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Hi,

Does anyone know the range that an effect gets unloaded from memory?

I'm trying to create an apron lightpool and am placing 2 instances of the effect, the first directly to allow the effect to show if you start at the airfield and the second via a controller to make the effect show as you approach it. However if I fly away from the effect and then back again both effects show (the first one doesn't disappear and the second activates as I start to get closer).

If I knew the range of an effect I could set my controller to use the same range and so (hopefully) only ever get one effect showing.

If my logic is wrong here please let me know as these effects are really starting to frustrate me!!!

Cheers

Phil

P.S. Sorry forgot to mention this is using FSX.
 
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Hi Phil,

that's a good question. I've never been able to use the Radius= parameter to limit the visual range of an effect and assume it's inoperative.

A possible work-around may be the use of mip-maps. I used it the other way around (enhancing brightness of lower mip maps to increase long-range visibility) so it should work the other way too, that is darkening lower mip maps to have the effect (texture) fade or drop out. The SDK Imagetool.exe allows one to extract mipmaps from mipped textures and re-assemble them after editing.

Cheers, Holger
 
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