posted 05-25- 12:42 PM               

Warning, these pics aren't good and the lights are 10 times better in game

its a simple copy and paste to add to other planes (well and change the names in the dofID) Plus you can so rotating lights for newer planes or older planes that had them. I'm still working on blinking lights but i think that wont happen anytime soon. Nat and I are working on a few other nice Night light add-ons.

Oppss, almost forgot. I plan to make the lights a tad bigger to be seen a little better and you can turn the lights on and off when you want.

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posted 05-25- 12:44 PM               

Will you be able to turn them on and off?

hehe never mind, your edit and my post appeared at the same time

posted 05-25- 06:21 PM               

I could add it to guages but that would take a little longer to add since the gauges shouldn't be alphas since it makes the color wierd.

I thought about making the lights have LODs and make the lower ones get a little bigger so you can see them from far off but right now it's just 1 LOD (2 polys) for each light on the plane. You hit shift L and the lights come on, hit it again and they go off.

You can see them when your about 150 ft away but further then that and they aren't really noticable.

I could get guages a small green tint but it would take me longer then 5 mins to add it in each plane.

you know, i thought more people would like this, guess friday isn't a good day to post new things.

would also like to remind you they look way better in game then in those crappy pics.

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posted 05-25- 07:43 PM               

Great job!

I wondered if this was possible, but was afraid to ask fearing it wasn't.

Leave it to the Pro's to get this working!

posted 05-25- 08:23 PM               

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posted 05-25- 09:52 PM               

Now all we need are some runway lights and I wont be ploughing into the ground when landing in night missions..

posted 05-25- 09:57 PM               

Of course you realize you just delayed the release of the new Corsair AGAIN tho...

posted 05-26- 09:39 AM               

This is very cool. Can you have this for all planes for pp6.2 or will this be a pp7.0 type thing? I am sure the ai can't use these but can you think of a way like using a night time loadout or something?

Great work!
BTW, I agree, Friday afternoon before labor day is not a good time to post a new feature and get a lot of responses about it. We were all getting ready for the weekend or at happy our cause work let us out early.

posted 05-26- 11:51 AM               

The lights at one point started off and you had to turn them on. But after a few things that stopped happening and they started on. Then it hit me, If they start on and you have to turn them off for day missions that's not a big thing to do, And if they start on for night missions everyone online will see them. Also means AI planes will use them too. If they start off then it's really only something you (the player) will see.

It's the same way with the moving cockpits. If we had the cockpits start off openned then online games would see open cockpits (even if the plane has it closed but that goes back to the no DOF thing online).

About adding the lights to other planes? It's as simple as knowing where the lights are, what color lights that are, then using OPS to copy and paste the lights, then changing the name in the dof to match the plane. It would make it in 6.2 but there is a lot of planes and i just don't have any free time anymore.

posted 05-26- 02:05 PM               

I don't doubt you, but how the heck do those searchlights work then?

posted 05-27- 08:30 PM               

Those shots look cool!

Can these be added to the runways?

posted 05-27- 08:55 PM               

One thing I just thought though... Which side should be green and which red? LOL, just thinking we better sort that out since they are there to tell exactly that, I'f mine and your are different (which I think they are right now) then that would be silly.

Infact.. from checking some Mig images, mine are the wrong way round, Redlight on the left wing tip. I'll sort that out now.

OK, Runways...

I can add landing lights, but how should they be? Were they actualy lights or little fires? I ask because it was wartime and I aint that old lol Were they down the centre of the runway, or down the sides? If so, were they also Redlights on the left, green on the right, to show a pilot which way he should be landing?