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Need some help with an aircraft config file

Postby -SWCowboy. » Wed May 02, 2007 1:51 pm

Hi all!

I'm trying to understand why the wingtip lights on this plane are floating out of place. I had it made for my site and I'd like to fix the lighting placement in the HLP Cowboy but I don't understand the config file yet to do it on my own.

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit        
light.0 = 3,  -2.62, -8.28, -0.65, fx_navred
light.1 = 3,  -2.62,  8.28, -0.65, fx_navgre
light.2 = 2,  -2.752, -8.28, -0.65, fx_strobe
light.3 = 2,  -2.752,  8.28, -0.65, fx_strobe
light.4 = 4,  -6.62,   0.00, 8.50, fx_vclight

I imagine this is what I need to adjust, I just don't know what to mess with here. What do these numbers mean? They look to be positional axis numbers, so do I just need to adjust them?

Hotlinks to zip files on my site protect my ZIP files, but this triplane is at the bottom of this page:
http://www.fsinnovation.net/fs2004/fs2004props1.php

Thanks for your time!
-SWC.
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Re: Need some help with an aircraft config file

Postby microlight » Wed May 02, 2007 2:37 pm

The format is:

light.X=switch_number (as in the list in your example), longitudinal_distance, lateral_distance, vertical distance, effects_name

The distances are in feet from the model's reference datum (specified in the [weight_and_balance] section of the aircraft.cfg file), which is usually quarter wing chord, centeline, waterline. Change the numbers to move them until they're where they need to be.

Can be a slow painstaking process!

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Re: Need some help with an aircraft config file

Postby -SWCowboy. » Sun May 06, 2007 10:54 am

Alright I'll give that a shot, thanks!
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