A Hobbit wrote:This might not apply, but when you added the new panel did you, by chance, change an entry in the aircraft cfg? I have, in the past, screwed myself by not adding this or removing that and not having made a safety folder where I could keep a copy of the particular file I was messing with. The Strobe lights are usually found in the aircraft cfg file in the aircraft main folder... One memorable occasion of a screw up was about 18 years ago in the game CFS2, I messed with shyte and lost the guns on my favorite Corsair. It took me about 2 weeks to find and fix the problem...lol
That is the problem I did not change a single line in the aircraft cfg file.
what I have discovered is that there are five folders in side the Panel cfg file that have XML statements in them
I have tried putting all of the folders in the new panel folder but so far nothing
This is the entry inside the aircraft cfg file
[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing, 6=taxi, 7=recognition, 8=wing, 9=logo
light.0 = 8, 5.59, -30.23, 2.39, tdsb8_wing_light
light.1 = 8, 5.59, 30.23, 2.39, tdsb8_wing_light
light.2 = 6, 60.0000, 0,-1.96, tdsnose_gearwell
million dollar question which entry is for the strobe lights
from what I see there is no entry for the strobe lights
so that has to mean that the strobes are controlled some place else where is the question of the year
I only changed one folder and that was the panel folder so what happened.
If the types of lights are accurate the only lights here are two wing lights and 1 taxi light
judging from the first two entries these lights are on opposite sides of the aircraft which means they could be the lights that shine down the wing or on the wingtip
the tdsb8_wing_light is inside the effects folder and do have an .fx extension so these could be what is controlling the strobes
This is driving me nuts
I will eventually figure it out or go crazy in the effort
Now here is the kicker I checked the aircrft cfg file of some of my other aircraft that I know have working strobe lights and the crazy thing is I could not find one entry inside the file that actually had a line for the strobe lights
the line below is from a payware CRJ700/900 from Aerosoft
[lights]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
light.0 = 10, -22.00, 0.00, 4.00, fx_crj_vclight,
Now the strobes on this aircraft are very visible
So it is back to the original question where are the strobe lights controlled from?????????
Does anyone know