I am trying to adjust the intensity of attached point lights for use in MSFS. These are way too bright. I tried adjusting in the spotlight area, but no change. I am really not understanding the parameters to use spotlight, hence I tried point light. Maybe I have to use spotlight but feel it may look weird as it is truly not a spotlight.
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Got another question to spotlights. I am trying to position the spotlight to go directly to the ground. I just played around with what looked right in MCX (capture 1). I saved the file as a "GLTF" and then loaded the file into MSFS and got this result. (capture3). It seems the cones are aimed back at the building at 45 degree. I load the GTLF file in MCX and all my values for rotation changed (not by me) as indicated in capture2. I am not sure why they keep changing from what I initially had in capture 1. I am using the latest version of MCX and MSFS. I don't get to design much these days with work and school. I do appreciate this program and all the assistance you have given me.
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Hi,
I had a look at the lights in MSFS. I have a test object that contains 4 lights on a stadium:
After running it through the package tool and loading the modellib.bgl file the lights look wrong indeed:
But when I look at the object in the sim they seem to be working fine:
But do I understand you correctly that you are seeing the lights wrong in the sim as well?
I had a look at the lights in MSFS. I have a test object that contains 4 lights on a stadium:
After running it through the package tool and loading the modellib.bgl file the lights look wrong indeed:
But when I look at the object in the sim they seem to be working fine:
But do I understand you correctly that you are seeing the lights wrong in the sim as well?
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Hi,
I did another test. I made a test object with different lights shining in different directions:
Loading this object in MSFS does show the expected light effects:
Once again when loading the modellib.bgl file the lights are shown in the wrong direction. So I think that is the only issue that is present, but the lights show in the correct directions in the sim.
I did another test. I made a test object with different lights shining in different directions:
Loading this object in MSFS does show the expected light effects:
Once again when loading the modellib.bgl file the lights are shown in the wrong direction. So I think that is the only issue that is present, but the lights show in the correct directions in the sim.