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hi, i was wondering if there were any tutorials on how to create my own or place some PAPI lights in my new airport, any way i can do that? thank you in advance 
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how to create PAPi approach lights
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Depends on what exactly you want to do:
1. If you are OK about keeping the default PAPI light effects and just want physical lamps it is enough to simply model them and place them exactly where the PAPI light effects are. Placement tools with in-sim-realtime preview (Instant Scenery, Whisplacer, simDirector) might come in handy for this.
2. If you want custom effects, you might want to look at this section of the SODE documentation: http://sode.12bpilot.ch/?document=the-xml-definition-file/conditionalvisibility-separation-plane (there are sample PAPI lights in the SODE examples so have a look at those too) This one is a bit more complicated to learn though.
2a. There are approaches of modeling a separation face and hiding the lights behind it using certain alpha test levels. Note that this approach also affects the visibility of nearby transparent objects, such as 3D grass or runway lights.
1. If you are OK about keeping the default PAPI light effects and just want physical lamps it is enough to simply model them and place them exactly where the PAPI light effects are. Placement tools with in-sim-realtime preview (Instant Scenery, Whisplacer, simDirector) might come in handy for this.
2. If you want custom effects, you might want to look at this section of the SODE documentation: http://sode.12bpilot.ch/?document=the-xml-definition-file/conditionalvisibility-separation-plane (there are sample PAPI lights in the SODE examples so have a look at those too) This one is a bit more complicated to learn though.
2a. There are approaches of modeling a separation face and hiding the lights behind it using certain alpha test levels. Note that this approach also affects the visibility of nearby transparent objects, such as 3D grass or runway lights.
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Ok so, i added the PAPI lights i wanted, and they work great except... this.
they appear under the scenery layer, any way i can bring them up a little?
they appear under the scenery layer, any way i can bring them up a little?
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I see. You have a ground polygon there. There's a bug in the engine causing this.
You may need to go for the second option I posted above.
You may need to go for the second option I posted above.
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i found the model, just need to know how to add the lights to it, i've never done coding before so i'm completely lost when it comes to adding lights with codes...
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Have a look at the sample xml file provided. Basically you can just copy that and change the placement entries.
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can anyone send me already made bgl papi-4 lights on the forum that i can just load into MCX and place, cause i use fs2004 and i'm completely lost with it...
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So you are using FS2004? That part was missing until now.
SODE does not support FS2004, so it must be done this way:
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=PAPI_creation_(ASM_tweak)
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i'll give it a try, i got the SODE PAPI-4 model to work on fs2004 but without the lights, i guess i'll try making the lights with that model as
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as long as you want to publish your work keep in mind the models are not yours.
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Of course, credit will always be given to those who made the models
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If that's enough. Usually you will need a permission in the first place and quite often you won't be allowed to use someone else's work.
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i deleted the SODE models and used AFLT tools, but i have one small issue, the PAPI-4 lights are facing the correct way on runway 25, but when i try and place others on runway 7 they're always facing backwards (visible from the terminal and not from final approach), how can i fix that?