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P3D v5 fx_landing.fx

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Has anyone discovered how to get the fx_landing.fx to NOT flood the VC with light?

The only way I've found is to place them far forward of their actual physical locations so that the "light" is forward of the cockpit. The problem then is that there is always a small brightly lighted speck at the x,y,z coordinated of the .fx file. This is not really acceptable!
 
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n4gix said:
Has anyone discovered how to get the fx_landing.fx to NOT flood the VC with light?
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This is a known bug with all the aircraft lights in Prepar3D v5, and a most annoying one at that. I've tried several ways to combat this, including inserting light-facing polygons to "block" the light, or orientating the z-axis light direction out to the sides of the VC. Nothing has worked so far. I understand that a fairly major update to v5 is in the works that will hopefully sort this issue out, but I haven't heard of any release dates for it yet.
 
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The problem with rotating the z-axis is that the ground splash follows the z (green) axis. It looks silly with the 'lights' not illuminating the ground directly in the front of the aircraft... :censored:
 
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