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MSFS20 Adjusting Airport Lighting

Wookie042

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Hello,
I'm currently trying to adjust the viewing distance of the airport rotating beacon lights in 2020.
The current state is that the beacon lights get drawn in way too late (approx. 5nm) when first approaching an airport.
After it's drawn, it stays visible for far longer (didn't measure the exact distance, but it's much more realistic than the initial 5nm).
Until now, I didn't succeed in modifying the draw distance/visibility.
Is there anyone in here who got some experience messing with this stuff.
There are several beacon.fx files within the X:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Packages\Official\OneStore\fs-base-effects\effects directory, but I haven't managed to get results that are in any way better.
Partly, I'm not even sure if those are the right files to edit and partly I don't understand a lot of parameters found within the .fx files.
I've made some forum posts on other forums already, but until now, nobody seems to be able to help me.
It would already be useful to find the MALSR/MALSF files, since those are visible from a much further distance and to see what differences there exist in the files. However, I wasn't able to find those either.
Hope somebody can help me with that!
 
Davide Ferrara said:
Are effects attachable to and object? I didn't find it on the SDK.
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As for my limited experience with the SDK, they seem to be "attachable" to everything. You can chose to place effects in the object tool within the developer mode. Whether they actually work I haven't tested yet. I can vaguely remember to have read somewhere, that the effects currently available through the SDK are not working. Not sure about this though.
 
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