Railroad track: Difference between revisions

If an object other than a ghost enters a track from an illegal direction, either by carrying an RR sign (and then dropping it), the way the level starts,<ref group=note>Internally, CC2 records entrance direction independently of the direction that objects face — if the player tries to exit in a legal but blocked direction, they will turn to push against the obstacle, but the legal exits will be unchanged. For actors that start the level on a railroad, the entrance direction is given in the level file. The built-in editor tries to match these whenever an object is placed on a track and force the object to face a legal entrance direction, though there are reports of this failing. [[CCCreator]] and [[CC2Edit]] do not do this, and allow users to edit these directions independently and without having to reconstruct the tile.</ref> or a track switch on the tile activating after the object entered legally (including via [[spring mining]]), the object will become stuck and cannot leave the tile until the direction it entered from becomes a legal entrance again (if the track has no switch, the object is permanently stuck). If an object enters the track in a legal direction and exits in a legal direction from an unwired track with a switch, even if the object is carrying an RR sign, the switch will activate and cycle to the next track. (Note that the enter and exit directions (relative to the track) don't have to be different, so an object with a RR sign can move, for example, up and then down on an unwired switch track which is currently has vertical tracks enabled, and it will still switch to the next track, even if it is impossible to do without a RR sign)