Simviation Forum - Landing lights not showing

Jan 20^th, 2010 at 10:46am

BoeingGuy Ex Member

Even though I have "aircraft landing-lights illuminate ground" turned on, they aren’t illuminating the ground.

EDIT: The landing lights on all of my add-on A/C work fine.

« Last Edit: Jan 20^th, 2010 at 12:52pm by N/A »

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Reply #1 - Jan 20^th, 2010 at 11:08pm

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For which aircraft do they not work?

Peter

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Reply #2 - Jan 20^th, 2010 at 11:25pm

BoeingGuy Ex Member

All of the default.

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Reply #3 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 6:09am

BoeingGuy Ex Member

Would running Repair off the DVD help?

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Reply #4 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 10:31am

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what addons have you installed lately? I bet one of them changed a file that the default aircraft call for, and that is why the lights no longer illuminate the ground.

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Reply #5 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 10:49am

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Revised FSX Lights
http://simviation.com/simviation/index.php?type=item&ID=69&page=6
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FSX Light Fix
http://www.fs-freeware.net/flight-simulator-downloads/Flight-Simulator-X/Scenery...

I forgot to mention in my earlier post, that when I did a complete uninstall of Revised FSX Lights (to see if that would fix it), the landing lights on the default A/C where replaced by black circles.

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Reply #6 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 9:55am

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Have you also tried a System Restore after the uninstall to make sure that your registry and other files are in the state they were prior to your problem?

Peter

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Reply #7 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 10:05am

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Your problem lies in the file nammed SPOTLIGHT.BMP, located in the FSX\texture folder.
You have replaced it with a file from FS9 (or FSX SP1), which is not compatible.
But you can change that.
Open the file with DXTBMP,
- create an Alpha Channel (black),
- send Alpha to editor
- in the editor, make the picture completely white. Completely !
- save in the editor (just "save", not "save as")
- close the editor, get back in DXTBMP
- refresh Alpha
- save as, select extended bipmap, DXT1 (not "DXT1 (No Alpha)" ), and save.
Your problem should be solved.

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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Reply #8 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 12:08pm

BoeingGuy Ex Member

Wouldn't it be easier for someone to send me their spotlight.bmp?

If that's not possible, could you please give the for dummies translation of the steps, I didn't understand one thing you said.

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Reply #9 - Jan 25^th, 2010 at 12:22pm

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Just launch the program and you will understand.
I just can't write it any simpler, go through the menus and you'll see what I'm talking about Wink

Got bloom ?
Got mountains ?
Got damage ?

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