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Airport Lighting question

RoSPA_David

RoSPA_David

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This is probably going to make a lot of you scenery experts laugh here, but could anybody exlain how i can change the white lighting at an aiports apron, to that of an Amber colour.

Many thanks

David
 
Hi David,

What kind of lighting do you mean? And are you talking about the default scenery or an addon scenery you are working on?
 
Sorry should have mentioned. It is The add-on Durham Tees Valley. The lighting type is unknown by me, but it is from lamposts at the apron. Currently they provide flood lighting, and i was just wanting to change the colour it provides at ground level, however after viewing some screenies i think i would like to adopt less of a hard white light and go for a subtle amber glow around the base of the pole. At the moment, on approach i have found that from aprox 10 miles out the white lighting is too visible.

The airport scenery is available here
http://www.fs9world.co.uk/

Kind regards
David
 
If you showed us a screenshot of the lights it would be easier. ;)

It's always a problem to change a scenery. First you never know exactly, how the creator did it and second he sure had his reasons to do it the way he did.
But if you want to do it you'll have to take a look if the lighting is done with fx (that would be pretty easy to change) or with ground-textures (more difficult) or by using bgl-commands. In that case: forget it. ;)
 
How will i know how the lighting has been created?

I have attached a couple of night pics to aid your diagnosis

Many thanks
David
 

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OK, in that case they simply used night-textures. You'll find them in the texture-folder of the scenery. But it would be pretty tough to make them look more realistic. For me, I like them as they are. ;)
 
Thanks for your advise. Is there anyway of changing the lighting altogether. I really want a more amber/ orange colour. I can live with the fact that on approach the dominant light feature is at the apron.

David
 
You can't do this with one click. I assume the apron consists of a couple of textures. You'll have to rework them all of course.
 
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