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How to add a light object which doesn't reflect in nearby water - (half) SOLVED by myself

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I have added lighting (light_warm object) to my bridge which lights of the deck of my bridge nicely however every light object (there are many as the bridge is 300 meters long) results in reflections on the water which don't look good IMHO.
I checked Sydney Harbour Bridge (part of WU7) which shows lighting but no reflections in the water.
I cannot see any parameters to control this.
Is it possible to prevent reflections of lighting objects? I realise that the height (elevation) of a light can affect this but it also restricts the spread of the light which would requite heaps more light objects.
 
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An example of reflections from lights - I just thought that the reflections doesn't look realistic

I thought that back in the days of FSX it was possible to add 'highway' lights to illuminate a road/highway surface which was different to a 'spotlight'?

windang_bridge_lights.jpg
 
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Also nearby lighting along the edges of the lake (from the MSFS stock scenery) does not show reflections so surely there is a method to illuminate an area without gettin g reflections.

windang_bridge_lighting_nearby.jpg
 
After trying adding many light 'point' to my Blender model and finding that not only were the reflections still present AND the light also displayed below the bridge (totally unrealistic) I decided to look through every scenery object which has 'light' in its name and found EDVK-StreetLightHalf which not only illuminates the deck of my bridge nicely AND it appears to only show reflections from one 'side' of the light so at least I will now only have half the reflections (there are lights on each side of the bridge offset from other side) and it also 'shines' on the bridge deck in a half circle which is very realistic as to how a street light mounted on the edge of a bridge looks IMHO. All I need to have now is that EDVK lights are not from stock MSFS scenery objects.

Maybe no one else has used this so there's a tip!
 
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DRAT. Just noticed the street light also 'draws' an image of a light pole and so needs to be at 'ground level' (otherwise it will 'float' in the air) which reduces the spread of the light too much. Back to the drawing board as they say.
 
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