No Taxi or Landing Lights
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No Taxi or Landing Lights
Good Evening,
In the latest build I have no taxi or landing lights showing on the ground. Tried default and payware airports.
I do not think it is my system, the KA350 in the same scenarios displays just fine.
The "bulbs" on the gear appear on, but no splash.
All other lights seem fine.
Joe
In the latest build I have no taxi or landing lights showing on the ground. Tried default and payware airports.
I do not think it is my system, the KA350 in the same scenarios displays just fine.
The "bulbs" on the gear appear on, but no splash.
All other lights seem fine.
Joe
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
I am getting Taxi lights but I do not see landing lights
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
You are correct - I do have a splash for taxi light as well but is pointing almost straight down and provides no illumination for me.sharpless281 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:37 amI am getting Taxi lights but I do not see landing lights
Joe
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
What happens if you position your aircraft over the ground? say 30 or 40 ft up.
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
I found a way to turn on the Wing Lights and they help some. I am using SPADNEXT and this is what I have done
Panel Lights which I was having issues with too AVT_COCKPIT_LGTS BOOL 1 for on and 0 for off
Taxi Lights AVT_LAND_TAXI_SW 1 TAXI 2 LANDING and 0 OFF
Wing Lights AVT_WING_LIGHTS BOOL 1 ON and 0 OFF
The Landing lights are there but not very bright, they are right in front of the wing wheels
The night flight worked, could see the runway on takeoff and landing, Landing lights I guess tell a plane is coming, that's about it. Turning on taxi and wing lights does the trick. If landing lights are on, taxi lights go off as expected
Panel Lights which I was having issues with too AVT_COCKPIT_LGTS BOOL 1 for on and 0 for off
Taxi Lights AVT_LAND_TAXI_SW 1 TAXI 2 LANDING and 0 OFF
Wing Lights AVT_WING_LIGHTS BOOL 1 ON and 0 OFF
The Landing lights are there but not very bright, they are right in front of the wing wheels
The night flight worked, could see the runway on takeoff and landing, Landing lights I guess tell a plane is coming, that's about it. Turning on taxi and wing lights does the trick. If landing lights are on, taxi lights go off as expected
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
If I do as you suggest - using taxi lights I have a light splash hitting the ground, very steep such that it not visible from the cockpit at all, only can see it in spot view.
Same scenario with landing lights on - NOTHING at all, tried various pitch angles.
Joe
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
What you see is a lighted texture in front of the wheel wells (actually the LED landing lights are attached to to the main gear struts. You should have all of these custom .fx files in the ..\Effects folder. Note that the are separate .fx files for the Left, Right, and Taxi light ground splashes:sharpless281 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:33 amThe Landing lights are there but not very bright, they are right in front of the wing wheels
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
Yes they are there but only contain one emitter. Thatt is unusual because as far as I have understood you need two emitters to not have the light iluminate the cockpit.
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
I do have those three files in place, but still only the taxi light has a splash and that can not be viewed from the cockpit.N4GIX wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 10:44 pmWhat you see is a lighted texture in front of the wheel wells (actually the LED landing lights are attached to to the main gear struts. You should have all of these custom .fx files in the ..\Effects folder. Note that the are separate .fx files for the Left, Right, and Taxi light ground splashes:sharpless281 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 1:33 amThe Landing lights are there but not very bright, they are right in front of the wing wheels
Joe
EDIT - I do not profess to be an effects expert - but - I see under Particle Attributes a Color of 66,66,66,10. Isn't that almost black?
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
Thanks Bill, that will help. I will check it out tomorrow evening when back in my plane
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
Yes it is almost black. The actual "ground splash" is not generated by the .fx script at all, but is generated internally by the sim's core engine. The Particle Attributes Color actually controls the brightness of the little blob of 'light' that is supposed to represent the source (LED or light bulb). I've masked that by having a separate lighted polygon to cover that little blob.
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
That is something I've not heard of, but I will investigate. The stock fx_landing.fx has only one Emitter section.matpietsch wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 11:07 pmYes they are there but only contain one emitter. Thatt is unusual because as far as I have understood you need two emitters to not have the light iluminate the cockpit.
My solution was to create custom .fx files and offsetting their position using x,y,z coordinates to effectively move the 'ground splash' ahead of the cockpit.
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
Apparently there was a model error, somehow the fix didn't make it into release.
Please unzip/overwrite: Prepar3D v5\SimObjects\Airplanes\MV_P180E\model with this new model and try it.
(You may have to right click /properties/unblock the file after unzipping)
The only thing this will correct is the lights.
Sorry to drag you into this post Bill
Please unzip/overwrite: Prepar3D v5\SimObjects\Airplanes\MV_P180E\model with this new model and try it.
(You may have to right click /properties/unblock the file after unzipping)
The only thing this will correct is the lights.
Sorry to drag you into this post Bill
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
I really wished that you guys used the lighting effects (nav, beacon, strobes) that you have on other products such as the C310, MD550, King Air etc...not use the default balls of light fx's. Any possibility of getting those fx's implemented at some point?
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Re: No Taxi or Landing Lights
I now have light splashes for taxi light and both landing lights, BUT, as I mentioned above the taxi light is pointing down at such an angle it does nothing for the VC view.
The landing light splashes are visible in the VC immediately forward of the front wing BUT for just a foot or two, but it does absolutely nothing to actually light the runway.
On short final / flare the landing lights are angled down so steep that any light actually reaching the runway is not visible from the VC (5deg nose down to 5deg nose up).
Joe