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Adds manually operated brakes to each car. Supports VR, mouse interaction, and keyboard controls. Integrated with the Heads-up Display and Air Brake mods.
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Turn the wheel to set/release handbrakes, or jump on a car, and use the keyboard controls for locomotive Independent Brake (F7 / K to release, F8 / L to apply). If the train is stationary, you can combine these keys with Shift to set or release the handbrake on all cars in the same train as the current car.
If the Air Brake mod is installed, trains will have some of the hand brakes set when they spawn, to prevent the trains from rolling away. The cars with hand brakes set will always be grouped together at one end of the train. You can change what proportion of the train will have hand brakes set in the mod settings. By default this is 10% of the train, rounded, so expect 1 or 2 cars to have hand brakes set. Be sure to release them before moving the train.
Similarly, before turning in a job you are required to set hand brakes on some of the cars in a cut. The proportion required is always adjustable via the mod settings, with the same 10% default. You can change this setting to 0% to disable this requirement.
I recommend using the Heads-up Display mod to know which cars have their manual brakes set.
Custom Car Loader Integration
If you are creating cars for Custom Car Loader, you can create a transform named [DvMod.HandBrake] at the root of your car prefab, as a sibling to the [colliders] transform. When Hand Brake is loaded, any meshes and/or colliders under this transform will be hidden, and a handbrake wheel will be placed in this location instead.
DO NOT REPORT BUGS TO THE GAME DEVELOPERS IF YOU ARE RUNNING MODS.
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If the Air Brake mod is installed, trains will have some of the hand brakes set when they spawn, to prevent the trains from rolling away. The cars with hand brakes set will always be grouped together at one end of the train. You can change what proportion of the train will have hand brakes set in the mod settings. By default this is 10% of the train, rounded, so expect 1 or 2 cars to have hand brakes set. Be sure to release them before moving the train.
Similarly, before turning in a job you are required to set hand brakes on some of the cars in a cut. The proportion required is always adjustable via the mod settings, with the same 10% default. You can change this setting to 0% to disable this requirement.
I recommend using the Heads-up Display mod to know which cars have their manual brakes set.
Custom Car Loader Integration
If you are creating cars for Custom Car Loader, you can create a transform named [DvMod.HandBrake] at the root of your car prefab, as a sibling to the [colliders] transform. When Hand Brake is loaded, any meshes and/or colliders under this transform will be hidden, and a handbrake wheel will be placed in this location instead.
DO NOT REPORT BUGS TO THE GAME DEVELOPERS IF YOU ARE RUNNING MODS.
Source Code