Advance portals

[Leslie]

Hello,

 

I wish a new function for portals. Currently they works random. I recommend use directions, like attached example program:portals.mbp

Thank you in advance!

[Phrontistes]

The point of portals isn't to be placed in the middle of a track. Rather, they can be used to connect two open track ends. And the point of spline tracks isn't to form a single track into a circle. I've been wondering for a while what you're trying to achieve by constantly coming up with such absurd requirements.

[Leslie]

This method allows to switch vehicles between 2 separated tracks with only 2 portals instead of 4. I think this function is useful and not hard to develop.

I think there is no reason to not develop something because it is not common now.

[Goetz]

vor 18 Minuten schrieb Leslie:

with only 2 portals instead of 4

That's not clever, Leslie.
You need four portals to ensure that each portal is assigned to one track end only.
With your method, each portal meets two track ends. But it can only connect to one. And that forces the portal to switch connections. That switching is not random. It happens when the train enters a portal "from behind".

Why don't you use the portals as intended? There's no need to save portals.

four portals.mbp

And anyway, who want's to switch from one track to another in the middle of a track? That doesn't even make sense. It's as if you're trying real hard to break the studio. Why not learn how to use it properly and have fun with it? 

Kind regards
Goetz