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--- usage:howto [2021-03-19 16:59]
ywang add information on crossings and switches
+++ usage:howto [2022-06-30 19:11]
blockhead Platforms: mention diagonals; nuance about high/low
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 Right-click (or double tap on Android) the signal or power it with a [[usage:mods:mesecons|mesecons]] signal to turn it green. To change to red again, right-click a second time or discard the [[usage:mods:mesecons|mesecons]] signal.
-Used as-is, the signals can only signal the driver; they don't have any effect on trains.
+Used as-is, the signals can only signal the driver; they don't have any effect on trains. Press ''shift''+''e'' whilst right-clicking on the signal to set an influence point. You then punch the rail just before the signal, whilst looking in the driving direction.
 ==== Platforms ====
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-Platforms indicate where passagers should get on the train. There are low and high platforms:
+Platforms indicate where passengers should get on the train. There are low and high platforms:
 {{:usage:craft-low-platform.png?nolink&400|}}
 {{:usage:craft-high-platform.png?nolink&400|}}
-There is a variant, crafted with sandstone instead of stone, included in the modpack. However, more and more platforms are included in this [[http://git.bananach.space/advtrains_platform.git|Minetest mod]]. As well you can [[dev:core:funref:register_platform|create your own]].
+and also diagonal platforms that can be high or low - the high platform recipe is shapeless:
+{{:usage:craft-diagonal-platform-high.png?nolink&400|}}
+{{:usage:craft-diagonal-platform-low.png?nolink&400|}}
+When a player is standing near the platform edge and a train stops with its doors open at the platform, players board the train automatically. This does not work for diagonal platforms yet.
+There is a variant, crafted with sandstone instead of stone, included in the modpack. However, more and more platforms are included in this [[http://git.bananach.space/advtrains_platform.git|Minetest mod]]. You can also [[dev:core:funref:register_platform|create your own]].
+You might want to use low platforms when possible, as they align better with the floor of many trains. However, you might want to use high platforms for heavy rail and low platforms for light rail.
 ==== Detector rail =====
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 ==== Train overview ====
-The most important part of this mod are trains. There are some included in the modpack, but community members made more trains:
+The most important part of this mod are trains. There are some which you are assumed to have, but community members made more trains:
   * [[https://github.com/mbblp/advanced-trains-website/blob/master/trainhub/index.html]] (original link in the [[https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14726|forum post]] is broken)
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   * Sneak+W: set full speed
   * Sneak+Space: Show the Onboard Computer
+  * Sneak+E: Exit the train
 ==== Coupling wagons ====

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