gwillmot - your sarcastic first response ("Really?") to a legitimate question by a new member (his 2nd post) wasn't the kind of dialogue most of us in this forum want to see and not exactly encouraging to someone new to the forum. If you don't have something useful to say, I'd suggest in future you ignore the post instead of belittling someone.

 

How many stars a topic has or has not is irrelevant and making this a topic for discussion is a waste of everyone's time. Let's move on guys...

+100!!

Alas I have to reply, because left as is, my comment can be construed as a breach of AVSIM TOS. I know this, because in a complaint to the Admin recently, I referred to the anonymous person 1-starring us as an a**hole. This was construed as abuse of another member, and I got thrown off for a week or so!  

In truth, I reckon the "stars" are silly and should be removed to avoid this kind of nonsense, but that is a matter for the Admin to decide. There was a time when one might look up highly starred topics as a good reference, but obviously no more.

 

Gwilmot:

You know my attitude to your generally negative comments... this was just a swat at your latest one, which seemed to strongly support the lone star rating the topic had attracted.

 

I am delighted it is not you doing this, I wish we could establish who is, and get them thrown off. It is puerile and pathetic behaviour, as I have said.

 

To the original poster:

Sorry about all this, it's generally not the norm for people to go careening about, ignoring the topic... and generally posts here are rather more constructive. 

 

To make up, I will take some time and investigate the effect you mention, it does sound do-able!

If you don't have something useful to say, I'd suggest in future you ignore the post instead of belittling someone.

 

Ahhh .......never mind, it would have been way too easy.

 

And on that bombshell, it's time to go.  Good night!

I had a look at the various light effects... sadly I don't think you can achieve this within the effect itself.

I did manage to get lights to switch on in distinct brightening steps, but not the reverse.

Perhaps a gauge is the answer, in which case it will be Ed that finds the answer.

 

The effort was not entirely wasted; every now and then one wants to have a look in the sim, when you have tweaked something.

Loading and reloading a typically massive installation will use up most of your time.

So I created the Ten Second Sim.

First: an aircraft folder that contains only the stock Cessna 182 (which is what my default flight uses)

Second: a scenery.cfg file that has only stock entries up to [area.37]

Third: a scenery/world/scenery folder with NO Traffic files

Fourth: a shortcut on the desktop to the "Previous Flight" .FLT file 

 

The "real" folders and files are renamed temporarily for the exercise, and then the fun begins.

Tweak, hit the shortcut icon, look, quit, tweak again.

10 second cycles... you can do a lot more tweaking this way.