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FS2004 (FS-X) shockwave 3-D lights auto installer?

mariopilot

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Hi There!
I'm not a programmer, but I'm an aircraft designer so I know something about this stuff.
The shockwave 3D lights install only on default aircraft. There's no apparently simple way to find where the landing lights are located in fact. There's one "hacker" way tough. Looking inside the MDL file the landing lights are stored somewhere. One way to understand where may be to create gmax (or FSDS) models containing only landing lights, and sortuing out where they are. Cross-checking their coordinates in gmax/FSDS and attempting to find them out in the MDL file. a crude way is to use an already existant tool such as MDLC or MDLDisas to dump the model and read inside the output text file.
Once you have the landing lights positiona, creating a program that adds landing light effects inside every aircraft.cfg should not be a hard task.
Any takers? Thank you!
 
The lights are in the Aircraft.cfg
Default 172
Code: 
[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit        
light.0 = 3,  -2.88, -18.11, 2.95, fx_shockwave_navred
light.1 = 3,  -2.88,  18.11, 2.95, fx_shockwave_navgre
light.2 = 2,  -3.15, -18.31, 2.95, fx_shockwave_strobe
light.3 = 2,  -3.15,  18.31, 2.95, fx_shockwave_strobe_2
light.4 = 1, -20.60,   0.00, 6.33, fx_shockwave_beacon
light.5 = 4,  -2.27,   0.00, 1.45, fx_shockwave_vclight
light.6 = 5, -1.45, -9.1, 2.6,  fx_shockwave_landing_light_small	// Shockwave light
light.7 = 6, -1.45, -9.8, 2.6,  fx_shockwave_landing_light_small	// Shockwave light
 
Well, I see no reason why a 3rd party, cannot create an AUTO-INSTALLER, that would edit installed aircarft, to add the Shockwave Lights in the correct place on the aircraft, by editing the aircraft.cfg file.

If the location of where the lights should be can be obtained from that aircarft.cfg file, or the Model file, COOL ...

The only limitation would be, that the Installer COULD NOT include any of the SHOCKWARE files, only their names, that it would edit into the aircraft.cfg file.

If the user did not have the Shockwave files, then the shockwave lights would not run. Maybe the Inataller should check to see if the Shockwave lights are installed, and warn the user, if not ( and suggest they purchase it -- I am sure the Shockwave people would like that !!)

Geoff_D
 
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