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FS2004 A couple of problems with AFLT 4.4.3.5

Tom, I wasn't notified of your post and only discovered it yesterday. (I've had enough going on this past week that I didn't have to go looking for trouble.)

Your post reminded me that, while I once had excludes covering large areas, following your discovery noted above, I converted all my broad excluded to micro-excludes (excluding only single objects) to avoid the excluded attachments issue.
 
Guys, good evening everyone and sorry if I disappeared without a trace, but the work has absorbed me to the point of having to completely neglect my project. I would like to start again and I will try to go ahead in the next few days...
 
I have a problem to understand the excludes and aflt light problem.

Why are the posts exluded and the horizontal bars not?
 
Guenther, you've got to give me some context - and the project folder - if I am to understand what you are referring to.
 
I refer to this post of Tom, because I can confirm this. If there are excludes, the AFLT posts are gone and the horizontal bars stay...
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FS2004 - A couple of problems with AFLT 4.4.3.5

Hi Don, hi all. I'm approaching to the "lighting" part of my last project so I'm studying your last AFLT and I'm making some tests. At the moment I have some problems. I try to explain them. I have a rapid exit taxiway made of 6 links. I used "edit link lighting" command and added amber/green...
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Guenther, you must have a VERY vivid imagination and think mine the same to expect me to have made a connection with previous reports of exclude issues over six months old by simply asking "Why are the posts exluded and the horizontal bars not?" - especially since none of those previous reports referred either to "posts" or horizontal bars".

What I can tell you is the in approach light towers, the horizontal bar is the main object to which is attached (as attached objects) one or more posts and one or more light heads. Both the post(s) and the head(s) have been excluded; for whatever reason, the bar has not.

From the earlier discussions it should be clear that the underlying issue is how FS9 handles excludes. I am at a loss to explain this phenonoma. I strongly doubt AFLT is contributing to the issue an any way.

It seems doubtful you would use excludes to remove AFLT_based objects. Therefore, it seems to me the solution is to more precisely manage your excludes - as I proposed in the top post on this page.
 
It appears that FS9 excludes remove any attached objects, and as Don says, the rest of the approach structures are attached to the horizontal bars. Thus only the horizontal bars appear. As I remember this also affects the VASI structures (I think). I know of only two solutions:

1. As Don says, redraw your exclude rectangles to avoid the areas where they remove 3D AFLT objects.
2. Create your own structures as library objects and place those separately.
 
Thanks Tom, it was a large exclude, which caused the problem. I have had it replaced by "micro excludes" from the "Stock" ADE XML, but used the wrong bgl, so sorry and thanks for your assistance.
 
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