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Ground flood light 3D ?

That was a good tip regarding the controller file, Georg. So for one point of light which should be visible dusk, night and dawn both for starting at and for flying into the airport one needs

1 effect for night
1 effect for dusk / dawn
1 effect controller for night
1 effect controller for dusk / dawn

Pretty workload, but the result is very nice indeed.

Cheers,
Martin

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I think, you can reduce to

1 controller for night
1 controller for dusk/dawn
1 effect file

you call the same effect file with both controllers.
 
Georg,

After having tested that intensinvely I think the right approach is to call the effect with two controller files (and don't attach the effect directly at all)

  • One calling the effect at night
  • One calling the effect at dusk / dawn

That way I always see the lights on at the right time, no matter if I am flying in or starting at the airport, and I don't see that the effects add to each other in terms of intensity.
 
Reading your post again, I realize that now :)

I understood you wrong and thought your advise was to place two controller and one effect. Foreign languages can be tricky....

Well, now I learned the hard way which I accept happily since it had some other positive side effects.

Anything you can tell me to my other open question here in the effects forum?

Cheers and happy Easter,
Martin
 
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