FSX-MS Shockwave 3D Redux worth it?

[VeryBumpy 272]

Its amazingly hard to find before and after screenshots of this addon.

 

It claims to do a lot more than just the headlight landing lights but I can't find any screens or videos showing whats changed. All I see are brighter glowing headlights.

 

For $17 I'd like to choose wisely since I really don't fly that much at night.

 

Plus no mention of a frame rate hit if any.

[FloG 148]

I'd say, it's definitely worth 17 bucks. It adds a more "real" feel of how lights look by gving it a "voluminous glow". Btw there are some screenshots of the default aircraft with those 3D lights, so you can see what it actually does, for example here. I like it, but it needs a bit of tweaking for other than default aircraft.

And if you don't really fly at night, it might not give you that experience.

 

Regards

Flo

[Kosta 122]

I like it, but it needs a bit of tweaking for other than default aircraft.

And if you don't really fly at night, it might not give you that experience.

 

It's the reason I didn't get it... the need to fiddle with cfg files for each aircraft makes my head spin. Good addon if you are ready to do that.

[VeryBumpy 272]

It's the reason I didn't get it... the need to fiddle with cfg files for each aircraft makes my head spin. Good addon if you are ready to do that.

 

Ugg...really? That is a pain indeed.

[Kosta 122]

Ugg...really?

 

Really.

[Fatback 84]

It installs itself for the default aircraft but the rest you need to do yourself individually. And you need to be careful, for instance you can't use the wingtip lights on aircraft that have flex wings because the Redux lights don't flex. So on my CS aircraft I just have the landing lights, but just that makes a huge difference.

[Paul J 349]

Most addon aircraft, including the MTX and UT2 AI aircraft have been created by A2A enthusiasts, and are published on their forums. There's about twenty minutes of work to add them to the MTX installation, for e.g.

and... it fixes the DX10 lighting issues...

[ReneB 3]

For popular airliner a/c like the iFly 737, the PMDG NGX and the QW 757, one can easily find the Redux (Shockwave) light settings for the a/c cfg file at their support forums. It takes less than a minute to install them. Although I wasn't much of a night flyer in the past, the Redux lights were one of the reasons I've become one (together with the fantastic VC lights of e.g. the NGX). As Fatback said, it makes a huge difference.

 

Regards,

René

[woodhick 504]

Doing the install on your first after market model will take 45 minutes. After that you can do it in 10-15. It ain't a biggie, just precise. They look better so they're worth it from that standpoint alone.

[VeryBumpy 272]

Does anyone have a few before and after pics of a few planes?

[FSMP 95]

Does anyone have a few before and after pics of a few planes?

 

Look on YOUTUBE -- plenty of videos of FSX planes using Shockwave Lights

[VeryBumpy 272]

Look on YOUTUBE -- plenty of videos of FSX planes using Shockwave Lights

 

I know that, I'm looking for before and after or side by side comparisons.

[gandy 18]

i dont use the 3d effect on all my aircraft as it replaces some stock textures and im happy with the results from that :)

[Clutch Cargo 384]

If you kinda like to "tinker" then I think it is a good buy. But many of the aircraft already have .cfg files written out from other simmers so it can be just a copy/paste activity. I actually don't use the landing light options that much, more for NAV, strobes and beacons. I changed over my entire AI fleet to them and it just looks great and I am talking about during the day. But dusk and night are especially "immersive" (is that a word?)

 

Clutch

[Tomaz Drnovsek 440]

I like those 3d Shockwave lights, I have them installed on almost every aircraft I own and also on all the UT2 AI traffic which makes for some amazing views at the evening or at night.

You don't need to install them all immediately on all the aircraft you have. I did it gradually. First on those I fly the most than whenever I wanted to fly something else I found the config files on A2A forums and just c/p the lights section to aircraft.cfg. I takes like a minute.

 

There's about twenty minutes of work to add them to the MTX installation

 

How can you do that? I can't find any instructions on A2A forums just a ton of questions about that without any answers. That would be amazing if that would be possible since I use MTX and UT2 together.