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A developer conference took place on 2021-10-23 at 20:00 UTC. Only a few people were invited.
@orwell mentioned timetable system as one of the current priorities. In the future, when the timetable system is mature, it might be possible to change the signaling system in a way that respects timetables (e.g. to prioritize late trains).
Imre's pull request to add the “G” command (wait for a green signal as a specific position) needs review.
Currently most parts of advtrains does not come with unittests. This has led to multiple cases where the introduction of new features unintentionally broke existing setups. However, as advtrains is a large project, it should be expected that unittests will be added very slowly.
The development of the dlxtrains mod led to a discussion on the train livery system, which is currently very limited. The following solutions were discussed during the conference:
Additionally, @gpcf brought up a few points that should also be taken into consideration:
The following points were also discussed:
new-ks
branch will be removed as it is way too far from maturity.trainhud
branch is ready for review.punch
event, it should be possible to send a message to the player who punched the operation panel.