Simviation Forum - Alternative night lighting colours

Oct 6^th, 2010 at 6:40am

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Hi Simmers, Last year I downloaded a program that enabled me to change the panel colours from default to either blue, green, red, etc. unfortunately its got lost, can anybody suggest where I can locate it again? I thank you in anticipation. Dobermann

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Reply #1 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 8:24pm

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If you can't find the program, you might try to adjust the colors yourself. They're controlled in a section named [COLOR] in the panel.cfg file. Here's an example:

[COLOR]
Day=255,255,255
Night=225,125,125
Luminous=250,200,175

"Night" is for the overall lighting. "Luminous" is for the gauge faces. 255 is the maximum value, 0 (zero) is the minimum.

I suggest you save a copy of the panel.cfg file as, say, panel-original.cfg, just in case. You should also save the last values like this:

Night=175,100,100 //225,125,125.

The values following the double-slashes are ignored by the program, but will let you go back to the earlier values if you don't like your latest.

I've found most of the default lighting for night flying is way too bright. You could play a night ball game in the cockpit.

Art

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Reply #2 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 8:43pm

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Dobermann wrote on Oct 6^th, 2010 at 6:40am:

Hi Simmers, Last year I downloaded a program that enabled me to change the panel colours from default to either blue, green, red, etc. unfortunately its got lost, can anybody suggest where I can locate it again? I thank you in anticipation. Dobermann

Look for my Tutorial on the subject - it is named cockpit_lighting.zip
Not sure if it is the library here - if not, other well known sites have it.

Edit Added: I just uploaded (Oct 6 - 8 PM Central time) it to the library here - so it should be available soon.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #3 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 8:47pm

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By the way, each of three numbers controls red, green, and blue, respectively.

Here's a digital color guide I just found on the web:

http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

The third column lists the the RGB values.

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Reply #4 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 9:18pm

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I was interested in what David's tutorial had to say. There's one available at FltSim.com. The file name is: ckpl_tut.zip

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Reply #5 - Oct 6^th, 2010 at 10:01pm

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aeroart wrote on Oct 6^th, 2010 at 9:18pm:

I was interested in what David's tutorial had to say. There's one available at FltSim.com. The file name is: ckpl_tut.zip

Art

That is the same one which I recently uploaded to the library here. The name is different as at the time I uploaded it there, Flightsim only could use the old DOS 8 characters plus an extension when naming a file.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #6 - Oct 7^th, 2010 at 6:55am

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Just what I was looking for "Opa", thankyou for your rapid response, and to you Art for the info. what we do without guys like you?

Dobermann

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Reply #7 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:18am

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I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:30am

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patchz wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:18am:

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #9 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 10:32am

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Opa wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:30am:

patchz wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:18am:

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

Ok thanks. The only thing I've tried is your way. It works for the 2D but not the VC. At this point, I don't have any idea what else to try.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #10 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 12:59pm

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It seems to me that to create some lighting in the VC, you just have to add an appropriate light effect in the [lights] section of the aircraft.cfg (with correct coordinates, of course).

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Reply #11 - Oct 9^th, 2010 at 9:45pm

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patchz wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 10:32am:

Opa wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:30am:

patchz wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 6:18am:

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

Ok thanks. The only thing I've tried is your way. It works for the 2D but not the VC. At this point, I don't have any idea what else to try.

Check your PM's (Personal Messages)

David "Opa" Marshall

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Reply #12 - Oct 11^th, 2010 at 5:05pm

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Or the author provides _L textures in the plane's texture folder to light the VC textures.

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