Destination Dispatch Bugs & Suggestions

[MultiMonorail]

Here are some bugs I found while playing with the Destination Dispatch system in it's initial form:

• If an elevator with no destination has it's doors open and the user enters a destination, the elevator doors will close since it thinks it's not on the pick-up level. But then, the doors will instantly open up again since the elevator is already on the pick-up level.
• What should've happened is that if the elevator is already at the pick-up floor and the doors are open, it should skip the closing and opening the doors part.

This also has an effect on a multiple elevator scenario:

• If an elevator with no destination has it's doors open and the user enters a destination, a different elevator will come and pick-up the user instead of the one that already has the doors open and is on the floor.
• At the same time, the elevator that's already on the floor will go down to the destination floor.

Also, the directional chime and lights don't work, I'm not sure if this was intended.

One more thing: Floor buttons inside the elevator should still light up even in DD and hybrid mode. This is seen in many elevators with a hybrid configuration.

Besides all of that, this is a good start to the Destination Dispatch feature!

[MultiMonorail]

Tested the new update, and looks like most of the stuff is good! There is a couple things though:

• The minus and the star buttons don't work. Right as I press them, the indicator says "??"
• Also, in the Triton Center, if an elevator doesn't have an ID set, the elevator number won't show on the indicator since there's no texture for "<ID" or "ID>" for the service elevators.

[eventhorizon5]

The minus and star buttons are now fixed, I had just forgotten to add the new code for them and do testing. I'll fix the Triton Center too.

[MultiMonorail]

I just found some new things:

• If you enter a floor with a 0 in front of it (01, 03, 005), it will default to the actual floor number and not the ID.

• One elevator can't store more than one of the same route at a time. For example:

  1. I call an elevator from floor 1 and have it go to floor 10.
  2. When the elevator is in transit to that floor, I call the same route from the same floor (Floor 1 to 10).
  3. The same elevator is assigned.
  4. When the elevator comes back down, the doors open and close, but the elevator won't go to floor 10.
  5. If I try to request the route again, it will say to take elevator A, but the doors won't open. To fix this, I call a different route.

[eventhorizon5]

Both those issues have been fixed. The second one had to do with how the controller wouldn't allow multiple identical destinations, I removed that check and it works now.

[MultiMonorail]

Just tested out the new update, and it looks like all of the issues are now fixed! I do have something that I would like to suggest that hasn't already been talked about:

In many DD systems, the indicator is placed within the digital touchscreen panel:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/109993536/234938231-bfc211e9-acaa-4836-a14c-95bb49dca563.mp4

Would it be possible to recreate this in Skyscraper? In the current state, if I try to recreate it by putting the indicator over the button panel, the indicator blocks the buttons, even with a clear texture.

What I think would be best is to have an option for the indicator being able to be clicked through. That way, the keypad function can still work, as shown in the video.

[eventhorizon5]

A clear texture won't fix the problem you're having, because the simulator does a raycast to hit the indicator (polygon), and so even if a clear texture is used, the polygon is still there and it gets hit. I can look into if the indicator can be tagged invisible so that the raycast won't hit it, I haven't tried doing that before so I'm not exactly sure how it would be done yet.

[aeroglass7]

I found another glitch: If you enter a destination on one call station, it works exactly how it's supposed to. However, if you already did that and then enter that same floor on another call station, then the one you originally entered your floor on will chime and show the assigned car letter. In real life, whichever one you use will show you the car letter, regardless of whichever one was previously used for the same floor.