Night Ops

[airplanedoktor]

Hi All,

Just wanted to get a general sense of how many observe ai at night, or how important a correct light map is. More specifically if the light map for formation lights was off by a bit, how distracting would that be?

Thanks,

Darren

[Joseph29]

I don't fly much at night, but when I do I like to have to correct light maps and stuff on the AI.

[airplanedoktor]

This probably only applies to the C-17 in P3D at the moment, as there is a lua script for the light map in Matrix. The issue is that the formation lights on the aircraft itself are in the wrong position. For example, the ones on the vertical stab are on the rudder according to paint kit, and light map. Not so in reality.

I have created a new light map for my repaint, however, pushing that into P3D will affect the other 100+ repaints. I think I'm left with the choice of having it incorrect on the 5 aircraft I've done at the moment, or affecting the world wide fleet until they get updated textures. Unless there is some way of disabling the lua script for the 5 aircraft, I think I've answered my own question...better to have 5 anamolies than 100 +.

Darren

[Firebird]

Are you saying that some C-17s need a different lightmap to the majority, or that the slimes are wrong for all.

If so which ones?

[gavinc]

Darren,
2 possible solutions
1) If you include the lightmap in the texture folder that will override the default lightmap that is called from the main P3D texture folder.

2) I can re-compile you a specific C-17 model that calls a different lua script if that is what is needed.

Gavin