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No lights visible in P3D

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flightpumpkin

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Hello,

I have made a BGL lib with some ligths and placed them on an airport. All I see now are the base models but no lights (not at night not at day time). I am usin AFLT 1.0.03 on P3D v2.2.

In Scenery folder 2 files have been created:
lib_AF_Lights_Bases_FSX (for P3Dv2).bgl
lib_AF_Lights_Lights.bgl

Textures have been copied correctly.

When opening the lib_AF_Lights_Bases_FSX (for P3Dv2).bgl in MCX I see the base models and the attach point.

In FSX the lights are visible but only at night and not during daytime or in foggy weather (what I would need). Another thing in FSX is that the light has a distance offset to the base model (around 50 cm).

What am I doing wrong? Is there anything else to do beside placing the model on the airport (used ADE)?

Thanks for help
Joerg
 
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gadgets

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What am I doing wrong?
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Nothing@! At this time, P3Dv2 does not support BGL_LIGHTs, which provide the illumination for AFLT. Please refer to the second paragraph in the user manual.

Re the offset in FSX, I would need to see your AFLT library folder to comment. If you want the lights to be visible in daytime, you must program pilot-controlled lighting. See pages 6-7 of the user manual.

Don
 
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flightpumpkin

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Thanks Don,

I hoped that LM has fixed the BGL_Lights with v2.2 but...
So I need to find another solution to make Pilot controlled lights. Might be hard to find as there are so many issues with lights in P3D.

Joerg
 
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