Attach Lights

[JakesF14]

Maybe someone can tell me, I want to add navigation lights to my model, and by using the MAX Script Attachpoint tool I add the NAVRED effect to the light part in the model, but when I try to export the model the export fails

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[Fr. Bill]

That is the FS9 Attachpoint tool. It will not work for aircraft at all!

FSX is the only sim that will allow attachpoints in aircraft models.

[JakesF14]

That is the FS9 Attachpoint tool. It will not work for aircraft at all!

FSX is the only sim that will allow attachpoints in aircraft models.

Thank you ,but how do I attach my nav lights to the swing wings? Do i have to use the FSXsdk,and will it work in fs9?

[Felix/FFDS]

For FS9, you give a small polygon a material name, LIGHT_NAV_RED (the important thing is the "LIGHT_NAV" prefix) and the diffuse color is the light's color.

Per the FS9 Makemdl SDK document *Material Names"

LIGHT_NAV: A navigation point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.

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As to your second question, no, you cannot compile an aircraft with the FSX SDK and have it work in FS9.

[JakesF14]

Thank you very much Felix, it is much appreciated.