Hi captain

 

I opened it in wordpad on Win8, wordwrap doesn't totally align everything onto single lines but it is easily worked out what you need to change. Here is how I did it.

 

I looked through Chris' file to see what I wanted to change, basically the section of airport surface lights, approach light and PAPI's, and copied and pasted them into a word document and printed this out. I then opened my unchanged 'lights' file in the X-Plane location and went to this same section of lighting. I basically compared what I had in there to what Chris changed, and so far as i could see it is all the BILLBOARD lines and the fifth parameter along which I think is the light width. I changed all these and saved the file and that is it.

 

Please feel free to correct me if anyone knows any better, but I have certainly got an effect I am happy with. At the end of the day the original file is included in the download if you do muck this up and need to revert.

Thanks sichars68, yes it's mostly the "size" column is what you want to change and BILLBOARD_HW or BILLBOARD_SW only.

 

We should all post pics of our lights.txt configuration just so others can see. It's pretty cool how you can modify each and every light in the game to your specific liking. I've been messing with this for the past hour trying to get it to how I like. It's pretty fun.

 

Here's my updated shot of the airport lighting at 100% night. Trying to get it to look realistic. I'm not a pilot so I've never actually see how bright the airport lights are at night before. Watching youtube videos is hard to determine, since every camera that records video may expose the lights much brighter than they appear to be than the human eye. Any real pilots here who can tell me if this is close to how the lighting is at night?