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Adding Lights to Scenery objects

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Hi all,
I am trying to recreate a Naval Field Landing area. It looks much like the markings on an Aircraft Carrier, but it is on Naval stations runways for practice. I have been trying to add the lights that define the zone using FSDSV3, but to no avail. does anybody know how to do this?? Thanks in advance for any advice.
Ryan
 
Is this for FSX? What design program are you using? FSDS v3.5.1?If so I mihgt be able to help. If youi use Gmax, Arno or others might be able to help. Bob
 
Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP) markings (for FS9) can be found at flightsim dot com. If you need a set for FSX, email me and I can help. I made my first set using FSDS by just making the right shapes out of planes and setting it up to be semi-transparent and placing it with EZ Scenery .01 meter above the runway.

Jim Dhaenens
 
Jim- Seems we have a mutual friend in Bill MacKay!

Two items here.

A. looking for a ground light effect... light that is cast on the ground from a lamp. i.e. attachpoint.

B. cone dhaped lihgt as if coming from a lamp.... effect

From here I imagine I can copy one of my partsdatadef and change the name to match the effect and also make a new partsName to point to the datadef so I can make an attach point in FSDS and get this effect if I want to make a lamp shining on the ground.

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You might notice at Avism and/or flightsim a scenery I made long ago with rwy and txiwy lights. Two styles, one set appears at night, the other appears with a radio freq you set on your radio.

These worked great, but they are very dim, hard to see a few miles out. Wondering if you have any ideas on how to make these much brighter. I did it in FSDS 3 but I have since lost the fsc file, unless I have it on disk somewhere. Opa Marshall gave me the idea many moons ago. Bob
 
jyarddog and Otter515:

You may also add runway lighting through effects using one of the beacons, but a while ago I made a single runway light mdl with BGLC, (thanks Dick!) and have populated a Library .bgl with this model. It retains all the characteristics of a runway light including being able to see it from a distance.

In FSX it looks a bit larger than the normal runway light and a bit smaller than the white PAPI lights. its color is about the same as the PAPI lights. It's on at dusk, off after dawn.

Attached below is the original .mdl, the library .bgl, and the bgl.txt file.

I've tried getting it to attach to an attachment point in gmax and have been unsuccessful. If you folks find out how for either FSDS or GMAX, please let everyone know.

Thanks,

Jim
 

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Jim- Thanks muchly. You might be on to something. If this could be turned into an fx file for effects maybe someone could write a partsdatadef which would point to it; then a patrsNames pointing to the datadef thing. We then could attach it to an object.

My rwytsilights would be brighter farther away if I could redo the the project. Having lost my FSDS project on it I'd be starting from page one again.

This light of yours should come in handy, maybe different colors too.

Ah... so much to learn, huh!! Bob
 
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