Dirk, no, these are just ExperienceX, with the UTX lights disabled entirely. The underlying road data comes from UTX, though.

 

Greg, it wasn't actually that complicated from my point of view--I installed Experience X, disabled UTX night lighting, found that highway lights weren't showing to my satisfaction, and contacted the developer. At his request I sent my terrain.cfg, which he modified and sent back. I still wasn't happy, so he re-edited it and sent it back. This time the highway lights were working as shown above.

 

James

 

Very nice, James, finally UTX can be used at night with not much FPS impact.

 

Cheers,

Dirk.

James, can you share the tweaks ? or do we have to contact the developer ourselves ?

Here are some "after" pictures of New York City--you can see that the highways clearly have larger yellow lights in contrast to the smaller white lights spread through the populated areas. Before the tweaks the highways were barely showing any lights, even after disabling UTX night lights. The terrain.cfg tweaks by the developer fixed the problem.

 

James

 

That looks pretty nice James. After seeing your and Rick's pics I think I might go ahead and pick this up today.

 

James, can you share the tweaks ? or do we have to contact the developer ourselves ?

 

+1 for that. It would be cool James if you could paste the relevant section of your terrain.cfg for us to see so that we could skip having to contact the developer.

Would only be the last 5 groups of lines in your terrain.cfg file, looking forward to it James.

Would only be the last 5 groups of lines in your terrain.cfg file, looking forward to it James.

 

Hey Rick, I like the look you created as well. Would you mind posting your set up as well so that I could try both?

2nd post down it is posted probablly not much different than James version.

Just bought this and checked out a few places. It's great to have these lights all over the world now, but was disappointed to see that the night textures get replaced. I have all the GEX textures, and much prefer their night textures.

 

I read earlier that the developer has a hotfix available for GEX North America and Europe, so I'm going to look into that.

 

I hope that eventually these lights will be made compatible with all UTX and GEX products.

 

I read that the developer is going to release an update in September which will include several user-customizable features, which would be great.

 

So far, I'm impressed. Really looking forward to the update and future compatibilty patches.

 

Thanks!

Just bought this and checked out a few places. It's great to have these lights all over the world now, but was disappointed to see that the night textures get replaced. I have all the GEX textures, and much prefer their night textures.

 

I wasn't aware that it came with replacement night textures. I though it was just the lights?

 

You sure about that? I just read the product page and its only a 143 mb download and it doesn't mention texture replacements.

Here's the last 5 lines of my terrain.cfg:

 

// Small road light

[Autogen.2.1.0]

guid={B4011B59-8B6B-C446-B79D-A9DA97AC3C05}

LegacyId=2

AutoObject={5d7cd342-761d-4ceb-9814-66c5c76eb010} (ag_light)

ObjectSize=200

Offset=10

Density=100

MinAutogenDensity=20

PlaceOnWater=No

RandomHeading=No

 

// Medium road light

[Autogen.3.2.0]

guid={81F596DE-70CF-DC43-BFCC-6F64A456DB23}

LegacyId=3

AutoObject={5d7cd342-761d-4ceb-9814-66c5c76eb010} (ag_light)

ObjectSize=200

Offset=10

Density=100

MinAutogenDensity=40

PlaceOnWater=No

RandomHeading=No

 

// Small highway light

[Autogen.4.3.0]

guid={1D64764E-9F03-894D-AA40-847233974C2C}

LegacyId=4

AutoObject={2ddb04f6-5f14-4f6b-8d05-5eea3c18d8da} (ag_light)

ObjectSize=200

Offset=15

Density=100

MinAutogenDensity=20

PlaceOnWater=No

RandomHeading=No

 

// Large highway light

[Autogen.5.3.0]

guid={079F0A35-198F-AC4B-B5BF-BD27A1462736}

LegacyId=5

AutoObject={2ddb04f6-5f14-4f6b-8d05-5eea3c18d8da} (ag_intenseghlight)

ObjectSize=200

Offset=15

Density=100

MinAutogenDensity=20

PlaceOnWater=No

RandomHeading=No

 

// Large divided highway light

[Autogen.6.4.0]

guid={24A157E8-59BA-7748-AB32-7A688036A873}

LegacyId=6

AutoObject={2ddb04f6-5f14-4f6b-8d05-5eea3c18d8da} (ag_intenselight)

ObjectSize=200

Offset=15

Density=100

MinAutogenDensity=20

PlaceOnWater=No

RandomHeading=No

 

James

James, so if I understand things right in order to have the nice lights you have we have to : disable night lighting (utx), install this software and copy/paste those lines above into our terrain.cfg ?

 

 

thanks

That's right.

You sure about that? I just read the product page and its only a 143 mb download and it doesn't mention texture replacements.

 

Yes, I'm certain. I just restored the original textures from the backup and sure enough my old GEX night textures are back.

 

I think the developer should have told customers about this considering that many of us don't want our textures overwritten without our knowledge.

 

On a positive note, I believe the developer is working on patches to make the product compatible with GEX and UTX.

 

Dave

Holy mac, I want to keep my gex and utx textures.That means I'll have wait for the compatibility patch right ?

Hello everyone, I come here to clarify that our product ExperienceX modifies the default FSX textures night .

For users GEX, the hotfix preserves the textures of the night GEX.

For UTX users, we have to modify the file terrain.cfg manually.

Our support to this disposal.

thanks

 

bracket

beetleprint.

Hmmm, purchased this and cant install it on win7 64? when I go to the backup window to select my FSX installlation the dialogue box opens but the OK/cancel buttons are missing