I understand what you mean with the plates, but would you need 4 different repaints just because of the plate though... You can only have 1 repaint, you wouldn't notice it... Again I did answer that I will consider switching the plates to a spearate texture so the subject is closed.
Yes IT WORKS. That is supposed to work like that !!! Please read the following explanation, because you are just wrong... And I already tried to explain that to you before. Your answer makes me believe you have not bothered to read mine.
The A/C button turns on Air conditionning. The purpose of air conditionning, thanks to some chemical wizardry, is to blow air colder than the air you took from the outside.
Let me explain how a HVAC works :
Firstly with AC off. You take air from the outside of the bus, via a cabin air filter. This air is blown in the cabin via a blower or ventilator. If you want to have colder air, you can't, without AC. The blown air can never been, colder than the air from the outside. That's physics. If you want to be hotter, you just heat the outside air with the hot coolant from the engine. Of course, for the temperature to change in the cabin there needs to be airflow. That is provided by the blower. That means that you can put whatever temperature you want on your button, if the air is not blown in tjhe cabin, it will not heat up the cabin. That's just plain logic, seriously try it in your car, if you turn the fan speed below 1 the HVAC just turns off.
Then with the AC.
AC uses a simple chemical reaction. There is a fluid, called refrigerent, that has a very low boiling point. Usually modern vehicles use R1234yf which starts to boil at -30°C. An ebullition is a very energy intesive chemical reaction. When it starts to boil, the refigerent takes heat from its environement via the evaporator. A compressor then compresses the cold gas out from the evoparator to make it go in a condenser and cool down to get back to liquid form. Then a reducer takes the fluid back to atmospheric pressure to start the reaction again.
Basically, the fluid absorbs heat inside the bus which cools it, and put out heat outside wia the big condenser unit on the roof. The second effect of that, is that it allows to blow cold air thanks to a heat exchanger.
This means that if you want to be colder than the outside air, you need to press the AC button, by doing so you'll notice that your bus starts to cool down. Do the test, try to put 18°C on the button, with a bit of air blower, and an outside temp of 30°C. Without AC you will never go below 30. With AC you will.
Now what you are on about is wrong, unless you have a reversible heat pump, which to be fair is the case on modern electric bus, pressing the AC button will NEVER heat the bus. A conventionnal air conditionniong system which is non reversible has no ability to heat up the room. This is done as I said before with engine coolant.
Now I explained the physics behind an HVAC system, let me address your concerns one by one.
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It does not matter if you press the AC/heating button, heat is only applied if you turn the vent to something > 0. No matter if you press the button or not. What works is the temperature presets: the temp will not be higher than that.
Completely normal, AC and heating shall not be mistaken for the same thing. So yes as long as you set your temperature to the temperature you want, and that temperature is higher than outside temperature, no matter if you press AC or not it will heat up. The only effect of AC when you heat, is that it drys the air. Hence your windshield demists faster with AC.
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The normal behaviour should be that turning the vent even to 100% should have no effect on temperature as long as you don't press the heater / AC button. But it's heating anyway, it just has to be something above 0.
This statement is incorrect. AC and Heating are not the same thing. AC only cools air, it does not heat it. So yes, it's heating when you put fan speed thanks to warm engine coolant
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As for the speed of heating: it's not always fast. It's turbo-heating when the engine has run for a while. There seems to be a very high dependency between engine temp and heating, which is good but much too high.
As said before, it's the heat of the engine that heats up the bus, therefore it makes perfect sense that the bus heats up faster when the engine is hot.
All those fake statement make me think you have never driven a car in your life. If so you would realize that to get heat you need engine temp and fan speed...
I will not come back on that subject again. The HVAC of this bus does work, and if you still don't believe me, fine. But deal with it because you are just mistaken. I undertand my answers are not to your satisfaction and you would like to see me appologise and say I'll fix it, but I will not tell you that because that is false.
Just a little clarification, in my real job appart from OMSI, a part of my formation was extensive theory lessons about HVAC system. How it works, their physics, even calculation and the use of the Mollier diagram which explains it all. We also got some pratic. So don't test me on that, even though I'm not working on the HVAC system in my current position, I know what I'm talking about.
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ANSI/UTF8:
If you do not change it to ANSI any german and probably some other countries characters will be not displayed correctly. If you want to try it just load a bus with the TH-Wald hof and select destination 2 "Müller Touristik". you get something like "M?ller Touristik". When you convert the otf files it will work. The scripts will also have bugs because of that, OMSI just can't deal with UTF coding.
I have not messed with the hof files, they are in the format their author saved them in. However the matrix display could not support accents, I will check that. Though this will not enduce bugs in the scripts as non of the variables use accents. The most of your worries is comments that could not show properly, but that does not impact performance.
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AI-busses:
Unfortunetly I can't use the 7700A as AI bus. As AI bus the bus opens the front door and then some kind of a loop starts (you hear a noise loop from the bus) and the bus won't move anymore.
Indeed the buses were not optimised to be used as AI and thus not tested in this scenario, so I'm not surprised if there are bugs. Howver, it looks like quite a few users would be interrested to have AI working so in a the next update I'll add AI specific version with no interior.
Heating / AC:
There are the old triggers for heating and standheizung_toggle still in the script without any function besides playing a click sound. The standheizung-trigger should be turned off for this bus as there is no switch for it. But even the manual button (nr. 6) you should press to turn on and off the AC or heating does not work. Heat is only applied when you turn the vent (3) to the right regardless of if button 6 is on or off, and then the bus heats up in seconds from cold to sauna. Unfortunetly this is far from a working system.
Interior Lights:
passengers always complain that it is too dark in the evening, although light is on.
There is a switch for standheizung. If your bus does not have AC, its in place of the AC button. If your bus has AC it's on the left side. All of this is in the manual.
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