Issue with B737-800 landing lights

[AACvirtual]

Hi Arno and thanks for all your help in the past. I have an issue with landing lights for the default B737-800. In essence I have been working on night improvements for the default B737 and so I have added two _LM textures using MCX in order to highlight the cockpit. It works well but when I save the revised model, the "attached object editor" is also updated meaning that the landing and taxi lights are permanently on because the effect parameters are set to zero [0]. I do not want to change the default effect parameters so is there a way to "Save only changes"? If I delete these lights, I lose the taxi and landing light ground light cone which is taken from a texture file. Is there a way to put the landing light cone, rather than just the light, into the Aircraft/[Lights] section? Many thanks, Charlie.

 

[tgibson]

Hi,

No, you cannot add the cone to the cfg file.

 

[arno]

Hi,

Let me check if it's a bug that the parameters are not saved correctly. Because that seems to be the problem.

There is no way to only save certain changes, every save overwrites the entire model.

 

[AACvirtual]

Thanks Arno and Tom. The save issue would seem to be correct as you can only select day, dusk, night and dawn as on or off [0 and 1] in the add effects in the attached object editor. The default seems to be a single 0 which is effect always on. I tried putting no values in there, but the taxi and landing light effects did not work.

Tom, the problem seems to be one of alignment of the effect. I can get the effect and bmp files to work but the alignment issue is something that I cannot fathom. Maybe there is an Xml code for align effect to aircraft heading? The effect is aligned when the light [on an AI aircraft] is turned on:

 

[AACvirtual]

Arno, I downloaded the latest release for MCX. Not sure if you tweaked it for the parameters, but I still get the lights [taxi and landing] permanently on after adding the cockpit _LM textures. I think that this was a deliberate move by Aces!! Charlie.

This is the default B737-800 parked at a gate with the new night textures, with taxi and landing lights permanently on:

 

[arno]

I haven't had the time yet to look at this issue, so no changes in ModelConverterX to fix it yet.

 

[AACvirtual]

Thanks Arno - no hurry this end, you have more important stuff to do!! Charlie.

 

[arno]

Yeah, I guess you already understood that this server move of the website kept me busy a bit in the last days (and probably also in the next few).

 

[AACvirtual]

Good luck - seems to be going well.

 

[arno]

Hi,

I have found the issue. The visibility condition of the attached effects was indeed lost. If you grab the new development release tomorrow it will be OK.