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Traffic lights on jetways

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Hi Jeff, congrats on 1.3.4 release!

Just a quick question regarding parts visibility on jetways. Will the visibility flags work on jetways?

Looks like we'll be able to define a red light for the playing of the forward and reverse animation and a green light for the end of the forward and reverse animations?

Do you think this will work as I describe?

Cheers,
Nick
 
No, the jetways are handled differently than the "standard" triggered animations. They are not hooked up to that part visibility variable.

But since V1.3 there are other variables that are specific to jetway operations and one flag already exists: #_SODE_Jetway_Operation_Flag
The code for checking that bit value can be seen in the modeldef.xml.

This flag is ON whenever the jetway is moving (intended for jetway beacon lights or such), but that would also cover your "red light case".
If you require your green to be on the entire time the jetway is *not* moving, you could add that condition to your modeldef.xml:

Code: 
<PartInfo>
    <Name>#_SODE_Jetway_NotOperating_Flag</Name>
    <Visibility>
        <Parameter>
            <Code> <!-- Masks bit 0 out of the SimVar -->
                (A:VELOCITY WORLD Z, number) near 0x0001 &amp; 0 == if{ 1 } els{ 0 }
            </Code>          
          </Parameter>
        </Visibility>
    </PartInfo>

Above is untested code, but it should work ;-)
 
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