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Nav Lights & Beacons (Read 1374 times)

Sep 9^th, 2010 at 3:41pm

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Does anybody make a set of Nav lights than can be seen ? I'm pretty unhappy with the offering on FS9. I can zoom-in and get right on the wing tip and still the lights are not visable or are hardly visable. This isn't just one plane but all of them. Lights on the default planes at least should be correctly located shouldn't they and be VISIBLE.

The visability of the FS9 lights certainly don't meet FAA requirements.

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Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2010 at 4:12pm

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Been there, done that! Grin

Give Nick's Light Fix a try.

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004misc18.htm

I used them until I started making my own light effects. Very nice.

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Reply #2 - Sep 9^th, 2010 at 4:37pm

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Groundbound1 wrote on Sep 9^th, 2010 at 4:12pm:

Give Nick's Light Fix a try.

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004misc18.htm

I concur

While you're at it, also get his vortez and dust effects. Search for Nick Needham.

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Reply #3 - Sep 10^th, 2010 at 5:12pm

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There are probably hundreds of different aircraft light effects out there freely available, just a matter of finding the ones you really like.

My personal favs are the nav lights that come with Iris' aircraft. Now that many of them are freeware, you can get those effects without having to purchase a model.

Also making effects is fairly easy to do once you get the hang of it, just takes a lot of trial and error to get them to look like you want.

-Mike G.

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Reply #4 - Sep 14^th, 2010 at 3:49pm

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i believe that some have used the FSX 3D 'Shockwave' Lights in FS9 and they work, but I have yet to try them so i do not know. If you want to try them make sure you back up the originals just in case they dont work.

3D Lights at the top of the page...
http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=69&page=15&mark=7971

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Reply #5 - Sep 18^th, 2010 at 6:00pm

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Sep 14^th, 2010 at 3:49pm:

3D Lights at the top of the page...
http://www.simviation.com/simviation/?ID=69&page=15&mark=7971

Where can I get the fx files?

The link says, Needed files: http://www.simviation.com/simviation/static.php?ID=69&page=2 but that page doesn't have any fx files, unless they are buried in the boat file.

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Reply #6 - Sep 18^th, 2010 at 9:31pm

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According to the Tutorial, this is the 'extra" package which you need to download (presumably has the light effect files referred to in the Tutorial):

ftp://www.simviation.com/dynamic/sirgtxv2.zip

The link in the file description of the Tutorial is incorrect but the link in the Tutorial itself appears to be the correct one.

BTW - The "Shockwave" lights mentioned in an earlier post are a Payware product.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #7 - Sep 18^th, 2010 at 11:15pm

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Thanks. My FS machine is shut down for the night so I'll have to try to make sense of this later.

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