It's just a white block in the cab now. In TSW2020, while it was not functional it looked better.
The 'lack of resources' thing I find really annoying - there were people 6 or 7 years ago writing code to extract performance data from railworks (i.e. Trainsim 2014) to display in a pop-up or external tablet facsimile of the Ebula screen - beyond my coding knowledge, unfortunately. I would have thought that Matt or one of his cohorts was aware of and monitoring that activity. Matt has said that elements in the loco that do not add directly to the driving experience have low priority, but the Ebula would make a huge improvement for those wishing to drive without the HUD. GSM-R I accept adds little, although AP has done it on some of their enhancement packs.
