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Sep 11^th, 2004 at 1:35am

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My searches are coming up empty.

I'm trying to find those SCALAR settings someone suggested for more accurate runway lights.

Maybe this time, I'll put them into a text doc and file it.

Thanks,

Joe

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Reply #1 - Sep 11^th, 2004 at 11:05am

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May i suggest looking in the AFCAD2 Readme file

42. Runway Lights
Runway lights are set on the Lights tab page of the Runway Properties window. Lights are displayed on the AFCAD window when you select Show Lights under the View menu, or toggled on by pressing the L key. Here is a picture describing the Light options:

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Reply #2 - Sep 11^th, 2004 at 11:42am

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Sorry, I should have been more specific. A while back, someone had posted a few lines to be added to the fs9.cfg file which alters the appearance of the runway lighing.
I don't remember who. All I do remember is it was something with LIGHT and SCALAR but nothing is coming up in my searches.

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Reply #3 - Sep 11^th, 2004 at 11:47am

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I think I found it, It's more than a year old, I didn't look back that far.

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When I edit the lines in the FS9.cfg with these:

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.5 //scales edge, center,end,touchdown,runways
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.5 // scales VASI lights)
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=0.5 // scales approach light bars
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=0.5 //scales RAILs and ODALs)

to tone down those dreadful FS2004 runway, VASI, etc. lights to make them more realistic, FS blacks out then never returns. I've got to bring up the Task Manager to close FS, because it crashed. The lower the number I put, the shorter the time it takes to black out. When it's set to the original value of 1.0, it doesn't black out.

Hardware-rendered lights is set to "8" (full).. What could be wrong?

Now I just need to figure out where to put them.

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