This here thingy on the wing is supposed to be a landing light. Could someone help me out with a recommendation for colors to make it look like glass or plastic? RGB numbers would be the best thing for me to work with. I am using PSP7 and FSDS2. Could I use a gradient to make it look like it has reflections?Thanks,John Woodward

Why don't you just cut it away and make it have reflective transparent texture, just like we do with windows?Mikko http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/mmniemi/shots/banger.gif

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Just finished cutting the part out. I made a reflective texture using the same color shown, but it doesn't look very good. There might be some planes in my collection with wing lights, so I will look through and see what color they are using.P.S., Mikko- I am also looking for a prop texture that has the decal on it, or just the decal that I can cut and paste. Do you know where I can get one?John Woodward

Try not using a texture at all. Instead, edit the material of the light to make it transparent. Try using a material colour of grey with an alpha of 127 - this would be applies to the part you cut out of the wing, NOT the wing itself. This is what I did, and then I made the actual lights (light.landing, light.taxi) behind the transparent cover that I had cut out from the wing.the two lights, (light.landing, light.taxi) I gave a colour of whitish and an emissive power of 255, so they obviously provide the actual lighting when you turn those lights on. The cover-part that I cut out from the wing does nothing, except remain transparent.The nav light and strobe light I renamed and I do not use these names in FSDS2. Instead, I made these parts white/red/green and transparent so in daytime you can see it , and it sort of looks like glass but it does not light up. For the actual lighting of these parts, I just used the light section in the aircraft.cfg file.- Martin

Martin,Thanks for the post. This is good information and now I know where to start.John Woodward