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Basic request on Apron lighting

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ALEXADE

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Hi to everybody,

I state that I am a beginner in ADE. I am editing a scenario and I am doing quite well.
I have not understood well from the manual how an apron can be illuminated at night.
Are be applied Through a normal GP and specific texture? if so, How?

Another problem is that I don't know how to create the horizontal i(sign) ndications (e.g. indication of the parking number etc., tawyway, etc.)

Thanks so much
 
One solution is to add apron edge lights by using the add apron edge lights button next to the add aprons button.

You can right click on the airport background and choose the option to add a taxi sign. Once it's added, you can edit it's properties.
 
‘Apron edge lights’ are the blue marker lights that delineate the edge of the apron. They don’t illuminate anything. Illuminating the ground (and anything on it) depends on which sim you’re working with. P3Dv4 allows ‘dynamic lighting‘, which is an effect that stipulates a source and intensity, and the sim creates illumination of everything within the stipulated range and spread. In earlier iterations of MSFS/P3D, illumination is a lightened texture that is visible at night, but which does not actually illuminate anything (hence aircraft look dark over an 'illuminated' apron).

The 'horizontal' signs that I think Alexade is referring to are custom-made Ground Polys, not the taxi signs - which are vertical.
 
Tim Collins said:
‘Apron edge lights’ are the blue marker lights that delineate the edge of the apron. They don’t illuminate anything. Illuminating the ground (and anything on it) depends on which sim you’re working with. P3Dv4 allows ‘dynamic lighting‘, which is an effect that stipulates a source and intensity, and the sim creates illumination of everything within the stipulated range and spread. In earlier iterations of MSFS/P3D, illumination is a lightened texture that is visible at night, but which does not actually illuminate anything (hence aircraft look dark over an 'illuminated' apron).

The 'horizontal' signs that I think Alexade is referring to are custom-made Ground Polys, not the taxi signs - which are vertical.
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Thank you so much. First, i solved qith the ground dign.
Second: i'm using PR3D V4.5 How can i put on Apron a texture for nightly illumination? How can define theat texture like only night texture?
Thank you so much
 
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