Distance Meters / Signal Aspects / Irons

[PSharp217]

at some point will the R142, 143, 160 A/B and 179 have the distance meters installed on the POS Display.

Its there a way to make the Sealed Beams Brighter when the reversers are thrown?

Will we be able to read the signal irons and aspects from the POS. Just a though if not already in development.

[Mr Railfan]

i've been trying for a good year to find a plugin for this to use on my R143, but to no avail. It should be possible to get the distance to show up but i have no idea how to. Also the Screens don't show signals aspects in real life. The left CBTC screen shows the distance that is clear up to the next train.

[HijauKuda]

Maybe this will help.
The OS_ATS plugin does have attributes called "travelmeters". 
I think this is an odometer that allows displaying miles or kilometers.
Here's the download site.  http://koti.welho.com/tuusaare/

[PSharp217]

thanks will that work for Distance to Car Marker or just speed in general. All Consists have the distance to Car Marker whether it be 8 or 10 Cars.

[HijauKuda]

thanks will that work for Distance to Car Marker or just speed in general. All Consists have the distance to Car Marker whether it be 8 or 10 Cars.

Speed = "distance/time", not just simple distance, so speed is a different variable altogether.
The OS_ATS plugin was written for BVE4 long before openBVE, but does work with openBVE under Windows.

Distance variables available for use in openBVE .animated files include:
"distance" = Cartesian meters from object to closest car
"distance[carIndex]" = Cartesian meters from object to specified car.  0 if car does not exist.
"trackDistance" = +|- meters from object to closest end of train.  Positive if train in front, negative if behind, 0 if object between train ends.
"trackDistance[carIndex]" = +|- meters from object to specified car.  Positive if car center in front, negative if behind, 0 if car does not exist.

See this for more information on .animated variables:  http://web.tiscali.it/fopenbve/develop/object_animated.html#variables