Features - Signals
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This page presents the Japanese signals that are included in openBVE as the default signals. Custom signals will also be possible and do not have to follow the rules as presented on this page. Japanese signals follow quite a simple concept. A stop signal (●停止) generally does not allow you to pass it, while a proceed signal (●進行) allows you to travel with the maximum speed as permitted by the route. Signals in between them instruct you to travel with successively reduced speed. See the following chart for signals directly supported by openBVE. Generally, the speed restriction signal (●●警戒) means 25 km/h, the caution signal (●注意) around 40-55 km/h and the reduced speed signal (●●減速) around 50-75 km/h. The speeds applying vary from company to company and even from route to route. An additional aspect, the high speed aspect (●●高速進行), is introduced with openBVE. This type of signal is found on the Hokuetsu Express Hokuhoku Line and possibly on the Narita Rapid Railway. It allows express trains to travel beyond 130 km/h, where a normal proceed signal is restricted to 130 km/h. Further information about Japanese signals can be found here. |  |
High resolution chart (992x1248, 262 KiB)
Accessing signals in CSV routes
The speed limits applied to the signal aspects can be defined via the Route.Signal command, which has the following syntax:Route.Signal(Index) Value
where Value is the speed limit for the aspect and Index is any of the following aspects:
- 0: stop (●停止), default: 0 km/h
- 1: speed restriction (●●警戒), default: 25 km/h
- 2: caution (●注意), default: 55 km/h
- 3: reduced speed (●●減速), default: 75 km/h
- 4: proceed (●進行), default: unlimited
- 5: high speed (●●高速進行), default: unlimited
The signals can be shown using the Track.Sig (or Track.Signal) command, which has the following syntax:
Track.Sig Number; Label; X; Y; Type
where Number can be any of the following values:
- 2: two aspects, type A (二灯式Ａ)
- -2: two aspects, type B (二灯式Ｂ)
- 3: three aspects (三灯式)
- 4: four aspects, type A (四灯式Ａ)
- -4: four aspects, type B (四灯式Ｂ)
- 5: five aspects, type A (五灯式Ａ)
- -5: five aspects, type B (五灯式Ｂ)
- 6: six aspects (六灯式)
