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Rotating Beacons

jonmkj

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Is there anyway I can place a functioning beacon without the base tower?

The reason I ask is because I am working on two airport projects that necessitate this. With one, the beacon goes on top of a nearby water tower. On the other, the beacon will go on top of a custom made tower (see attached picture).
 
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Which tool are you using to make the object? And for which version of FS?
 
I'm using FSDS v.3 to make the pole and the water tower, and it's being made for FSX.

I know how to place beacons, but they always have the tower attached to them
 
I'll bump this thread to the FSDS forum then :). I don't know FSDS good enough to help you on creating lights with it. So hopefully somebody else will...
 
Hi, In FSDSv3 there is the facility to make your own kind if Beacon.
1. In the Parts Property (F2) click the Browse button next to the name box and in the Catergory drop down menu choose lights - there are 5 different kinds of lights to choose from. Make your choice e.g. LIGHT_BEACON. The part will be renamed to whatever you choose.
2. In the Material Choice you must choose whatever colour you want the Beacon to be - i.e. you must add a colour. Don't forget to rename it! If you do not want a flashing Beacon then do not enter anything into the Specular Power Box. If you do then put in a number. e.g. 500 This will make the colour glow bright.
3. For a flashing Beacon you must choose from the Pre-processes box. Click add. For the Condition you must choose Beacon On. Then having clicked Ok you must click the Browse next to the Variable ID box. You have 4 choices becon2, 3, 4 & 5.
4. If you want to make a revolving beacon then you must use the animation sequences.
5. You could make the sphere or whatever you use so that the back part is dark - duplicate the sphere and cut a bit off?
I hope this will get you started.
 
well, i was personally wanting to use the default style beacon, I just wanted to set it on top of the tower i made
 
Well if you don't get anywhere just ask again. Using FSDSv3 I make my own light towers with a flashing beacon on top or use a revolving beacon light that I must say are better than the default ones you find in FS. Perhaps someone else will come up with a solution for you.
 
Well after a little bit of searching and fiddling, I think that this is what you want.
Take no notice that it is in the middle of the taxiway. The xml file attached can be altered in notepad or whatever to change the location/altitude etc. If you do a search of the forums for 'Airport Rotating Beacon' you will find where I got it from!
 
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SHIZZAM!!! :D That's it! I'll do some digging around to locate it.

The airport in question is the new Lee County Airport (identifier 0VG) in southwest southwest Virginia. The old one at pennington gap (KPTG) is now closed. You probably wont be seeing this one out on the market for a little while though because it is part of a massive project I am working on, to model all of the airports in southwest virginia. All but one.... KVJI... they don't like me, and I don't like them either. Unless I can get someone on the inside (a pilot based there) to help me out, it doesn't look like it will be getting the scenery treatment.

KPSK and a completely redone version of my first project KMKJ is underway.

Here is a screenshot of 0VG with my under construction scenery!
 
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I've placed default beacons on towers and other objects in my scenery using the format of the following XML code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<FSData version="9.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="bglcomp.xsd">
<SceneryObject
lat="-12.7848493264784"
lon="143.304919052313"
alt="4.17576"
pitch="0"
bank="0"
heading="0"
altitudeIsAgl="TRUE"
imageComplexity="NORMAL">
<Beacon type="CIVILIAN" baseType="AIRPORT" />
</SceneryObject>
</FSData>

I use an application like exclusion builder to get the exact lat/lon while FS is runing. The altitude is in meters and is the hieght of the object on which you wish to place it on.
 
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