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Rays from my lights?

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I've almost never used effects, my airport lights for FS2004 were always a 'photo' mapped to a plane. Since this doesn't work with FSX (it doesn't allow a separate day/night alpha) I have been redoing my lights as effects. This is fine for most, the 'fuzzy ball' lights work ok generally.

However I'd like to make something more impressive and larger, with rays.

Here's a pic of my old-style lights, showing the effect I'm trying to create.

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Place your intended "rays" as an image in a .bmp file, and code your .fx file to use that as the basis for rendering the effect.

Open the fx_2.bmp file and see how there are many examples of such "rays" that're used by all the lights in FSX. The area circled in red is what is used for the fx_landing.fx file (landing and taxi lights) for example.

The other, single image shows one we made for our custom "strobe lights" effect file.
 
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