I am going to apologize up front for asking this question, but I have tried everything (including contacting Friendly Panels). Friendly Panels "answer" was DX is a "preview" and we do not support it!

I want to thank Steve Parsons (and others) again for all their work on DX10. I have installed tested and reinstalled V3.2.2 patches, and I still cannot find a solution.

I am going to provide links for 4 pictures on my King Air 350 wing tip navigation lights, two with DX and two without DX on. I will also include here the aircraft.cfg changes related to lighting.

These are the changes I made to aircraft.cfg:

Default King Air which Friendly Panels builds from:

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit
light.0 = 1,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
light.1 = 2,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
light.2 = 3,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
light.3 = 3,   0.56, -28.41,  1.97, fx_navred ,
light.4 = 3,   0.56,  28.41,  1.97, fx_navgre ,
light.5 = 3, -31.20,   0.00,  9.75, fx_navwhi ,
light.6 = 2,   0.89, -28.48,  1.87, fx_strobe ,
light.7 = 2,   0.89,  28.48,  1.87, fx_strobe ,
light.8 = 1, -26.30,   0.00,  9.89, fx_beacon ,
light.9 = 2,  -4.55,   0.00, -1.85, fx_strobe ,
light.10 = 4,   4.91,   0.00,  1.64, fx_vclight,

King Air aircraft.cfg created by Friendly Panels and modified by me:

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit
light.0 = 1,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
light.1 = 2,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
light.2 = 3,  0.00,  0.00,  0.00, ballast
;light.3 = 3,   0.56, -28.41,  1.97, fx_navred ,
;light.4 = 3,   0.56,  28.41,  1.97, fx_navgre ,
;light.5 = 3, -31.20,   0.00,  9.75, fx_navwhi ,
;light.6 = 2,   0.89, -28.48,  1.87, fx_strobe ,
;light.5 = 2,   0.89,  28.48,  1.87, fx_strobe ,
;light.8 = 1, -26.30,   0.00,  9.89, fx_beacon ,
;light.9 = 2,  -4.55,   0.00, -1.85, fx_strobe ,
light.3 = 4,   4.91,   0.00,  1.64, fx_vclight,

I have NOT changed anything else in the aircraft.cfg files for either the Default or the Friendly Panels version of the King Air.  If I change the Friendly Panel lines for nav and strobe to not be comments, I get double lights on external view and still no view of wingtip lights from cockpit.

I can not get my wing tip navigation and strobe lights to work on the Friendly Panels version, when I try and view them from the cockpit EITHER virtual or 2D.

I did try it with the above changes without DX and they work OK (can be seen from cockpit). In both NoDX and DX they can be seen from the external views.

ANY ideas or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

The links for the pictures are:

 

No DX-10 left and right wing tips from the cockpit:

 https://www.box.com/s/uode4cqj9jdf12g8p1mf

 https://www.box.com/s/4o2wlk28ltwxtfgzku43

 

With DX-10 left and right wing tips from the cockpit:

 https://www.box.com/s/na4rqtn07ub8odulxcc2

 https://www.box.com/s/2z0kgaxpenqxcpzxhypt

 

ANY ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have read ALL of the documents on AVSM regarding DX-10 and searched the Forums for similar circumstances but I can not seem to find an answer.

 

THANKS!!!!

Good Morning, KRW!

 

You don't need to apologize for asking this kind of question! FSX lighting - whether DX9 or DX10 is a pain the butt - just ask Bill Leaming (of Eaglesoft fame).

 

What I would suggest is to re-read the lights section of the How-To doc, as there were a couple of mods to Steve's fix, done by another DX10'er (RNGR)), which made the fix a whole lot easier to understand and do. Here's the text instruction from the doc:-

 

"The seven files are now to be found here: Simply unpack and unzip them to a temporary spot, copy or rename the original files in the “Effects” folder (or the whole Effects folder itself), and then paste these updated files into the Effects folder."

 

You'll need to wind back all of the work involved in each aircraft.cfg before doing this, of course, and whether you have another issue or not, I don't know, but this is the fix for "most" "normal" aircraft. The other fix being the installation of A2A's "Shockwave Redux" lights.

 

All the Best,

Paul,

 

Thanks for the response. I will try the other "refinements" and see what happens. I guess I missed those in reading the How-To. We have a lot of reading material regarding various problems - which is GOOD!!

 

Regards,

 Bob

The answer from Friendly Panels: "In this case, lights are included in the 3D model, but if we use the aircraft.cfg file to set the lights the result is the same."

 

Can the 3D model be changed? Easily?