Simviation Forum - aircraft lights

Nov 5^th, 2011 at 10:16am

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I have an issue now with the nav lights, strobes, beacons and some panel lights not working on my aircraft as well as AI aircraft after installing some add ons. Any recommendations?

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Reply #1 - Nov 5^th, 2011 at 10:52am

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Did your addons include new lights that had you over-write the original light effects when you placed them in the effects folder?

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Reply #2 - Nov 5^th, 2011 at 1:22pm

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I don't recall having to put anything into the effects folder but I may have in a rush.

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Reply #3 - Nov 5^th, 2011 at 2:09pm

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Which addon(s) caused the problem?

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Reply #4 - Nov 6^th, 2011 at 8:50am

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last installations were; dash7_allegheny_commuter_pack, d7vcmdla, bae146_cc2_x, 1do328J_3_x, dominican_connection_dh-6_twin_otter, Dornier-Do328Jet, OpenClouds, VIDP, B1900C_2_Serair

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Reply #5 - Nov 6^th, 2011 at 1:03pm

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I have no idea what VIDP is.

I guess the first thing to do is open the aircraft.cfg files and look at the [lights] section and note the "fx_lightXX" entries and then check to see if those effects are present in your FSX\effects folder.

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Reply #6 - Nov 7^th, 2011 at 6:05am

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I installed Nicks Light-Fix v2 FSX and checked out a couple of my planes and the lights were now working on them.

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Reply #7 - Nov 7^th, 2011 at 12:06pm

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In regards to Nick's LightFix, don't install the landing light, it was made for FS9 thus is incompatible with FSX.

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Reply #8 - Nov 9^th, 2011 at 9:22am

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copy the lights by Nick. I also have the issue now of my vc lights not working and landing lights now working on the default aircraft. Also, black smoke and contrails. Any idea where I can get the fx files for those to replace/reinstall what I have? I'm currently in Afghanistan and dont have my FSX disks with me.

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Reply #9 - Nov 9^th, 2011 at 2:01pm

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Black smoke and contrails may likely be due to missing effect texture bmps that the effect file is looking for. You can open the effect file with notepad, and look through the [particleattributes] entries and note the "texture=XXX.bmp" and then check your effects Texture folder for those .bmps. A lot of effects use fx_1 or fx_2. Each one of those .bmps have several elements that ae used to build the effect.

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