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Traffic Signals
This guide will show you how to create an American-style traffic signal. June's Traffic Signals must be installed in order for you to not have an missing textures. June's Traffic Signals are included in her integration project. There are four components to creating a traffic signal which will be listed below. Roads should be created prior to traffic signals. Textures for the traffic signals must also be loaded first in order for this to work properly!


Sets - Substitute the proper values in place of the sets listed below.
Intersection #: This is the number of the traffic signal intersection you are creating. You should use the same intersection number for the entire intersection when creating a traffic signal.
Signal #: This is the number of the traffic signal you are creating for that particular intersection.
Texture: This is the texture for the pillars for the traffic signal.
Coordinates: Location for the pillars




Pillars
Pillars can be created by using the CreateWallBox2 command. A total of four pillars must be created, one for each corner of the intersection including Northeast(NE), Northwest(NW), Southwest(SW), and Southeast(SE).

DrawWalls = true, true, true, true, true, true
CreateWallBox2 external, int#NW, texture, NW X, NW Z, 1.000, 1.000, 25.000, 0, 0, 0, true, true, true, true
CreateWallBox2 external, int#NE, texture, NE X, NE Z,  1.000, 1.000, 25.000, 0, 0, 0, true, true, true, true
CreateWallBox2 external, int#SW, texture, SW X, SW Z,  1.000, 1.000, 25.000, 0,  0, 0, true, true, true, true
CreateWallBox2 external, int#SE, texture, SE X, SE Z,  1.000, 1.000, 25.000, 0, 0, 0, true, true, true, true




Span Wire
Two span wires should be created for each intersection, both a lower span wire and an upper span wire.

CreateWallBox external, Spanwire#L, Black, SW X, NE X, NE Z, SW Z, 0.0625, 17.000, 1, 1, true, true, false, false
CreateWallBox external, Spanwire#U, Black, SW X, NE X, NE Z, SW Z, 0.0625, 20.000, 1, 1, true, true, false, false



Hangers
One hanger should be created for each traffic signal. One hanger should be placed in the center of each lane on a span wire.

CreateWallBox2 external, hanger#_#, texture, X, Z, 0.250, 0.250, 3, 17.000, 0, 0, true, true, false, true




Signals
Creating signals is very similar to creating hangers. Signals should be created at the EXACT same coordinates as their hangers. TextureOverride is used to display the correct traffic signal.

TextureOverride MainNegativeTex, MainPositiveTex, SideNegativeTex, SidePositiveTex, TopTex, BottomTex
CreateWallBox2 external, light#_# standardframe, X, Z, 1, 1, 3, 14.000, 1, 1, true, true, true, true

Would there be a way to use the action system to create a signalling room to change these? I'm pretty sure Kan did this in one of his buildings.

Quote from: gooper1 on November 22, 2018, 11:05:39 am

Would there be a way to use the action system to create a signalling room to change these? I'm pretty sure Kan did this in one of his buildings.

I would hope so. I intend to continue developing the simulator to include slideshow textures. Slideshow textures would allow different textures to be displayed after a certain amount of seconds.

Example in the load data section:
CreateSlideshow 1, true, redlight, 20, greenlight, 25, yellowlight, 3

After that you can apply the texture Slideshow1 to anything that used a texture before.

Skyscrapersim is dosen't have "CreateSlideshow" command.

Quote from: Hung Hom Station 紅磡站 on January 13, 2019, 04:00:24 am

Skyscrapersim is dosen't have "CreateSlideshow" command.

Not right now, but from what June is saying, it is a feature that she wants to add at some point in the future (and I would actually like it too).

I wish I could add the feature. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to code for ORGE or C++. Does anybody other than Ryan know how to develop the simulator?

I have a question: could you retexture the lights to your country's ones and reposition them vertically instead of horizontally? Like here in Ireland, they don't hang on poles horizontally, but vertically. Also, I could ask my friend if he could try develop the simulator further as I think he knows some C++.