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FS2004 Autogen 3D Lights

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Hi all,

I've been working alongside a fellow known as Sascha to create some 3D autogen lights for FS2004. The original library of lights (one from a russian avsim download) worked, but was very very heavy on FPS (even my titan of a computer got brought down below 10 in places like NYC).

I offered to develop new lights that were performance friendly without losing any of the density or look of the original.

The lights DO work, I have a single flat facedown untextured polygon with an effect attached to it approximately 15 feet off the ground, and if I place these objects using Instant Scenery, they all work just fine.

So, I gave him the library, and the GUID's for the specific light color models, and he replaced everything in the default.xml file referring to the lights. However, for reasons I simply can't find out, the lights no longer show up if used as autogen.

I used MCX to convert the lights and create the library, also pulling the GUID's from MCX for use in the default.xml file.

Any help?
 
Was the autogen class setup correctly in the default.xml file? The class needs to reference the object guids.
 
Honestly, I'm not very familiar with Autogen, I was just the 3D modeller, however I did provide the GUID's for my objects as he required. Here is the default.xml we were trying.

The references to things such as 'lightblue' are the autogen lights.
 

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