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Dynamic Lighting Help

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XM02A

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Hi guys,

I'm very new when it comes to any sort of scenery editing, I've recently come back to the world of flight sim thanks to being in lockdown where I live with too much time on my hands. I have been trying to add dynamic lights using ModelConverterX for Prepar3D V5

I have been trying to follow a similar process to this.


However, the terminal I use doesn't have the lightpoles in the model. I did, however, find the model of the light stand which is standalone. I assume this is distributed based on the ADE file? That's probably question #1! Anyhow, I tried to edit the lightpole and include a spot light. The effects file seems to successfully create but I end up having an error on the bgl side of things.

I've attached an image of the error codes which might help. I am trying to save it as a .bgl.
 

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Can't open the screenshot (it's blurred and doesn't load). That means the question is unclear and the errors are undefined.

XM02A said:
I assume this is distributed based on the ADE file?
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^^ My english is probably not great, but, by that, did you meant you assumed ADE would be able to place the light (poles or spots) by itself ? I highly doubt the program would be able to do that. What I think is, you must place both the light poles (3D object without light), and the spot/beams origin in a 3D modeling tool like GMax or 3DSMax or Blender one by one while creating your terminal. Then you compile the object (terminal with the attached poles/spots), and load it in ModelConverterX where you can fine tune the spots properties. I don't see where ADE gets involved in the process.
 
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