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This elevator works from 1 to n floors (altho just a single floor doesn't really make sense, does it). The panel in the cab can have 25 buttons at maximum. The buttons and their labels are generated at runtime by script, according to the elevator's floor configuration. Buttons and labels auto-arrange on the panel, based on the number of accessible floors, to always form an "aesthetically pleasing" pattern of buttons on the panel. These arrangements are fully programmable, but I supply default ones that support from 1 to 25 buttons.
Configuring the elevator means adding floors in CK and reflinking them to the elevator controller, or simply deleting them. Oh, and you have to tell the elevator controller the number of the lowest floor. Nothing else is required really, as the controller then enumerates the floors automatically. You can however configure overrides for each floor, to make the floor:
a) have a symbol instead of a number (for example, "L" for Lobby instead of 0)
b) use a custom symbol as negative sign (for example "B" for Basement instead of -, so B1 instead of -1)
c) be inaccessible from the panel (floor will be counted, may or may not have doors and there is no button on the panel for it)
d) require the player to have a configurable "keycard" item in their inventory, or they wont be able to select the floor (locked floor)
Some settings, such as what symbol to use as negative sign, can also be configured "system wide", directly on the elevator controller.
The floors can be at arbitrary heights and intervals and there may be empty sections devoid of floors (as far as the elevator is concerned).
Each floor may have zero, one or two doors and zero, one, two or even more call buttons on the floor itself.
For the 221 floor elevator from the video, I configured all the floors with numbers from xx1 to xx9 as inaccessible from the panel. This results in the button configuration 10, 20, 30, 40, ... as shown in the video.
Little extra: The elevator music is an actual radio, so you can make it play any radio station you want.
As for travelling between cells, it should be doable with clever placement of elevators and automatic load doors.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illinois
You sure love to push the scripting ideas lol.
well done !
Is that a thingy now
Planing a mod on that ?