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P3D v5 Ramp lights not working at arrival airport but work fine at departing airport

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dave2019

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Hi. I've added ramp lights from Jim Dhaenens "fsx_lts" library to a number of airports in P3Dv5. When departing from an airport with these lights they work fine. However, when doing a flight and landing at an airport with these lights, they don't work.

Can anyone explain this behavior?

Thanks a lot.

Dave
 
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Well, after doing a lot more searching in this forum I finally found a solution.

I made an effect controller file for each of the 2 effects, fx_landing and fx_beaconwhi, used for the ramp light models. I then attached these controller files instead of the effect files to the light models and, oiula!, the lights now work at the arrival airports.

Another solution I found describing changing the particle type to 25 instead of 19 or 28 did not work for this, however, it did fix the issue where the lights disappear at certain viewing angles.

Dave
 
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I've found that even controller files can be a pain sometimes... I ended up just using SODE to place them. On the up side, it's really quite easy to place a whole bunch, I can do an International airport in about 20 minutes. I was just fed up with the P3D system, I've started swapping out the dynamic lighting at addon airports the same way, disabling the lights that come with it and making my own.
 
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dave2019 said:
Another solution I found describing changing the particle type to 25 instead of 19
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In FS2004 this was a solution for arriving user aicraft without a controller fx

Edit: I did not use attached effects, but placed the effects in ADE
 
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Adding a controller can sometimes help, but the issue is the amount of dynamic lights P3D can handle. You will eventually run out of coverage, specially if you visit large airports with more dynamic lights and AI traffic that also have dynamic lights.
 
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pinkjr said:
Adding a controller can sometimes help, but the issue is the amount of dynamic lights P3D can handle. You will eventually run out of coverage, specially if you visit large airports with more dynamic lights and AI traffic that also have dynamic lights.
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Is there a hard-set limit to the maximum lights it will spawn? I've set my Max lights in the p3d config to a stupid amount and still have issues with it, curiously, sode has no issue although sometimes I do need to refresh it
 
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