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P3D v4 Showing/Hiding Objects for Pilot-Controlled Lighting

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I'm in the midst of creating a PCL setup for one of my airports, and I'm a bit confused. Is it possible to trigger the hiding of one object (the "off" state MDL of the runway lights) when another (the "on" state of same) is triggered? If you can only add to a scene using the RadioTX trigger visibility command, that's going to be tricky to work with.
 
I assume your lights have a lit bulb texture?

Hopefully Jeff can help you out here.
 
If I understand correctly, you want to have a off-state MDL loaded per default and an on-state MDL once the PCL condition is met? And when the countdown timer elapses, you want to revert back to the off-state MDL?

If that's the case, then you can define a list of models, with the first one being the off-state default MDL, which will be always loaded when no other "active" state is triggered.

Example code:
Code: 
<SimObject Name="RWY Lighting">
  <Placement Lat="47.181663" Lon="7.417267" Alt="0.0#AGL" Hdg="065.73"/>
  <Model SimTitle="12bPilot_SODE_Runway_Lights_OFF">
    <TriggerableVisibility Input="RadioTX" Activation="0;120.900" TimeParam="5;1" Action="turn on,turn off" VisibleOnLoad="Yes"/>          
  </Model>
  <Model SimTitle="12bPilot_SODE_Runway_Lights_HIRL">
    <TriggerableVisibility Input="RadioTX" Activation="5;120.900" TimeParam="5;1" Action="turn on,turn off" VisibleOnLoad="No"/>
  </Model>
</SimObject>

Note that the "fallback" MDL has the "VisibleOnLoad" attribute set to "Yes". Also, the "Activation" attribute is ignored in this case, I just set it to "0;120.900".

With this mechanism, you could even do multiple intensities as well, the model list would then be for example:
  • OFF (Activation="0;120.900" VisibleOnLoad="Yes")
  • Low (Activation="3;120.900" VisibleOnLoad="No")
  • Med (Activation="5;120.900" VisibleOnLoad="No")
  • High (Activation="7;120.900" VisibleOnLoad="No")
 
Jeffrey Stähli said:
If I understand correctly, you want to have a off-state MDL loaded per default and an on-state MDL once the PCL condition is met? And when the countdown timer elapses, you want to revert back to the off-state MDL?
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That's cool! Can you add the example to the documentation?
 
Thanks, Jeffrey. I thought that was how it was supposed to work, but for some reason when I was testing yesterday I couldn't get the models to disappear on the trigger. Naturally, now that I've asked it's working fine. ;-)
 
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