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Runway Light GUIDs

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A couple of GUID questions involving runway lights.

First, do any of the runway lights (specifically the PAPI4 approach lights or the touchdown lights) have GUIDs? Are they defined somewhere in the global object library? If so, what are they and how do I find their associated GUIDs?
If they do not have defined GUIDs, is there any way to use FsxPlanner (or ADE) to specify an instanceId/GUID somewhere in xml?

What I am really trying to accomplish is the ability to turn various runway lights on and off during a custom mission. I feel like this could be done using action triggers if I simply had a reference to the actual light (their instance id’s). For example, once the user aircraft enters a proximity area, turn on light X. The problem is I cannot figure out what "X" is.

My only other thought was creating an "invisible" runway with some attached lights, compile it into a .bgl, and then somehow attach a GUID to the entire .bgl file. Is there any way to do that?

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
I have deleted the post in the ADE forum. There is no point in cross posting questions. We all look at all the posts that come in so your post will be seen by those who might be able to help. This is the fourth time you have asked the question as far as I can tell.

Runway lights themselves do not have GUIDs they are created as part of the XML code used to generate the runway.
 
And there was another double one to which I answered. Let's keep the one in the BGLComp XML forum open for further discussion.
 
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