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Hi,
Does anyone have any bright ideas on how to have a working and ideally movable spotlight in a VC?
First thoughts would be to make use of an effect like fx_landing or maybe a physical light cone.
Anyone tried this before and got it looking respectable?
Something like this type of thing:
P-51grimes2.jpg


Thanks!
 
FSX:
I've never toyed with this, but you *might* be able to model an "illuminate everything" light cone with the material used by Lotus' landing lights (forum search!).
Granted, it won't look natural at all, but it'd be better than nothing.

Alternatively, try to attach a .fx file to the lamp, although I'm not sure whether a geometry-illuminating .fx file can be set to "spot" mode (it's "omni" by default).


(Constrained) movement might also be possible by capturing mouse movement in the X-Y-plane and using, say, the mousewheel to adjust the lamp along the Z-axis.
Couple it with some skinned mesh for the power supply cable and you should get what you want.
Take a look at some code for a draggable switch to get an idea of what I mean.
 
Create the normal bulb by textures and animation.
Then create a small box then tag a light effect to it and then link it to your animation.
I have animated landing light which is a different method but never animated in the VC. So i am not totally sure you can make a tagged effect move!o_O
 
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