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MSFS20 Animated Light

TL-Creation

TL-Creation

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Hi, im trying to make some animated light in blender for a lighthouse to msfs. I have made my light flashing and different color (Animation) in blender, but cant push the animation down as an NLA animation? Like other objects do, is there no way i can export different colored light flahsing?

I am aware of the Blender2msfs exporter options for lights, but they cant display different colors

Hope someone could help :)
 

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I don't know the solution but I'd try making the light a child of a polygon and animating the polygon.
 
The flash cycle and duration can be set through the MSFS parameters of the light in the Blender2MSFS toolkit. Color changing I don't know.
 
TL-Creation said:
But i just want a light to change color and flash, not any polygons. But thanks :)
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You dont need to see the polygon. Just use an "empty" , animate it, then parent the light to the empty. Or you can just use a regular polygon with a transparent texture.

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stinger2k2 said:
You dont need to see the polygon. Just use an "empty" , animate it, then parent the light to the empty. Or you can just use a regular polygon with a transparent texture.

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Even that won't help him what he's trying to achieve. Using a polygon to parent the light to might be useful to move or rotate the light. But he wants to change the light color and intensity which I think is not possible except for a flashing sequence which can be set in the light's MSFS parameters.
 
fabs79 said:
Even that won't help him what he's trying to achieve. Using a polygon to parent the light to might be useful to move or rotate the light. But he wants to change the light color and intensity which I think is not possible except for a flashing sequence which can be set in the light's MSFS parameters.
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Yes exactly, i have parented to a object so it rotates around, but it cant change the color with that:)
 
Sounds like you might be better off creating an fx and attaching that to the model.

It's likely that MSFS doesn't support animating light colours. Not all animations available in Blender are supported in MSFS.

Or consider why you need the light to change colour. If it's something simple like toggling between white and red you could create two lights and switch (or rotate) them.
 
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