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Need some help with an aircraft config file (Read 342 times)

May 2^nd, 2007 at 2:51pm

-SWCowboy. Offline
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Hi all!

I'm trying to understand why the wingtip lights on this plane are floating out of place. I had it made for my site and I'd like to fix the lighting placement in the HLP Cowboy but I don't understand the config file yet to do it on my own.

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit
light.0 = 3, -2.62, -8.28, -0.65, fx_navred
light.1 = 3, -2.62, 8.28, -0.65, fx_navgre
light.2 = 2, -2.752, -8.28, -0.65, fx_strobe
light.3 = 2, -2.752, 8.28, -0.65, fx_strobe
light.4 = 4, -6.62, 0.00, 8.50, fx_vclight

I imagine this is what I need to adjust, I just don't know what to mess with here. What do these numbers mean? They look to be positional axis numbers, so do I just need to adjust them?

Hotlinks to zip files on my site protect my ZIP files, but this triplane is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.fsinnovation.net/fs2004/fs2004props1.php

Thanks for your time!
-SWC.

-SWCowboy.&&&&www.fsinnovation.net

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Reply #1 - May 2^nd, 2007 at 3:37pm

microlight Offline
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The format is:

light.X=switch_number (as in the list in your example), longitudinal_distance, lateral_distance, vertical distance, effects_name

The distances are in feet from the model's reference datum (specified in the [weight_and_balance] section of the aircraft.cfg file), which is usually quarter wing chord, centeline, waterline. Change the numbers to move them until they're where they need to be.

Can be a slow painstaking process!

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