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Mismatched threshold lights

jonmkj

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Photo says it all. I'm getting this in the project I'm working on, and have seen it elsewhere in the sim, including in quality payware scenery. Some of the threshold lights are on posts, some are in-pavement type. In this case they need to be on posts, but I would love a fix!!!


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I gave up trying to figure this out some time ago and have been using light presets to make my own threshold lights. The top set (see attached) are for above ground lights and the bottom set is for embedded lights (called TIPS by the SDK). Use the LightRow object. I use 3 meter spacing between lights and set heading to the true heading of the runway (at the end of threshold lights ... I use Little NavMap to get the heading). Lights will show green from the approaching end (towards the runway) and red lights from the runway looking out. Hope this helps.
 

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The threshold light is determined based on the background. Pavement gets flush lights, otherwise it is a stalk. If you put the line right on the edge of the transition between pavement and non pavement, you'll get mixed results, it's really that simple. If you have to tweak your pavement color, or your terrain color to make the lights conform, you can do so.
 
You need to experiment with threshold offset distances, it will make it clearer.
 
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