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How does one make a curved line such as a curved pole? make a street lamp. Nice, tall lmap post; now... make another part and bend it to where you would like so you can hang a lamp box off it? Also, I've seen these nice tear-drop shaped lamp housings and nicely curved pole parts. The lamp box I started to get kind of close. I took a sphere and chopped off the bottom so to speak then went from there, trying to shape it. I'm sure that's the long way around. :) Bob
 
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Warmingham. Thanx for the link. Will prove a great help. Two quickies. What is the difference between save or save as and package the project? Also- there's a command called split apart which I cannot activate. Is this for splitting apart joined parts? If so, once joined and I found I made a mistake, I'm sunk! :mad:

I learned really fast not to join my street lamp parts! Nothing showed up until night time! hahaha. Then I fussed with things and got my street lamp in day time, night, but dusk and dawn... no bulb! So I kept the day bulb, copy and pasted, made the new one dusk/dawn, repeated for noe for night. finally got the bulb to show up day, dusk/dawn, & night. I then did a light beam with 50 alpha. Wouldn't make the mdl. So I did your trick... saved that as part. Chose NEW, went and grabbed the part, saved as a project and added the beam in EZ scenery. Worked. Not too bad. I can always reshape the cone (beam) if I need it for other lamps. sure would like to know how to do the nice ground light as we see in esdg_ramp_lights! but then I guess many of us would like to know that! :rolleyes:

Again, thank you Warmingham for your wonderful help. My stuff is on Avsim under the author name of Robert Lacy. David (Opa) Marshall has guided me through many a trial and tribulation. Sometimes he thinks he created a monster when he sees some of my warped humor here and there. Bob
 
Hi Bob, the first part is easy. Save - this saves the current project. Save as - this is what I use all the time - It allows you to save the project under another name e.g. Project Name - FSDS-Building.fsc - Save as - FSDS-Building-Version1.fsc (I don't usually put the version bit in, just the number. I have a folder with lots of 'versions' - one day I must clean up and delete them. But it allows you to go back and start again where you left off - if you know what I mean.
I do not have any experience with the Split Command but if you look at the FSDS Help there are tutorials to read and work through that mention it - search for 'Split' not 'Split Part'. Is is not what you thought it was. Sometimes when you 'Join' parts it helps to keep everything together. e.g. Sometimes I have noticed that when I duplicate a part it doesn't always stay where it is and when you look at it in FS2004 it gets elevated. This is when I use the 'Save As' it saves you a lot of heartache, frustration etc.
I too would like to know how to make the fuzzy edges for lights - one day I will crack it. I would think that they may use multiple discs with different shades of the colour you are using. Or it is an effect created with a paint program. One of the many things I have to do apart from reading the forum and helping where I can!:)
 
Package project? Not sure what that is. I always save as then when done and ready to compile I package it first.

Followed the tutorial and made a nice curved pole. Made another lamp for practice. Can't get the bulb to glow at dusk or night. Thought I did everything like I did on the last lamp. I missed something or the rules keep changing. :) 3 bulbs. one day with gray; one bright with emissive for dusk/dawn; one the same for night. bglc_9 doesn't like that. I remove one and I think it works. gotta trick it somehow. Changed the dawn/'dusk and the night to light_land and light_taxi respectively, still nada. In part properties for conditions, add - I have day, danw/dusk, night. They all show up in a list. Should there be only one for each bulb? Or should I leave the whole list thee and hilite one and hit ok, then do the same for the other two? Bob
 
Hi Bob, Package Project - Copies the project file and textures to folder in which you save the project. It copies everything I would think including the texture locations. This means you can make another folder with all your finished projects. I don't use it myself.
Bulbs - you must make one for each condition. Always remember that where a condition is used then you must re-name the object to that. e.g. LIGHT_LAND_day-bulb - the last bit does not have to be in CAPITALS only the part that shows the condition name. And as you have found out there are various quirks/rules to compiling that you have to follow. For every diffferent condition you must make another object i.e. one for each.
 
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In caps- I'll remember that. The rusty lamp turned out ok. The pole is a bit skinny... I was afriad it was going to be too fat. Next time I'll just mdl the unfinished project and go see what it looks like before proceeding.

I see two lamps on one pole in some libraries. Can that be a real pain? I might have fun playing around with that idea. Bob
 
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