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I was making a rwy light of sorts in FSDS. This was just a rudimentary stand with a bulb on it. (Two actually- one default, one to light up at night.) This didn't work at first getting biiiig error message. Finally I got rid of the little pole underneath so all I have are the bulbs themselves. (This is the beginning of an experiment).

Now it compiled with no errors, after the little stand was gone and I put the axis back where they belonged. I think the main problem was I messed around with the axis, so the stand (little pole might have been ok).

Now the light comes on at night, off during the day. No errors in the compilation.

On to CAT to set a trigger now that fsds compiled with no errors. I set a trigger to nav 2, freq 112.00 so in CAT it is NAV 2, 1200h and 1100h. and checked the arrow to the left of the box as per procedure.

continued on to compile. Compile ready! BUT noticed message- bglc error.

Here's the question... Why? :)

This is the goal- to have a set of rwy lights at night, turned off. Pilot approaches his private airport. When on final he tunes to Nav 2 112.00 and bingo.... the lights go on.

I feel like that guy in the commercial on a lawn tractor, mowing his lawn barely big enough for a push mower. :) Bob Thanx in advance. BTW- my rotate to user works now, thanx to Arno and Warmingham.
 
Hi,

CAT has to do with animations, but I don't think your problem has anything to do with an animated object. Is that correct?

I assume that you want this condition on the light only and not on the entire object? In that case the only solution I can think of would be to tweak the ASM code manually. With MDL Tweaker you can add such a condition as well, but it would affect your entire object.
 
Arno- Yes, it dawned on me finally, that this has nothing to do with animation., therefore I am using the wrong program. MDL Tweaker II would be good here, but it doesn't read asm files.

Since I know nothing about how to tweak an asm code or any other file by hand, how would I go about changing an asm code to mdl so MDL Tweaker II can 'see' it?

Yes, this is just a single light for now. Once I can figure out how to do this I would like to make numerous lights along a rwy, maybe centline lights as well, make one mdl for all of them, and and a trigger so the pilot can turn the lights on when on final, using nav 2 and a freq. Bob
 
Hi,

In MDL tweaker you can use the MDL file directly as it was exported from FSDS, no need to work with the ASM files there. So you might want to try that first.

If a comm frequency tweak applied like that is not what you want, tweaking the ASM code directly might be another alternative. But I guess it is easier to try MDL Tweaker first.
 
Hi Arno,

Like to trigger lights with nav. freq. but there is no animation involved.
How do I do that ? How do the tweak in the .asm-file looks like ?
For FS9... and is it possible in FSX ?

Or can I do a non-animation move and still use CAT ?
Is evenwel niet voor FSDS... maar werk met GMAX !!!
Euch... sorry... I wrote this in Dutch, hahaha. It means: As I work with GMAX and not with FSDS; be aware of that.

Greetz. José.
 
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Hi Jose,

The tweaks only work with Fs2004 MDL files, the FsX format does not allow such tweaks (at least I don't know how yet). Of course the Fs2004 MDL files still work in FsX.

If you only want to trigger the lights, you would have to place a IFIN1 command around the BGL_LIGHT commands in the ASM code with the correct conditions. I'll see if I can dig up a sample somewhere.
 
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