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Guys I am trying to make a simple cube in Blender and have it blink from white to black. I can do it in Blender using keyframes and setting the diffuse color from white to black and setting a keyframe. Then I advance 5 or 10, change the color and set a keyframe. It blinks from white to black just fine but when I export to a .x and .xanim and import in MCX it says it can't find a linked animation. If I just create the cube and set a color with no animation or I animate the cube to just rotate then it works fine in MCX. I have to assume it is the way I am doing the color changes. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Any idea how to make a working strobe light that I can export to P3D? That is what I am attempting to make, but so far I am striking out.
 
Well, just follow the way in the SDK. So that will be an effect configured in the aircraft.cfg file, at the location on the airframe you want.
 
This is actually the runway end strobe lights. I have been playing around with FXEditor and I think I might have figured it out. Thanks for your information.
 
Hello:

Unless you need a custom 3D model with an Effect (*.Fx) light displayed via an AttachPoint, one would typically implement REILs via this XML: :idea:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/reil-lights-effect.432534/


That would of course be inside an "airport"-type BGL compiled via BGLComp. ;)



You may also wish to review the extensive research on airport lights by Don Grovestine (aka "gadgets") to achieve P3D compatibility: :pushpin:

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/forums/airfield-lights-toolbox.142/


Hope this helps ! :)
 
I tried doing a working strobe in Blender, and while the result was pretty good, it ultimately didn't cut it for me. The technique involved three planes - a small, medium, and large one - with normals facing the ground. At an interval, I'd flip up first the small one, then the medium, and finally the large. As each successive size flipped up, the previous one flipped down. Honestly, it wasn't too bad, but something about the method I was using for the transparency (the old one/one trick for taxiway lights so they don't show during the day) made the border around the image show up when they flashed most of the time, and this ruined the effect. I'd be interested to know if you got it working the way you wanted.
 
I thought I had it figured out. I used a controller and made two instances of my strobe. Inside of FXEditor it looked good but inside the game it looked terrible. Looked like two pulsating blobs. I am going to keep tinkering with the settings on the controller and effect. If I come up with something I will let you know.
 
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