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Locking Standards Highlighter (LST)

By Rick Zabel

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Locking Standards Intro

Helps find low, missing, and high locks,

according to an area’s locking standards

Locked high - yellow with orange dots

Locked low - purple with black dots

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Area Selection

The Area list lets you select the lock settings for the location where you are editing. These Area lock sets are taken from a google spreadsheet linked later in this slideshow. If the settings for your area need to be updated, please contact rickzabel or PesachZ.

Selecting the Area “-” will reset all the lock settings to 0 and disable all of the segment types checkboxes.

The Area selection is also set to “-” if you make changes to the lock set’s settings; when this happens your settings will not be reset to 0.

Your current settings for each road type are saved on page close or reload.

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Highlight appearance - Non Auto locked areas

All segments where the locks are lower than the setting will be highlighted purpleAll segments where the locks are higher than the setting will be highlighted yellow

Segments where the locks match the setting will not be highlighted.

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Highlight appearance - Auto locked areas

Auto locks adds:

Orange - where the Auto (Traffic) lock is higher than your setting

Pink - where the Auto (Traffic) lock is higher than 1 and there is a manual lock set

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LST vs Toolbox

(easily missed locks)

Looking at the same spot on the map with both scripts:

On the left of the map view, major highways and ramps both have locks set too low. Two minor highway segments are set too high for the area’s standard. On the right of the map view, ramps are locked above that area’s standard.

Toolbox just shows locks. LST, on the other hand, highlights those that are locked lower or higher than the area’s standard. (Note that some roads may be locked high intentionally.)

(Toolbox)

(LST)

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LST with Toolbox

Identify lock level without actually clicking on a segment.

(The middle segment is locked higher than the area’s standard)

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Highlight appearance

LST highlights are drawn under the road, unlike other scripts, which draw them over the road. Drawing the highlights under the roads does not affect the color of the road segment so you are still able to identify the road type at a glance.

(Validator)

(LST)

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Example of Everywhere

Randomly selected area showing high and low lock levels mixed with standard locks.

Purple = Low, Yellow = High

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Show LST lock Bubbles

The Bubble shows the standard lock level for the segment type.

The Bubble is placed slightly toward the A node to help avoid interference with Toolbox’s lock icons.

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Highest Rank of Connected Segments (Ramps)

Ramp HRCS ignores the setting (number) for Ramps and instead follows ramp chains until all connected non-ramp segments are found. Once the ends of all ramp chains are found, the highest non-ramp lock will be applied to all connected ramps.

Each of these ramp examples have extra segments to show the code following a ramp chain.

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Highest Rank of Connected Segments (Ramps)

Checking HRCS for Ramps searches ramp chains until all connected non-Ramp segments are found, and the highest of those non-Ramp locks is used for comparison. ��Both of these ramps connect to a freeway that is locked at 5.

The three off ramp segments are drawn in such a way that the forks connect to the mH, which is locked at 3. So, the Freeway lock, 5, causes the 3-locked forks to be highlighted purple.

Similarly, the onramp segment between the mH segments connects to the onramp, which ultimately connects to the Freeway.

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Highest Rank of Connected Segments (Roundabouts)

The HRCS option on Roundabouts highlights according to the highest connected lock level. This effectively ignores the road type of the roundabout segments and looks at the lock level of what they are connected to.

Roundabout HRCS will check each connected segment and each segment of the roundabout to determine the lock level.

In this example the Roundabout and 2 segments are Primary Streets locked at 2, the Major Highway is locked at 3.

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One-click lock raising

Set Locks and Absolute are hidden from users ranks 1,2, and 3.

Set Locks: Raises the locks of each road type on screen up to the lock setting for that road type, or up to your editor rank. Every time Set locks is clicked you will be prompted to check with your State Manager and given a chance to cancel. (Set locks will stop at 150 edits per save)

Absolute: Both raises and lowers lock levels, according to the settings. Absolute is automatically disabled each time “Set Locks” is clicked, which should help prevent locks from accidentally being lowered.

If you do not want to change a road type’s lock level you can set the number to 0. This effectively disables highlighting and lock raising and lowering for that road type.

Set locks will not change locks where you cannot edit, where there is a closure, or where there is a junction box.

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Removing locks and Disabling a segment type

Setting a road type to 1 and checking Absolute before clicking Set locks will return the locks for all segments of that type to Automatic(1).

To disable highlights and lock adjustments for a road type, change its setting number to 0.

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Great Lakes Region one-way lock standard

The GLR lock standard states that all Primary Streets, Streets and Private Roads that are one-way should be locked +1 above the standard

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Area Addition and Locks Standards

You can enter a lock set for another area here. (Be sure to use a new, unique, name; do not duplicate an existing Area name) https://goo.gl/yheKGr

Here are some neat charts https://goo.gl/snlEVk

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Download Link

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People with permission:��GLR SMs�All Champs��To request access to the script, please contact GizmoGuy411, RC GLR or SkiDooGuy, GLR ARC