FSX-MS The lack of landing lights is leaving me in the dark

[dotmicron 0]

Evening, 

To put it shortly, I have no landing lights visible on the ground in front of my plane at night. This occurs with all default aircraft, and some payware planes (as far as I know, it's just the Aerosoft Twin Otter and the CaptainSim Boeing 757). On the CaptainSim 757, you can see the actual lights on the model, but not on the ground. I have gone though my settings in FSX. "Pilot controls landing lights" under realism is ON, and "aircraft landing lights reflect on the ground" is also ON. Any help would be much appreciated. CaptainSim have refused to help, by the way. That forum thread for that can be found here: https://www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl?num=1546440405

- Tom

[charliearon 3,017]

If you jump to an outside view, looking at the nose of your aircraft,   are your landing lights on?  Can you show a screenshot of what you see?

[Bob Scott 7,710]

As I recall, there were lots of issues in FSX with various add-ons replacing the default spotlight.bmp file that defines the landing light lightmap with something that didn't work properly.  If it was replaced, it might also not be DX10-compatible if you're using DX10 Preview in FSX.

FWIW, CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas...a far shot from refusing to help.  Since you're also having problems with default acft, this sure looks like a problem with your system, as they suggested.

Regards

[charliearon 3,017]

Possibly something corrupted the spotlight.bmp or removed it.

[vc10man 732]

4 minutes ago, w6kd said:

FWIW, CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas...a far shot from refusing to help.  Since you're also having problems with default acft, this sure looks like a problem with your system, as they suggested.

Spot-on, Bob. I have lost count of the number of posts in the CS Forum, where 'every' fault even if user-created is ................a bug!

I have been flying the CD757v3 now for a couple of weeks and at night mainly and never had an issue with just the taxi-light,--------never mind the runway t/o lights or landing lights -----giving me enough illumination on the taxiway. In P3Dv4.4 of course. Don't know about FSX as I ditched that platform ages ago

[stans 702]

14 hours ago, dotmicron said:

I have no landing lights visible on the ground in front of my plane at night. This occurs with all default aircraft, and some payware planes

In your FSX settings do you have "Landing lights illuminate ground" checked?  If you do and the landing lights still do not illuminate the ground, then I would suspect your spotlight.bmp texture file is at fault.

[dotmicron 0]

14 hours ago, w6kd said:

CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas

Yeah, I should have clarified my wording further. That's not what I meant to convey, sorry! (I'm also not using DirectX 10 preview)

14 hours ago, charliearon said:

If you jump to an outside view, looking at the nose of your aircraft,   are your landing lights on?  Can you show a screenshot of what you see?

Affirmative.

24 minutes ago, stans said:

In your FSX settings do you have "Landing lights illuminate ground" checked?

I do, yes.

14 hours ago, charliearon said:

Possibly something corrupted the spotlight.bmp or removed it.

Where is this located? In the effects directory?

 

Cheers all for the input, it's much appreciated! 🙂

[charliearon 3,017]

Spotlight.bmp is in FSX/Textures folder.

[vc10man 732]

From that image, as it looks like a 757-200, the landing lights are clearly visible. Nose and wing mounted. So, no lack of landing lights. I have the same in my CS757-200 but, the taxiway is well-illuminated. So, fault elsewhere?

[charliearon 3,017]

Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings?

[vc10man 732]

1 hour ago, charliearon said:

Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings?

Is that for the OP, Charlie?

[charliearon 3,017]

1 hour ago, vc10man said:

Is that for the OP, Charlie?

That's who I'm dealing with.

[dotmicron 0]

3 hours ago, charliearon said:

Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings?

Yep.

4 hours ago, charliearon said:

Spotlight.bmp is in FSX/Textures folder.

Can confirm, it's present, and looks fine.

https://www.dotmicron.com/media/spotlight.bmp

3 hours ago, vc10man said:

I have the same in my CS757-200 but, the taxiway is well-illuminated. So, fault elsewhere?

That's what I was getting at.

[vc10man 732]

1 hour ago, charliearon said:

That's who I'm dealing with.

Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it was in response to my observation of the lights being on.

[charliearon 3,017]

There is a setting in FSX/Realism that says "pilot controls landing light".  Is that also checked?