Topic: We need an engine toggle switch? (Read 4881 times)

greenbriggs9 · « **on:** January 02, 2009, 23:44:00 »

Although we love mooring or ships alongside, after a mission, and that feeling of contentment! Don't you feel that there is something missing? Yes! that feeling of shutting the engine down. and making the world go silent. On the other end! you also cant beat the sound of cranking that generator up, then opening the water cock up, then opening the air line, then rotating the engine wheel in to the start position, then hearing all those cylinders fire in to life again! This could be quickly emulated in shipsim, with a small patch. Come on boys, make this patch for us all to enjoy. What do you all think?

Minime · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2009, 23:50:10 »

yeah it would be nice to hear it start, like it does in real

TerryRussell · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2009, 23:57:03 »

Am I misunderstanding something here?

All of the vessel engines have an on/off switch. I always switch the engines off at the end of a mission and listen to them power down.

Similalry, when you start them up, they all give a "start-up sound".

Just click on the engine keys, and you'll see the ignition light go off while the sound dies away.

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2009, 23:57:53 »

Terry, the key is for start up, the button is for shut down.

Minime · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2009, 23:59:06 »

I don't think the start up of vermaas is suppose to sound like starting a little boat engine

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2009, 23:59:53 »

I agree that the sounds should be changed to something more realistic for the vessel. But still, it dose exist.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #6 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:01:36 »

Quote from: Agent|Austin on January 02, 2009, 23:57:53

Terry, the key is for start up, the button is for shut down.

Yeah, yeah. Picky picky.

But the engines DO switch on and off.

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:04:04 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on January 03, 2009, 00:01:36

Yeah, yeah. Picky picky.

But the engines DO switch on and off.

Exactly, so it wouldn't be a "New Feature" but maybe just something that could use a bit of cleaning for the next version... Not a dedicated patch just for that.

greenbriggs9 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:07:16 »

I didnt realize there was a toggle switch, instructions are not clear enough. I will test it on sunday, when i get back home. I will be the judge of the realism. As i have cranked a few boats and ships up in my time. BTW! where is the hotkey for engines on/off, bearing mind i am not on my computer at the mo. Though i can look forward to rushing home and using it instantly.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #9 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:13:25 »

Quote from: greenbriggs9 on January 03, 2009, 00:07:16

I didnt realize there was a toggle switch, instructions are not clear enough.

It seems that it was Ok for a lot of other people though

Quote from: greenbriggs9 on January 03, 2009, 00:07:16

I will be the judge of the realism. As i have cranked a few boats and ships up in my time.

Sorry, that job's already gone.

You'll find that many people on this Forum have been crew members, officers and even captains and Chief Engineers of large commercial vessels. Some have been in similar positions on Naval vessles.

Some of us own several smaller pleasure vessels in the Solent (e.g. me - with 28 foot and 36 foot Sunseekers at present). between us, we might have grabbed that job a while ago.

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:17:43 »

Port Engine: ;
Starboard Engine: '

That is the default keymap.

Quote

            <ActionID> 106 </ActionID>
            <UserAction> StartEngine 1 </UserAction>
            <Primary_Input> Key_Colon </Primary_Input>
            <Secondary_Input> -1 </Secondary_Input>
            <Translate_ID> 3035 </Translate_ID>
         </Action>
         <Action>
            <ActionID> 107 </ActionID>
            <UserAction> StartEngine 2 </UserAction>
            <Primary_Input> Key_Quotation </Primary_Input>
            <Secondary_Input> -1 </Secondary_Input>
            <Translate_ID> 3036 </Translate_ID>
         </Action>

TerryRussell · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:20:36 »

Or to the less technical, use the colon
:

and single quote

'

keys?

greenbriggs9 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:24:36 »

Thank you Austin.

greenbriggs9 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:28:00 »

Terry. You are just bragging, cause you own a sunseekers. I am jelous to feck though. My sister lives in Poole. I go visit her twice a year, and see the Sunseekers factory. I just don't have the money for one of them. Maybe one day though.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #14 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:32:10 »

Us folk what live by the sea (I'm in Selsey) have to have a boat or two. It's traditional!

There is a set of videos on YouTue of me and the missus and my son out on the Solent in one of my boats.

mvsmith · « **Reply #15 on:** January 03, 2009, 01:37:40 »

Engine On/Off is missing from Titanic and Furie for obvious reasons, and its presence probably makes little sense on large ships such as Vermaas, at least on those ships where the Old Man and the Chief are on speaking terms.

A|A, I think Terryâ€™s use of â€œkeyâ€ was generic for switch, button, etc.â€”vis. Telegraph Key. Vermaas, for instance has only buttons.

A lengthy, though lyrical, request for a feature that is visibly present should not necessarily be a cause for embarrassmentâ€”it happens occasionally, though usually from those who seldom, if ever, actually use the ships.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #16 on:** January 03, 2009, 12:02:26 »

Quote from: mvsmith on January 03, 2009, 01:37:40

A|A, I think Terryâ€™s use of â€œkeyâ€ was generic for switch, button, etc.â€”vis. Telegraph Key. Vermaas, for instance has only buttons.

Indeed. I wasn't going to go through the actual iconic representation for each vessel in the game.

The fact that the very thing the original poster desired does actually exist was the imperative messge.

ash · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2009, 18:33:07 »

Quote from: TerryRussell on January 03, 2009, 00:13:25

Some of us own several smaller pleasure vessels in the Solent (e.g. me - with 28 foot and 36 foot Sunseekers at present). between us, we might have grabbed that job a while ago.

what is the 36 foot sunseeker you have?

TerryRussell · « **Reply #18 on:** January 03, 2009, 19:15:55 »

Its a 36 foot Sunseeker.

TerryRussell · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2009, 19:18:25 »

Heh heh. Oh all right.... It's a Tomahawk.
(36.8 ft to be precise)

You can see a similar one here: http://www.sunseekersalesgroup.com/preowned/boatlistings.php?website=sunseeker&webpage=viewspec&pg=2&boat_id=895

Mine has twin 320 hp petrol engines, which give better acceleration and top speed. Fuel tank is larger (250 gallons, I think - perhaps a bit more)

ash · « **Reply #20 on:** January 03, 2009, 20:16:06 »

outdrives? my dad has got a rapallo 36 with twin 300hp ford sabres on shafts. it was a special order in 1989 bright red it is!!

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #21 on:** January 03, 2009, 20:22:00 »

Taking me on a river next summer.

ash · « **Reply #22 on:** January 03, 2009, 20:23:03 »

that boat lift looks um... alien to me!!!hehe

Agent|Austin · « **Reply #23 on:** January 03, 2009, 20:26:46 »

Hoping to get an electric lift sometime in the next few years, but that lift works just fine. The boat is heavy enough where it will splash right down, it is just lifting it up that takes a while. But it gets removed every year so it survives the storm. The dock also comes apart so it doesn't get hammered. I don't know where they are storing the boat in the winter.

ash · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2009, 20:30:41 »

is it a manual winder?

most boats here stay in the water over winter but some owners choose to take their boats out in winter

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