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MCX Can we save parameters in Attached Object Editor?

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I've been reseaching the light to find the best option(s) for my project. A test pad (100x100 m.) was made for the purpose. The 3D of the light pole (20 m. height) was placed at he half red dot. Then the ground polygon was processed with GPW, and the pole was processed with Convert and Place Object Wizard.

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I added spot lights to each one of my 5 light poles, with different light colors, with differnt rotation(s), and other parameters.

As long as I still have this procedures active in the MCX, I can still make changes to the parameters to see the difference in the P3Dv5.

But when I closed MCX, I had to redo all the the steps (adding spot lights, changing paramers). It's ok for a small airport, but imagine if I have 100 light poles and they are different, it will be a huge work load.

Can we save these setting parameters so we can always load them to make small adjustments?

Thank you.

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Hi,

If you import the BGL/MDL file back into MCX you can tune the settings. Make sure to have the option that converts effects into lights set to true.
 
I tried with the "Replace effects by lights" set to True, compiled to .BGL. I loaded it back to MCX, and opened Attached Object Editor, and could only change the position and rotation of each light.

Other parameters for each light were not shown. Did I miss any step(s)?

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They are still imported as effect and not as light.

Did you modify the default FX name that MCX uses? You will only get all parameter back when you are using the default filenames that MCX assigns.
 
Ah! That's why. I just wanted to get the names organized, so I changed the FX filenames to start with my airport ICAO name.

I tried it again, and this time I could see all parameters.

Thanks so much!

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