Hi all,

 

Is it possible to dim the default 208 interior lighting (shift-l) via the lights section of the aircraft.cfg file? They are too bright..I've messed with my monitor settings but ot just seems to affect daytime flying too much..was wondering of there was a number I could dial down somewhere.

 

 

 

In fact, I've notied that when you use the panel lights switch located to the left of the battery meter, there is a short (<1s) when only the gauge lights are lit, then seemingly the cabin floods come on and wash everything out.. it borks my night vision!

 

Thanks

 

jake

Edited January 13, 201313 yr by quadraspleen

Unfortunately, the overhead lights are tied to the panel lights control. The only viable option is to comment out the overhead lights from the aircraft.cfg's [Lights] section.

Hi,

 

You can place a rectangle in front of everything with different grades of transparancy.

It simulates a dimmer.

In the 2D panel you can use the Night line of the last section in the panel.cfg file to lower the night lighting. The Luminous line is the color of the lit gauge faces.

Thanks for all the replies, folks. I think Bills answer is the easiest and within my simian grasp of cfg file editing I always fly in the VC so the 2d panel option is not one I can go for, thanks anyway, Tom. And the rectangle transparency option makes my head hurt, Jan I'm not a panel builder (just a mangler using FSPS)

 

Bill, so if I use your hack, the panel lights will still come on?

 

I don't care at all about the interior lighting; i just flew an instrument approach into Beauvais, Paris in RW Wx (c. 2k vis, raining hard; 9kt xw - dark, wearing sunglasses) and I kept having to turn the lights off as I just couldn't see outside at all!

That did the trick.

 

Thanks, Bill

That did the trick.

 

Thanks, Bill

You are welcome. I despise the ".fx overhead lighting" anyway, since it really isn't possible to drop your pencil in the sim anyway...

 

...so there's no need for intense "floodlighting"... :Silly:

 

It is of course also possible to reassign the commented out .fx "lights" to another circuit entirely, such as 10 which is "Cockpit Lights," but then unless you can add a switch or keyboard command to turn 'em on/off, they would be useless! :wacko:

unless you can add a switch or keyboard command to turn 'em on/off, they would be useless!

 

And I've got your guides and I WILL read them ALL the WHOLE WAY THROUGH one day soon, Bill, I promise :smile: ..

 

I am a tinkerer at heart, but so many tinkles, so little time!

It is of course also possible to reassign the commented out .fx "lights" to another circuit entirely, such as 10 which is "Cockpit Lights," but then unless you can add a switch or keyboard command to turn 'em on/off, they would be useless!

 

This is my preferred method. In the Grumman Goose I added a couple of lights to illuminate the instruments and radio stack, on circuit 10, then changed the electrical panel to assign the unused Taxi Lights switch to turn them on and off.

 

In the Carenado C377 Skymaster, I added a small mouse area in the upper left of the GPS to handle the toggle, as it was impossible to find the overhead cabin light switch in the dark. In the real aircraft I could just feel for it, but that's not an option in the sim.

 

The magic XML code is:

 

<Area Left="10" Top="10" Width="30" Height="30">

<Cursor Type="Hand"/>

<Click>1 (>K:TOGGLE_CABIN_LIGHTS)</Click>

</Area>

 

For the Carenado GPS

or

 

<MouseClick id="MouseClick">

<KeyEvent>TOGGLE_CABIN_LIGHTS</KeyEvent>

</MouseClick>

 

For the Goose taxi light switch. The format will be different depending on the XML, but the variable name is TOGGLE_CABIN_LIGHTS

 

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