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Post by frankr on Apr 8, 2006 13:30:14 GMT -5
Somewhere in my repainting attempts of Bill Lyons' Stinson the left (red) nav light has disappeared. When I use Bill's original aircraft the light is there, but when I use Dale DeLuca's repaints - no light. Is there a way to get it back? I'm using FSRepaint.
These are for my own edifcation (and education).
Thanks.
Frank
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Post by -E on Apr 8, 2006 19:01:30 GMT -5
I don't "do" civilian aircraft, so my guess/info will be generic... *grin*
There are three ways to get a nav light... A) it's hard coded in the model to illuminate, B) it's an effect listed in the aircraft.cfg's [lights] section, C) it's just painted on & doesn't illuminate.
Generically speaking, a repaint and/or a repaint program shouldn't be able to kill a light in the case of A or B above (while we all know a file-save glitch can happen).
Also note that in the case of A above, you will not get the nav lights in a stock FSGW3 installation, as the FSGW3 installation pretty much nukes the innards of a file (halo.bmp) that most hard-coded nav lights need to illuminate.
Do the two repaints in question use the same model and/or aircraft.cfg? Assuming you mean illumination, even though a painted-on light would be closer to your question, my guess would be your problem lies in the aircraft.cfg [lights] section.
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Post by frankr on Apr 8, 2006 21:41:21 GMT -5
The light illuminates, I have just found out. But there is no "physical" light on the wing. Nor is there a white (rudder) light I don't think Bill incorporated one. I don't know.
The two repaints do use the same model and aircraft cfg.
Anyhoo, I can live with it the way it is.
Many thanks for your answer.
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Post by windrunner on Apr 9, 2006 4:03:41 GMT -5
As far as I can guess: the "physical" red nav is painted somewhere. You may want to take a look at the original Bill Lyon's bitmaps to find where it is and paint it in your version.
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Post by Dave3cu on Apr 9, 2006 8:49:00 GMT -5
Not really. Those repaints that are missing the nav light use .mod file from the ..\model.1\ folder. (model=1 in aircraft.cfg file)
It appears this was done to accommodate a different texture set, and is probably missing the nav light.
Dave
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Post by frankr on Apr 9, 2006 16:40:35 GMT -5
Many thanks for your answers and help. I'll see what this old retired cameraman can do by slowly working through the problem. I can live without the physical light but I would need the burning light for dusk and night time flying, which works.
Thanks again.
Frank
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Post by Admin on Apr 9, 2006 20:10:47 GMT -5
This is a bit complicated and I'm not equipped to tackle it, but originally Bill modeled the nav lights as part of the model. Later the model was modified to accomodate a 2 sided (non-mirrored) texture and as far as I can tell the nav light was not modeled in the new position. You can use a light effects line from another plane and by trial & error position it in the proper place.
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Post by jimslost on Apr 9, 2006 23:26:41 GMT -5
I have also noticed that a number of aircraft do not have a white light on the aft edge of the rudder, and I finally found out why when I found a plane that did - the light doesn't move with the rudder! I guess that's why almost all a/c with tail position lights have them at the top of the rudder/vertical stab post.
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Post by frankr on Apr 12, 2006 17:12:01 GMT -5
As I said, I'm slowly working on the problem. So far I found that Bill had "turned off ' the rudder light in the aircraft/cfg. By turning it on it was placed at the tail wheel position. By trial and error I was able to place it on the rear of the rudder where it should be. However, it does not turn with the rudder. Now I'm OK with that.
However, now I get all three lights in FSGW3 only. More sleuthing to do.
Stay tuned.
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