This is by far one of my favorite Derail Valley mods, and I really appreciate how much it feels like an official feature. On that note, I know that the B99 compatibility is an issue, and we likely have B100 on the horizon - and who knows what challenges that may bring to the mod. Since B99.4 is out now, I was curious as to what work on the mod is looking like and if you decide to continue development on it. Regardless, thank you for the many hours of enjoyment with this incredible mod!
question on derail speeds: does the front truck have the same amount of effect or more effect than the trailing wheels? Like, can a 4-8-0 go faster than a 2-8-2 in the mod?
Would it be an idea to make a "light version" of this mod with fewer wheel arrangements that works first and trying to get the duplexes to work later on? This question is based on the assumption something specific is holding you back. Don´t take this as an "I want you to do X". I just wanted to share my thoughts. Take your time and do what you do to your hearts content. Wether you decide you want to finish it off all in one piece or that some arrangements will never come back because it´s too much work to get them to work again, I´ll be happy either way.
if you did make an articled steam engine you could limit where it could spawn like it cant spawn in round houses and that's it of course that takes time to implement and continue taking your time updating for b99 .
I did read the description. If you limit where they spawn and then make the locomotive longer so it doesn't look cursed but i do understand that that is really hard so a more realistic question. also is a tank engine s282 possible it would be cursed but some shop switchers were just converted tender engines. I realized i worded my comment poorly the first time apologies.
Making the locomotive longer is hard because of the way the mesh is set up. The smokebox and boiler is all one "cylinder", so you can't stretch the boiler without stretching the firebox. So I'd have to either completely replace the boiler and smokebox meshes or make some kind of "extension" that covers up the old firebox.
Also I kinda burned out on working on this mod... Thinking about working on it some more after the new DV update comes out (which is theoretically this month, March 2025), since that update might break things.
An S282 tank engine is possible but tricky since it requires modifying a bunch of stuff. Probably won't happen. Converting the S060 to a tender engine is slightly more possible since it mostly just requires deleting stuff, but it turns out that Altfuture didn't model the bottom of the S060's boiler, so I'd have to fix that somehow. Also might be annoying to get the S282's tender to spawn behind an S060... might happen but don't hold your breath
Thanks to both of you for reading the description. I know there's a lot of words there, I'm ADHD so I understand if you all are just skimming it lol. I've noticed people are surprisingly good at reading it before asking questions.
you can use a glitch to hook a 282 tender to the 060 it just takes more coal than it needs though it seems to work sometimes. you go to the squares above the driving ui. photo mode and stuff are there, and glitch on the coupling menu and in the left corner it will appear. and then you connect it from the locomotive and sometimes it will connect coal and water, and use way to much coal and water.
also reread the description and found this All others either: would look too strange (2-6-0, 2-4-0, 4-14-4, etc.) or would take too much effort to add to the game (e.g. articulated locomotives) so you did say it. i downloaded this mod after hyce made his video on it so maybe it wasn't there at the time or i didn't read the description, probably the ladder. Fun fact that this mod was the thing that got me to get nexus mods's so yah.
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"When it is ready."
Also I kinda burned out on working on this mod... Thinking about working on it some more after the new DV update comes out (which is theoretically this month, March 2025), since that update might break things.
also reread the description and found this
All others either:
would look too strange (2-6-0, 2-4-0, 4-14-4, etc.)
or would take too much effort to add to the game (e.g. articulated locomotives)
so you did say it. i downloaded this mod after hyce made his video on it so maybe it wasn't there at the time or i didn't read the description, probably the ladder. Fun fact that this mod was the thing that got me to get nexus mods's so yah.