I have a CS3 for now, iTrain in my futur, I am trying to do a macro that would combine starting sound for a locomotive but that would also turn on the lights in the passenger cars.
I am using ESU light strips in the cars and they are basically recognized as a locomotive. When I try to add them to the locomotive macro it does not allow it.

Should I be using the M-U (multiple unit) setting that is ordinarily use to have two traction locos? But if so how do I control the lights individually since the F2 F3 etc controls will not be the same as the loco??? (I would like to avoid a complete remapping)

Thank s

Hallo Putputmaru

I don't know about iTrain because I use Rocrail.
Whith events, on the CS3 you may create one that would, in sequence, turn on the lights, start a whistle. An event recoder on the CS3 is there for you
Here is (circled in RED the record button) while editing an event.

You can do ANYTHING you want, record your commands, delete some, change the wait times, etc BUT


There is a big but: when comparing the CS3 with Rocrail:
- you cannot create commands or command strings that are NOT loco specific
- the CS3 does not know which loco is where unlike Rocrail.
- commands inside a Block, in Rocrail, can be about non loco-specific commands (turn on the smoke, whistle, lights) do not need to specify which loco it is for. The loco ID ill be filled by the block itself.

Additionally Rocrail allows to write programs in XML. One of mines list the locations of locos (on the line, in shed, not on the layout) from the Rocrail file and turn on or off the lights depending on the location.

Sadly I cannot include this file here because XML type is not allowed
Cheers
Jean

Can't you create two events and add the one for car lights to the one for the loco?

Hi
In cs3 there is something called event in event. You can make one event for starting sound. Another for turning on lights. Then drag both those events into a new event. Starting the new events will trigger both the events it contains.
TIE