Traffic light with just red and green?

[simonjackson1964]

There isn't one - not that I can find anyway. Oh there's one with an arrow pointing to the side, one with a cyclist or pedestrian, but not one with a plane green light.

So I made my own!

It's the red and yellow one. I tried putting a blue filter but you get yellow light by mixing red and green. Adding blue actually gave me off-white! So I coloured the filter a nice bright green and added the glow. The filter is a circular primitive 1.4mm in diameter positioned just in front of the yellow lens. The texture on it is "Riffelblech" or "Checker Plate" which is a pretty close match to that on the red light. Come on, no-one's going to look at it that closely!

And finally there's the matter of making the light go on and off when the yellow light behind it does...

My question is: is there a way of saving this along with it's code so that I can easily use it elsewhere?

[Goetz]

Hello Simon,

vor 42 Minuten schrieb simonjackson1964:

is there a way of saving this along with it's code

You may save (and import) it as a simple layout, containing nothing but the traffic light and the code.
No baseplate!

Greets
Goetz

 

[simonjackson1964]

Thanks Goetz. I didn't know you could do that!

How? I have managed to export the layout as a .mbp file but cannot see any way of importing it into anther layout. I managed to export it as a .mbe file, which I can import, but it didn't save the functionality. I'm clearly missing something.

Found it!

Paste From > Layout

Edited July 26, 2021 by simonjackson1964
Found the answer myself!

[simonjackson1964]

Saved to the catalogue as 41BABA4C-368F-42EE-9C3D-60E50EE2D66A in case anyone else wants to use it