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Onesided lights off during day time?

M

mrauh

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Hi all,

I'm trying to create onesided lights for my runways that are off during the day. I want to place them using EZScenery. This one is meant to be visible only if you approach with a heading of 231. The "onesidedness" works ok but it's visible at all times of the day. Interesting enough, when I first place it it is indeed off during the day but when I reload FS it stays on all the time.

Anyway, here is my asm-code. I'd really appreciate your help.

Code: 
  db  'R','I','F','F'				; RIFF file identifier
    dd  bgl_data_end - $ - 4		    ; size of RIFF data
    db  'M','D','L','9'				; file identifire (FS9 model)

    db  'M','D','L','H'
    dd  visual_model_header_end - $ - 4
    dd  visual_model_header_end - $ - 4
    dd  0
    dd  0
    dd  2
    dd  0
    dd  0
    dd  156
    db  'F','S','8','0'
    dd  2304
visual_model_header_end  label dword

    db  'I','S','F','T'   
    dd  ver_end - $ - 4  
    db  "BGLC_9",0
ver_end label word       

bounding_box_riff_start	label	word
    db  'B','B','O','X'   
    dd  bounding_box_riff_end - $ - 4
    real4  -100.000, -100.000, -100.000  
    real4  100.000, 100.000, 100.000  
bounding_box_riff_end label word       


model_outside    label    BGLCODE
model_shadow label BGLCODE
model_inside  label    BGLCODE
exterior_riff_start_0 label BGLCODE
    db  'E','X','T','E'   
    dd  exterior_riff_end_0 - $ - 4
LOD_0L    label    BGLCODE

LIGHT_NAV_beta_top label BGLCODE

bgl_riff_start_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE
    db	'B','G','L',' '
    dd	bgl_riff_end_LIGHT_NAV_beta - $ - 4
LOD_0_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE

IFIN1 nolights, 028Ch, 2, 4

SEPARATION_PLANE wrong_direction, 20620, 0, 25463, 32767

; Alpha
LIGHT_NAV_beta_Alpha label BGLCODE
    BGL_CALL_32 LIGHT_NAV_beta_MasterScale_1        ; Node 1 - MasterScale
    BGL_END
    BGL_RETURN

LIGHT_NAV_beta_MasterScale_1 label BGLCODE

    BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0FFB60000h, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000 ; Color is AB AB AB (rgb)
    BGL_RETURN

wrong_direction label word

bgl_riff_end_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE
exterior_riff_end_0	label	BGLCODE


shadow_riff_start_0 label BGLCODE
  db 'S','H','A','D' 
  dd shadow_riff_end_0 - $ - 4
SHADOW_0L label BGLCODE

Kill_Shadow_top label BGLCODE
bgl_riff_start_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
  db 'B','G','L',' '
  dd bgl_riff_end_Kill_Shadow - $ - 4

LOD_0_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
  BGL_END
  BGL_RETURN

bgl_riff_end_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
shadow_riff_end_0 label BGLCODE

nolights label word

bgl_data_end label     BGLCODE

Thanks,

Matthias
 
Hi Matthias,

Let me say I am a little surprised this code did not crash FS completely :D. You have placed some of the destinations labels outside of the RIFF section you did the check in. This is not how it should work. I would try the code like this:

Code: 
db  'R','I','F','F'				; RIFF file identifier
    dd  bgl_data_end - $ - 4		    ; size of RIFF data
    db  'M','D','L','9'				; file identifire (FS9 model)

    db  'M','D','L','H'
    dd  visual_model_header_end - $ - 4
    dd  visual_model_header_end - $ - 4
    dd  0
    dd  0
    dd  2
    dd  0
    dd  0
    dd  156
    db  'F','S','8','0'
    dd  2304
visual_model_header_end  label dword

    db  'I','S','F','T'   
    dd  ver_end - $ - 4  
    db  "BGLC_9",0
ver_end label word       

bounding_box_riff_start	label	word
    db  'B','B','O','X'   
    dd  bounding_box_riff_end - $ - 4
    real4  -100.000, -100.000, -100.000  
    real4  100.000, 100.000, 100.000  
bounding_box_riff_end label word       


model_outside    label    BGLCODE
model_shadow label BGLCODE
model_inside  label    BGLCODE
exterior_riff_start_0 label BGLCODE
    db  'E','X','T','E'   
    dd  exterior_riff_end_0 - $ - 4
LOD_0L    label    BGLCODE

LIGHT_NAV_beta_top label BGLCODE

bgl_riff_start_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE
    db	'B','G','L',' '
    dd	bgl_riff_end_LIGHT_NAV_beta - $ - 4
LOD_0_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE

IFIN1 nolights, 028Ch, 2, 4

SEPARATION_PLANE wrong_direction, 20620, 0, 25463, 32767

    BGL_LIGHT LIGHT_NAV, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0FFB60000h, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000 ; Color is AB AB AB (rgb)

    wrong_direction label word
    nolights label word
    BGL_END
    BGL_RETURN

bgl_riff_end_LIGHT_NAV_beta	label	BGLCODE
exterior_riff_end_0	label	BGLCODE


shadow_riff_start_0 label BGLCODE
  db 'S','H','A','D' 
  dd shadow_riff_end_0 - $ - 4
SHADOW_0L label BGLCODE

Kill_Shadow_top label BGLCODE
bgl_riff_start_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
  db 'B','G','L',' '
  dd bgl_riff_end_Kill_Shadow - $ - 4

LOD_0_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
  BGL_END
  BGL_RETURN

bgl_riff_end_Kill_Shadow label BGLCODE
shadow_riff_end_0 label BGLCODE

bgl_data_end label     BGLCODE
 
Thanks so much, Arno! Now it works.

I wish someone could give me an "asm-tweaking for dummies" sort of introduction as I only copy and paste what I found on this site not really knowing what I'm doing. I.e. so far I wasn't aware of a "riff-section".

Once again thank you,

Matthias
 
Hi Matthias,

Glad to hear it worked.

I have thought about making a ASM tweaking tutorial, but I never really found the time for it. Now that ASM tweaking is no longer of using when using the FsX tools I am not sure if it would still be worth to put much time in it.

But if course forums like this should be able to help others :).
 
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