For some time now the taxi and landing lights on ALL my PMDG products do not illuminate the ground. They work, i can see them lighting the aircraft but not the ground. When ALL the lights are on i can see some of the light on the ground but in bad resolution/low quality only in the area that is illuminated. This is only happening on the PMDG products. Every other aircraft works fine and in high quality detail. 

 

I have tried re-installing the aircraft with no luck. 

 

Please help and advice how i can get this fixed. Night time flying sucks for this reason.

 

thanks

 

Kevin

And you have those fuselage landing lights extended out, right?

On the 737NGs ie. the NGX there are two sets of landing lights. One set in the wing root and one set that are retractable into the lower fuselage. So if you turn on the fixed landing lights, the ones in the wing root, they should cast light on the pavement regardless of the status of the retractable landing lights. I'm pretty sure you can't turn on the retractable lights without them being extended. I believe that's the way the switch works, in order to get to the lights on position you have to pass through the extend position of the switch.

 

Dave

Hi guys. Not too sure what exactly you mean by the fuselage lights? I just turn the lights on and off from the overhead panel as usual. Is there any other steps i need to take before thats done? I even toggle between ALL external lights off and on still nothing changes. Today i realized one thing though. When i first turn the lights on the lights do come on and are visibile for a fraction of a second and then they disappear. That means that the lights do work and that the problem is something visual. Something else is not allowing those lights to remain visible. Somehing is somehow overriding them. Puzzles me.

I was able to get the lights to work but now the part where the ground is illuminated is in low resolution. Anyone have any idea why THAT is happening now?  Please help

Low resolution? What do you mean? If you mean not very bright that's because the taxi light on the NG isn't very bright.

Do you use REX weather?  REX can change the lights. I think the file REX changes is spotlight.bmp.

 

Just food for thought. Not sure this will fix your problem.

 

Don

Did you have "advanced animations" switched off in the FSX options? This needs to be on as the landing lights use a skinned mesh which requires advanced animations to be on to work.

 

The low resolution is probably due to the ground textures in whatever scenery you have. Ground textures can either be a day texture which is darkened (which is how the default runway textures work) or a day and night texture combination (during the day the day texture is shown, at dawn and dusk the night texture is blended in until at night only the night texture is shown). If the scenery is using a night texture then this will have a very low resolution as the night texture will need to be mostly black. Night textures are used by some sceneries to provide the illusion of apron lighting.

 

The way the PMDG lights work they can only work with the underlying ground textures, if the ground texture is low res then there is nought that can be done to make it any higher res.

 

The landing lights work best on a normal day texture which has been darkened at night by FSX itself (such as the default runway textures). Try the aircraft on a default airport and see if you still have the low res problem.

 

signed as per PMDG rules : Anthony Lynch

Maybe something with DX10 Fixer version 2.3 ?

 

this is from steves site :

 

2.3 Missing File

POSTED BY STEVEFSX ⋅  JUNE 26, 2014⋅ 22 COMMENTS

 

Unfortunately, the 2.3 FSS release of DX10 Scenery Fixer is missing a configuration file.

This causes issues with some lights such as landing lights

To correct this

1. download the file DX10Product.ini using this link https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nnfapxeln8d8wbq/AADXn1vA5S7jO5B0fkUaSCh2a
2. Uninstall the libraries using DX10Controller
3. Then copy the downloaded file to C:\Program Data\DX10Scenery Fixe
4. Install the libraries using DX10 Controller.

Michael Moe