2D Panel called "Light Sensor"

[heavymetalaviator 0]

Hey Everyone,

 

           Noticing something strange here.  As I look up right under the "Flights" menu in FSX I noticed a little white dot.  I can expand this dot which stretches out to be a really distorted MCP.  Can someone please tell me what this is?  In window mode it has a title called "Light Sensor"  Also I noticed during one flight that my 2d panels when I would open them such as the FMC are extremely dark.  Not the CRT Screen but the actual FMS itself.  Anything?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

[scottsware 69]

I have the same window in the P3D version. Google pmdg light sensor. It seems to be in all the PMDG airplanes or at least many.

[pete_auau 1,152]

dont  play around with it  or  else :smile:

[Boeing or not going 578]

It senses the ambient light in the sim for PMDG's own light system. Don't edit it. - David Lee

[Zaros 8]

was gonna make a post about this to but since i seen it in triple 7 to it must be intended

[pcubine 143]

It is a light sensor as explained in post #4. I have seen it on the MD-11, NGX, 777, and the now the 744 V3. What Peter Kelberg and David Lee say is very true - don't mess with or you will regret it I know it's tempting to put the cursor on it and start left clicking and right clicking and expand it to see what happens. I did like 7 years ago. I don't remember what happened now. I do remember it wasn't nice.

[coxo2436 5]

geeze you cant fly in vr with that white box smack in front of your moosh

what about a fix????????

 

[pete_auau 1,152]

3 hours ago, coxo2436 said:

geeze you cant fly in vr with that white box smack in front of your moosh

what about a fix????????

 

Must  be  a  fsx  thing  since  moving  to p3dv4   its  not  there  no more,   besides  it  was  so  small  and  in  the  corner  you  didn't  notice  it at all

[Olympic260 415]

5 hours ago, coxo2436 said:

geeze you cant fly in vr with that white box smack in front of your moosh

what about a fix????????

 

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Replying to a post almost a year old is never a good idea as it confuses thinks. If you have a problem I suggest either open a new post, stating in which sim you are seeing the issue or open a ticket through the support portal. support.precisionmanuals.com

[Ephedrin 418]

However concerning VR: as you cant use 2D windows in native VR anyway just set the 2D transparency setting to 100%. 

And for the future: there‘s no point in being angry all the time. Ask, suggest, you might achieve much more than when you come in, grumble and leave with a red head. 

[mfrantz 45]

 

A fix was provided with the 747-400 update at the time the 747-8 expansion was released (2 months ago). If you still see the white box I guess you have not installed this update?

Since this is the 747 forum I assume you were talking about the 747. If you were talking about the other PMDG aircraft, the above post also explains how you can manually fix this for them as well.