A quick question..
Why does my effects (AB, Mach, contrails, ect) turn on and off when I turn on the lights? Well I know they are under the lights section in the CFG, but is it right? Is there an alternative way?

Thanx  Travis,will play around.

I have been searching for this thread for at least the past MONTH!!! I have been having A/b problems on my FS9 F14.  I have looked at every single file in the F14DTomcat 'aircraft' folder, trying to get the dang AB's to turn off when throttle is less than ~90%.   couldnt do it.   then thanks to you MICROLITE, i went and looked in my PANEL.CFG..... "gauge40=rcb-gauges!F14EffectControl,  0,0,20,20" ... which got me thinking.....

"is there something wrong with the XML GAUGE in that folder for that?"

RCB GAUGES folder was NOT in the Gauges folder so that is why it was not being controlled.   ..... Now it is and everything is working just fine.



BUT!!!!! wait up... I have another problem... my SonicBoom sound is not working either.   

gauge46=rcb-miljet!SonicBoomControl,  0,0,20,20

SonicBoomContol . xml  IS inside RCB-MILJET ..... Which IS inside FS9 GAUGES.... So that is correct and working..... I do see the shockwave around the aircraft, but it will NOT play the sound.  (SonicBoom.wav IS in the FS9 SOUND folder so that it can be called up... but for whatever reason, the XML is not making the sound play)

Any ideas of what is wrong???





Here is the contents of FS9/Gauges/Rcb-Miljet/SonicBoomControl.xm

<Gauge Name="FS2004 Sonic Boom Effect Control" Version="2.0">
<Comment>
This gauge controls a SonicBoom effect when the aircraft reaches Mach-1:
- Switches on a visible effect defined in the aircraft.cfg with Light#10 ("Cabin Lights").
- Plays a Boom sound, via Doug Dawson's COP_Sounds.gau: file SonicBoom.wav.
To get the best synchronisation with the visible effect, the sound effect is delayed 3 sec.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: Although this gauge is freeware, it may not be renamed, copied,
modified, or bundled in an other archive without my prior consent.
Rob Barendregt, 29 nov 2004

</Comment>.

   <Update Frequency="6"/>

   <Element>
      <Select>
         <Value>
            (A:AIRSPEED MACH, number) 0.99 &gt; (A:LIGHT CABIN,bool) ! &amp;&amp;
            if{
               (&gt;K:TOGGLE_CABIN_LIGHTS)
               (P:Local Time,seconds) (&gt;G:Var1)
            }

            (A:AIRSPEED MACH, number) 0.98 &lt; (A:LIGHT CABIN,bool) &amp;&amp;
            if{
               (&gt;K:TOGGLE_CABIN_LIGHTS)
            }

            (G:Var1) 0 &gt; (P:Local Time,seconds) (G:Var1) 3 + &gt; &amp;&amp;
            if{
               1 (&gt;L:COP_SonicBoomSound,bool)
               0 (&gt;G:Var1)
            }
         </Value>
      </Select>
   </Element>

</Gauge>

Glad to be of service, Cap'n.

Regarding the sound: have you got the COP_Sounds.gau referenced in the panel.cfg also? You'll need this to get the sound to play. The reference line will look something like this:

gaugeXX=dsd_xml_autocabin!dsd_xml_sound2,  2,2,5, 5, .\Sound\Autocabin\Autocabin.cfg

This is a line from my AutoEnvironment package which triggers sounds based on a configuration file (autocabin.cfg in this case) which links XML commands to sound files. It's located in a specified folder within the main Sound folder. This should all be specified in the plane's readme file.