New Rules
Several new rules have been introduced with SP2 to help with the construction
of sessions.
Consist Check Rule
The Consist Check Rule operates in a continuous cycle waiting for any
consist on the route matching its settings to exist. When such a consist
exists, the rule will switch itself to a complete state and will start
its child rules. While in complete mode, the rule still monitors consists
and when no consist matching the specification can be found, the rule
reverts back to its incomplete state. As such, the rule can operate continuously
like this and through use of nested child rules, can be used to initiate
something else like the playing of a .wav file every time a consist matching
specification exists.
Resource Check Rule
This rule operates in an identical manner to that of the Consist Check
Rule except that it monitors a queue in a specific vehicle/industry. When
the queue reaches the rule's required specifications, the rule reaches
a complete state and activates child rules. When the monitored queue is
no longer matching the specification, the rule goes back to its incomplete
state and resumes monitoring the queue.
Trigger Check Rule
This rule operates in an identical manner to that of the Consist Check
rule except that it monitors one or more track triggers (not to be confused
with industry triggers) for the presence of a train matching the rule's
train filter settings. When any one of the triggers has a train matching
the specification on it, the rule reaches a complete state and activates
its child rules. Once all triggers are clear of any train matching the
specification, the rule goes back to its incomplete state and resumes
monitoring the triggers.
Note that this rule effectively makes the existing Trigger Rule redundant
as it can do everyhing the Trigger Rule can plus more.
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