Panel/Gauge design

[-MaRRe-]

Hello all,

I am new to the panel buisiness. Here's what I'm trying to do.

I have a panel with a switch for wing lights that is not used. I want to add wing light effects to the switch. I have seen in the panel.cfg that the wing light gauge is in there. How can I connect the effect to the gauge so I have working wing lights??

Please point me in the right direction! I tried some stuff but nothing seems to work.

Thanks!  ;)

[Brett_Henderson]

The switch will determine what lights can be used (nav, strobe, beacon, recogintion, taxi, landing)..

Then.. you can position the light effect in the aircraft.cfg file.


This paragraph from a 172 for example..(make a backup before experimenting):

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit      

[commoner]

...Hi...Brett has it right.....here's mine from my Cessna 310 which as you can see has all types of lights.....just make up your own set up from these examples.......you can have your nav lights flashing by making a strobe effect at the same coordinate as the light and even add landing lights as I have.........I had a lot of fun making this set up and learned  a lot doing it........enjoy...........commoner

[LIGHTS]
//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
//cockpit-lighting changed by Horst Paetzold

light.0 = 3,  5.10, -17.41,  1.5, fx_navred ,
light.1 = 3,  5.10,  17.41,  1.5, fx_navgre ,
light.2 = 3, -16.33,   0.00,  1.0, fx_navwhi ,
light.3 = 2,  5.10, -17.41,  1.5, fx_strobe ,
light.4 = 2,  5.10,  17.41,  1.5, fx_strobe ,
light.5 = 1, -15.28,   0.00,  7.57, fx_beacon ,
light.6 = 2,  -16.33,   0.00, 1.0, fx_strobe ,
light.7 = 4,  0.60,   0.70,  1.20, fx_vclightC310 ,
light.8 = 4,  0.00,   -0.20,  1.00, fx_vclightC310 ,
light.9 = 3, -15.28,   0.00,  7.57, fx_navred ,
light.10 = 3, 3.50, 0.00, -1.00, fx_navred ,
light.11 = 1,  3.50,   0.00, -1.00, fx_beacon ,
light.12 = 5, 9.10,    0.00,  -0.95, fx_landing ,

[-MaRRe-]

Hmm thats what i tried.
Thing is that one switch has 2 sides. Both are wing lights but one is ground wing lights and the other is normal wing lights. How does that work then?
I have to make the light effects from scratch though. Any idea how for instance Level-D make the wing lights so cool?

Thx

[-MaRRe-]

Oh yeah forgot, the gauge is .gau (DC8_SW!) and it has several panel switches in that 1 gauge file...