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Attach Points (Effects vs Lights)?

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I'm hoping someone might be able to help me figure this out for a freeware/public domain project, as my google searches are not turning up the infomation I need to solve the problem.

I'm trying to attach the fx_navgre.fx or fx_navred.fx to some small boats in the vehicles_water.bgl file.

In ModelConverterX I tried putting in the atchpt_effect_00 and calling up the fx_navgre.fx file with night/dawn/dusk switches on (also tried just "0" as a switch) and also have located the fx attach point in the x,y,z axis', however when I go into the sim, I'm not seeing the effects showing up.

(I backed up the original BGL and exported the tweaked models to a new file with the same GUID's).

When I had the dusk, night, dawn flags on the boats (i had as stationary boats in my scenery file) the boats disappeared at dusk. When I just had a straight flag of "0" (as per other attached fx in other boats), I don't see the effects showing up at all (however the MDL boat is still showing up).

Does anyone have any idea what I could possibly be doing wrong? And should I be trying to attach a light instead of an effect? I need to place these as attachments to the MDL as the lights need to be in specific spots.

Any help would be appreciated, it's something I've wanted to do since FSX was released and I want to give it into the public domain, as why should all the planes have nav lights and not the boats?

(Note: I just realized maybe my attach point needs to be the same as the effect name? but maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree)
(Note 2: I just realized boat traffic is different to static boats, re-testing)

Thanks in advance,
Dean.
 

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Okay in answer to my own question, user error. I was adding the lights to static objects in the vehicles_water.bgl rather than the simobjects MDL. Tested now and all working fine... Will go push the limits in the sim once I place all the lights :)
 
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