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FSX Effects Issue

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Is there a 'bug' in FSX that prevents the HOD (Hour Of Day) parameter from working with special effects? I can get the effects to work normally, but when I set the Parameter for the Hour Of Day I want them to appear, they never do, for example, if I set a lighting effect for say 6:00pm to 1:00am (that would be HOD=18,01) it should show at 6pm and continue until 1am, but the effect never turns on. If I don't set a time parameter and use the effect normally, it works fine. Is this a bug just like the same bug that I found out about that prevents the DAY/NIGHT parameter from working or the DUSK/DAWN parameter from working. The HOD seems to work randomly, but most of the time it don't, and does the HOD use the location of the aircraft or does it use the time of the system?
 
Post or link to the scenery in question, or you will have to sort this out by doing the searching, reading and testing (like the rest of the folks at FSDEV do).

Anything else that involves the participation of FSDEV forum members, IMHO, for your query, may be too time consuming and fundamentally speculative.


https://www.google.com/search?q=site:+www.fsdeveloper.com+FSX+Effect+light+night+HOD+problem&sca_esv=97954111f5c3aa31&ei=rC_FabWeGraQp84P9O2h0QU&biw=1088&bih=504&ved=0ahUKEwi1pMOV0b2TAxU2yMkDHfR2KFoQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=site:+www.fsdeveloper.com+FSX+Effect+light+night+HOD+problem&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiPHNpdGU6IHd3dy5mc2RldmVsb3Blci5jb20gRlNYIEVmZmVjdCBsaWdodCBuaWdodCBIT0QgcHJvYmxlbTIFEAAY7wUyBRAAGO8FMgUQABjvBTIFEAAY7wVIy9EBUIYKWJPHAXACeACQAQCYAcMBoAHmDaoBBDAuMTO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAg-gAq8QwgIIEAAY7wUYsAPCAgsQABiABBiiBBiwA8ICCxAAGIkFGKIEGLADwgIIEAAYgAQYogTCAggQABiJBRiiBJgDAIgGAZAGBZIHBjIuMTIuMaAHmyiyBwYwLjEyLjG4B4oQwgcGMy0xNC4xyAfaAYAIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp


GaryGB
 
That's all I needed was some links to help, I had seen a disscussion on here before about this but couldn't find it. Thanks.
 
I looked it over, and thanks, that answers the question. It really is a FSX BUG. I'll just live with it. Most of the effects are lighting effects and I can just remove the param and let them stay on. the sound effects like birds and crickets is a different story, but I found that setting them to work at RANDOM and adding the Hour Of Day (HOD) parameter seems to work, they just only work at random, but I can live with that. It's a 'bug' in FSX that never got fixed in developement, you just have to make your own 'work-arrounds' for it.
 
FYI: It would IMHO, be most appropriate to instead have posted this inquiry in the topic-specific forum available here: :pushpin:

https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/categories/special-effects.118/


Posting nearly every inquiry in the General Chat forum 'may' abuse forum intent, if seeking high visibility to quickly elicit replies.


We all 'take our lumps' at FSDEV if we have queries on topics that are highly specialized, but are posted in lower traffic sub-forums.


Some FSDEV forum participants repeatedly seek replies there, ("fishing" ?) in lieu of performing due diligence of search / self study.

In rare cases, AFAIK, forum mods may tolerate additional double-posts, or posting outside a special topic-specific forum.

But IIUC, mods expect that we always list the version of FS we are inquiring about , and post queries first in a proper sub-forum. :pushpin:

GaryGB
 
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Tomt478 said:
I looked it over, and thanks, that answers the question. It really is a FSX BUG. I'll just live with it. Most of the effects are lighting effects and I can just remove the param and let them stay on. the sound effects like birds and crickets is a different story, but I found that setting them to work at RANDOM and adding the Hour Of Day (HOD) parameter seems to work, they just only work at random, but I can live with that. It's a 'bug' in FSX that never got fixed in development, you just have to make your own 'work-arounds' for it.
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The work-around is simply to place the Effect twice, as explained in several of the threads,

Yep, it is an inconvenience; we do call it a bug, but AFAIK, during FSX development, ACES probably left it un-fixed for a reason.

Study the examples of placing it twice, and you should be able to get it to work; but RANDOM can be desirable sometimes as well.

GaryGB
 
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