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Offline SchindlerLift2844

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Constantly visible shaft doors in other sim engines
« on: January 18, 2023, 07:52:55 am »
Is there a known way to make shaft doors in non-active sim engines visible at all times? I'm currently planning a project which will include lift shafts at non-right angles, and as far as I'm aware the only way to accomplish this is by using rotated sim engines, but I did some tests on Simple - Multiple Buildings and for some reason the call buttons of the lifts were visible from other engines but not the shaft doors. Atm I'm thinking it's something in the INI but I haven't been able to find it yet.
If you have any information, let me know.

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Re: Constantly visible shaft doors in other sim engines
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2023, 10:44:27 pm »
I'll take a look, I think I had added something in order to do that, mainly for glass elevators which need their shaft doors visible, but that might be isolated to the individual building/engine, not when the camera is outside of that engine.  The reason they're turned off is to reduce the rendering batch count, which makes the frame rate better.

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Re: Constantly visible shaft doors in other sim engines
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2023, 11:44:27 pm »
I checked it, and in the City Demo building, the Glass Tower's shaft doors are visible when you're in another building/engine.  The Glass Tower has "ShowFullShaft" enabled for the glass elevator shaft in the building file, so that the external track and shaft doors are always visible.  Setting this should solve the problem for you.
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