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#Fsx runway lights how to#
#Fsx runway lights code#

I have to create two attach planes per light object.

If I start a night time scenario then all lighting objects work as expected. This causes obviously a confusion to the FSX render engine. My test scenario started with day light conditions. BTW, if someone knows any tutorial covering my problem I would be grateful.

#Fsx runway lights code#

The information to use the old FS2004 code will be my next exercise. In another thread I saw( with tears in my eyes) the perfect approach lights created by jtanabodee. If I use ADE lighting then the approach lights begin over the city of Kaufbeuren. It is a derivative because of infrastructure and available space. But my aerodrome does not have a standard lighting system. I am convinced, that there is a simple solution because ADE deals with special designed lighting systems even for FSX. I would be happy if the simple things would work. Ceiling and visibility do not have the priority for the moment. Some segments of the approach lights are only visible from the rear. Even a vertical angular limit was observed. Other segments of the approach lights are switched off, if I come closer than 50m in approach direction. Because a runway edge light is a single object, placed at different locations along the runway. It seems, that FSX handles object instances as entire group. If I am on the runway and the first runway light is at 90 degrees abeam of my position, then the entire runway edge lights are switched off. But I have to accept, that the FX logic follows some undocumented rules. I can control now the situation and have most of the lights switched on during NIGHT, DUSK and DAWN. I made a little progress by examining the thread advised by Bernado (thanks).

#Fsx runway lights how to#

So if someone knows how to bind the effect to ceiling and visibility, it would be great. That is unfortunately not that what I want. The current solution has only two reliable conditions: Day -> on, night -> off. We used to have the lights switched on only in IMC and during ATC night. I have worked in the control tower at that location. So the attach point method would not be usable. If I understand right, I have to use the XML placement method? That would mean a definition like this?:Īs far as I know, I can have only one attach point per object. The attached pictures show my definition in 3DMAX and the scenery result with the seldom case, that the effects are visible. Now I am running out of ideas and need help. The curious thing is, that all the effects disappear even if another location is outside of the distance circle. when I crossed a certain distance towards the effect location or reached a specific view angle, it disappeared. Furthermore I experienced distance problems. I got the same inexplicable results for DAY,NIGHT, DUSK and DAWN. There was no logical system recognizable and even no explanation available how to combine the effect parameters.Īnother attempt was to place the effect with an XML file. I even tested different combinations of effect parameters with unpredictable results. If I leave the effect parameters field empty then the effects are visible during day.

effects are not visible at all (day, night ,dusk, dawn).

placed the lamp as lamp row into the scenery.

defined effect parameters for DAY=0 NIGHT=1 DUSK=1 DAWN=1.

assigned an attach point to the hexagon which defines an FX file to be used.

created a vertical aligned hexagon plane in front of the lamp in 3DMAX.

created a runway lamp based on two cylinders in 3DMAX.

I tried the following to create a simple light source with the intention to create a custom runway lighting system later:

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