Exterior lights

[flykarli]

Hi Frederic !
Thanks a lot, I will try it tomorow in my Sim.
regards
Karl

[Jerec]

Good morning Frederic,

that seems to be be nice idea with the shockwave lights. I bought it from Simmarket and installed them into FSX and the copied the .fx files to P3D. Unfortunatly, i didn´t got it working for the JL-airbus by using your section in my aircraft.cfg.
The navlights are always on and cant be switched off and when i switch on one landing, everything goes ON (Left, right and wheel), taxi alone doesnt work.
Do i have to setup any other files except aircraft.cfg on my setup?

Regards Henrik

[frederic-r]

Hello Henrik,

Yes, I also have a similar problem. I don't know how JL overhead manages FS lights, but switching some of them on or off on the overhead doesn't update (for me) the corresponding bit in fsuipc offset 0D0C.

In my case :

- Landing lights are working (but right and left together, they are not separated). If I switch them on, bit 2 in fsuipc offset 0D0C is updated.
- Nav lights : Strange, I can turn them on with the OVHD switch, but they don't return to off even if switch is set back to off.
- Strobes are working fine
- Taxi light doesn"t work, the overhead switch doesn't modify my offset 0D0C.
- Same for logo, wings and beacon, offset isn't updated.
- I have linked the FS cockpit light directly with a backlight switch in the cockpit. So, when my panels are backlighted, the cockpit light appears in FS.

So, waiting for a "real" overhead, I had to manage some lights manually in my sioc code, with sioc (cockpit) switches or joystick buttons.

Concerning the shockwave lights, ok for the fx file copied into P3D/Effects. But editing your fx file with a text editor, you'll see a bmp file (in section [ParticleAttributes.x]) which also have to be copied in Effects/Texture. Check for this file too.

For example, in fx_shockwave_landing_light_narrow.fx, you can find Texture=fx_swave_lights_1.bmp.
This file have to be copied in Effects/texture.

Hope this will help you.

Best regards,

Frederic

[frederic-r]

Note ...

Just installed the last update (09/26) and all the lights are now working correctly with overhead switches (except rwy turnoff which is not implemented in ifdg model)

@Karl : fx_vclighth.fx is perfect for cockpit lightning.

Regards,

Frederic

[flykarli]

Hi frederic!
Thanks for your Help. After the last update it goes as it shold.
Regards
karl

[Jerec]

Good morning,

sorry for the late reply.
Thx to frederic and Jean-Luc, after reconfig of my aircraft.cfg with new entries and shockwave files with corresponding texturefiles (you were right, the *.bmp were missing), lights are working now!

Regards Henrik

[SSO]

Also here the taxi lights now work in two different intensities (Taxi / Takeoff).

Great addition.

[Jerec]

Hey Stephen,

for the differential taxilights did you used additional lines in config, or how did you got it working?
Does someone know, how to get the strobes be synchronized as in real?

Regards Henrik

Regards Henrik

[SSO]

I ran the autoupdater and then it worked. No editing at all.
I did not verify the view of the plane, only that looking from the inside of the Flight deck the lights were seen on the ground.
As for the exterior view I have earlier upgraded with shockwave lights - as I have for all my AI planes. A GREAT improvement in P3D.
Yesterday I flew ILS 26L at EGKK and were able to see the two planes ahead on the ILS. A great experience.

[Jerec]

Hey Stephen,

i also use P3D, but after5 update to 2.4 with newest update of fmgs, all lights are flickering in outside view and taxi lights only work in one mode. Is it possible to you post your light config in aircraft.cfg, so i can compare it with my settings? I use the settings from frederic at this time, but i dont know, if the flickering is caused due new fmgs or the uodate to 2.4.

Regards Henrik