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Ground vehicle lights script

This script was designed to help making ground vehicles more vivid by allowing to have various car lights working as one would expect car lights to work in the real world.

As of now the script enables you to

• Switch back lights together with front (spot) lights on and off by pressing L
  
• Switch surrounding/ambient lights together with front (spot) lights
  
• Automatically light up brake lights when decelerating
  
• Automatically light up turn indicators if your vehicle starts turning
  
• Light up reversing lights when going backwards

Your vehicle needs to have a main cockpit set and have it's name declared in the head of the script (or just name it Driver Seat if you don't want to edit the script at all).
There must be at least one spotlight (offset spotlights work, too) on the vehicle.

1. Name your cockpit / control seat / remote control block
   Driver Seat
   and set the "Main Cockpit" checkbox
   
   
2. Add the tag
   [Front]
   to your spotlight(s) name in the terminal
   
   
3. Add the tag
   [Rear]
   to your rear light(s) name in the terminal
   
   
4. Add the tag
   [Brake]
   to your brake light(s) name in the terminal
   
   
5. Add the tag
   [Reverse]
   to your reversing light(s) name in the terminal
   
   
6. Add the tag
   [Turn Left]
   to your turn indicator light(s) name in the terminal, which should light up when turning left
   
   
7. Add the tag
   [Turn Right]
   to your turn indicator light(s) name in the terminal, which should light up when turning right
   
   
8. Add the tag
   [Ambient]
   to ambient or surrounding light(s) name in the terminal, if you want them to light up with the spotlights
   
   
9. After having set all the tags in the block names, add the script to a programmable block on your vehicle and hit the recompile button

Please note that the scipt just enables / disables the light blocks.
It does neither handle the direction indicators blinking frequency nur light range or color settings, so these have to be set up with the block's own settings, SE offers.

Should you add new blocks or if you have to rebuild some, make sure to set up their respective tags and hit the "recompile" button in the programmable block, which runs the script. This will reinitialize the script in order to find new blocks.

I intend to add the following features within a future update:

• Fog lights, which turn on automatically depending on the current weather situation
  
• A mode to combine brake lights and turn indicators, so turning and braking can be indicated using the same light blocks