Lights added don't light up in scenery

[davido53 2]

help!

 

tks

[avgaskoolaid 292]

?. You need to provide more information if you want help. Which version of XPlane are you using. What lights have you added? What do you mean by they aren't lighting up your scenery? What steps have you performed to install it? 

You wouldn't walk into a restaurant and yell "FOOD", or walk into a mechanic shop and say "CAR BROKE". You need to give all the relevant information you can or else nothing will get done. 

[davido53 2]

XP11, using the WED program, overhead flood lights. Is there something besides just placing them to make them work?

[avgaskoolaid 292]

5 hours ago, davido53 said:

XP11, using the WED program, overhead flood lights. Is there something besides just placing them to make them work?

Much better- now we can get somewhere (you might want to update your thread on x-plane.org as well, it;s also very vague). 

Exactly which overhead flood lights are you using, from which library? Some objects don't include the lights in order to light up the surrounding area. Anyway, it's very easy: once you find an object that has lights (for example, form the MisterX library), all you need to do is place it in your scenery and it will light things up around it. Be sure you press 'Export Scenery Pack' in order to see the changes in the sim.

By the way, if all you're doing is placing objects you should use Overlay Editor. The interface is much easier to use for simple tasks like this. 

[davido53 2]

thank you

[davido53 2]

got it solved...my visual detail was on medium, so I turned it up one notch and it worked