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FSXA effects oddity

jyarddog

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Here's what I see:

Made a house with smoke coming out of chimney. Made with FSDS, placed with IS3.
Made effect with FSDS small taxi light with attached light night only.

Smoke looks to be offset from chimney to the left a few feet.
Light looks to be offset from my taxi light object a foot or two as well.... to the left.

Before we start blaming IS3 and FSDS I placed these objects into a totally different scenery....
result?............... Perfect!!!!

I have checked for excludes etc. None except for two far away from these objects. removed them just in case.... no difference.

Most interesting? What else might I check for? Bob
 
I am going to guess that the problem scenery has FS9 .bgls and the test scenery doesn't.
 
=rk= done that before and no problem but decent guess. I forgot to post my results here but found the problem.

Actually I was told that the effects are placed and shown correctly but the object they are attached to are to the right of them!

This tends to occur with airports at higher elevations (at what point this tarts to happen I don't know). My airport is at 2100 ft. Evidently this is a known glitch with FSX. The fix is this-

In MCX go to options, open up 'exporter settings' , scroll down to find 'drawcall batching' (not the one that has LOD in it, just the first one you come to) , change this from true to false.

Now export your model and add it back into your library (or add redo the mdl in your ADE, place again and recompile.)

I've done this and the problem is solved. Odd! huh?! ;) Bob
 
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