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Light Presets?

jonmkj

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Trying to create some custom runway lighting using light presets and light rows.
Some of the lights need to be different colors depending on which way you look at them from (such as the runway end lights)

The "direction" parameters make NO sense to me. I cannot get a 2nd light to shine in the opposite direction from the first, no matter what variables I enter.. I do not understand how an XYZ system can be used to determine light direction. What do these values do? I'm thinking the feature may be broken somehow. What am I missing?

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From my experience, the first variable you want set to either 1 or -1. The default position of 0 sets the light pointing straight up. 1 or -1 brings it facing forward or back. The middle variable is worthless. the 3rd variable sets the angle around the Y axis (rotation). This should be in degrees. Make sure the two lights (if you are using 2) are set 180 from each other. After that the “has heading” property will matter too.
 
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