Landing lights illuminating terrain

[codered]

I thought I got the file at Avsim, but it turns out it is at www.flightsim.com.   The name is spot2004.zip by Brian Stark.  It is titled Spotlight 2004 Enhancement.

Enjoy!  It really taught me a lot about how to edit the landing light to get the best effect.

[JBaymore]

codered,

That information would be great stuff for anyone who wants to fly Search and Rescue helicopters or police helicopters.  Bet you could modify a "landing light" into a real search beam.

best,

................john

[JW49]

SaVas, or John:  I've installed the file SaVas recommended about a week ago, (this is the file isn't it, fs2k4_ll.zip ?) and agree that it is a great improvement over the default.  But maybe one of you, alot more experienced than I, could tell me exactly where I am suppossed to paste in these lines regarding runway lights:  

RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=1.0
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=1.3
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=1.25
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=1.4

I don't understand it as written in the read-me file.  Any help greatly appreciated..........Jerry

[Lysander77]

Many thanks indeed.  I'll track the file down now and enjoy the lessons to be learned.
                              With gratitude,
                                       Lysander77

[Chris_F]

Okay, you've convinced me to give the addons a try.  The landing lights in particular suck.  I don't use them preferring instead to taxi by moonlight as the default is just too bright.

[codered]

[quote]SaVas, or John:

[jordonj]

Ask and ye shall receive



Asynchronous strobes.

And as for the stars I'm off to get that one!  Anything else for the moon (and don't get cheeky on me either)

[Politically Incorrect]

Those lines of text are edited in the FS9.cfg file.  This file can be found in your documents and settings folder (most likely no your C: drive).  Then there should be a folder representing your name, computers name maybe...  inside that is a folder called application data, and inside that is a micorsoft folder, and inside that is
a FS9 folder, and inside that there should be your FS9.cfg.  Yeah, I know it is a long way to go, but that is where you will edit those lines.

I keep a back up of this file incase I ever want to go back and start over from the defaults.

The read me states to place them in the Config. under [DISPLAY].
Problem is there are three different areas in the Config. that are listed [DISPLAY].
Does it matter which one you paste these under?

[codered]

When you paste the lines you will be replaceing the text that already exists.