Possible flashlight for VC use in 4.4?

[briansommers 74]

delete, never mind.

Edited January 7, 2019 by briansommers
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[Lorby_SI 2,038]

Hello @ll,

I made a prototype real quick, and I am curious if this is what you have in mind?

Best regards

[mwilk 1,106]

Looks good.

[F737MAX 5,604]

21 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

I made a prototype real quick, and I am curious if this is what you have in mind?

Yes, Oliver!
This is exactly what is needed.

I would prefer support for using this and ChasePlane together, but I'd be more than happy to take it as it is.

[Deltaair1212 53]

29 minutes ago, Lorby_SI said:

Hello @ll,

I made a prototype real quick, and I am curious if this is what you have in mind?

Best regards

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Where can the community download this? 

[Lorby_SI 2,038]

4 minutes ago, Deltaair1212 said:

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Where can the community download this? 

At this stage it is just a prototype in my devel environment that I slapped together in under an hour - to see if what I had in mind worked. I wanted to make sure that this is worth pursuing, but you can have it as soon as I make an installer. The light needs more work I guess, and possibly the positioning logic.

This is just a simple dynamic spotlight effect - so it will only work in aircraft that support dynamic lighting. I'm not sure what the general status is on aircraft addons these days, if dynamic lighting is mostly supported or rather not (which would make this whole exercise pointless).

Not sure how it would cooperate with camera addons, but if they change the actual eyepoint position variables pertaining to the main view, it might. 

Best regards

[qqwertz 781]

Yes, please publish this, Oliver! FSSpotlight is a work-around, but your tool is what I was looking for for years. In P3D 4, the problem became more pressing because of dynamic lighting.

Peter

[Lorby_SI 2,038]

Hello @ll,

OK, a first version including installer etc. is ready. If you want to test it, it is on the Lorby-SI website, section DOWNLOADS, way down at the bottom of the page.

I have to stress this again: this flashlight only works on aircraft that were made for P3D V4 and make proper use of dynamic lighting. It will do nothing on legacy addons that were made with old SDKs. To test if the flashlight is working at all, I suggest using the default aircraft in P3D, they all seem to work fine.

In-sim keyboard commands are available to control the app, please refer to the readme. After installing it, it will start and stop automatically with your sim / you will be asked by P3D to activate it. It installs to \Documents\Prepar3d V4 Add-ons, and it doesn't change any config files or settings of your sim. If you don't like it, just uninstall it and it should be gone without a trace.

Best regards

Edited January 7, 2019 by Lorby_SI

[Deltaair1212 53]

Yeahhhhh I don’t use DL so I wouldn’t be able to use the product lol

[signmanbob 592]

That's great Oliver.  Your like the Flightsim "Macgyver"!😏

[DylanC 181]

13 minutes ago, signmanbob said:

That's great Oliver.  Your like the Flightsim "Macgyver"!😏

+1.

Many thanks for this Oliver!

[kmax59 213]

I can confirm this works like a charm with Chaseplane.
Nice work Oliver ! 👍

This is something we have in mind for quite some time at TOGA but we didn't have any time left to investigate and you finally did it whitin a few hours 😅

Is there any place where we could donate to you for your work?
For this (and all your other tools) you definitely deserves support !

[ryanbatc 12,855]

4 hours ago, Lorby_SI said:

Hello @ll,

I made a prototype real quick, and I am curious if this is what you have in mind?

Best regards

Yes but could it be red?  Or even a white /red selectable ?

[GerryJ01 11]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can't begin to count the number of times I've had to switch the sim back to daytime just to find the bleeping light switches and the seemingly endless amount of time I've spent waiting for it to load. Well done!

[d.tsakiris 418]

11 hours ago, kmax59 said:

Is there any place where we could donate to you for your work?

For this (and all your other tools) you definitely deserves support !

Yes, I've already looked for this, too!