Alternative night lighting colours

[Dobermann]

Hi Simmers,   Last year I downloaded a program that enabled me to change the panel colours from default to either blue, green, red, etc. unfortunately its got lost, can anybody suggest where I can locate it again? I thank you in anticipation.   Dobermann

[aeroart]

If you can't find the program, you might try to adjust the colors yourself. They're controlled in a section named [COLOR] in the panel.cfg file. Here's an example:

[COLOR]
Day=255,255,255
Night=225,125,125
Luminous=250,200,175

"Night" is for the overall lighting. "Luminous" is for the gauge faces. 255 is the maximum value, 0 (zero) is the minimum.

I suggest you save a copy of the panel.cfg file as, say, panel-original.cfg, just in case. You should also save the last values like this:

Night=175,100,100 //225,125,125.

The values following the double-slashes are ignored by the program, but will let you go back to the earlier values if you don't like your latest.

I've found most of the default lighting for night flying is way too bright. You could play a night ball game in the cockpit.

Art

[Opa]

[quote]Hi Simmers,

[aeroart]

By the way, each of three numbers controls red, green, and blue, respectively.

Here's a digital color guide I just found on the web:

http://web.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html

The third column lists the the RGB values.

Art

[aeroart]

I was interested in what David's tutorial had to say. There's one available at FltSim.com. The file name is: ckpl_tut.zip

Art

[Opa]

I was interested in what David's tutorial had to say. There's one available at FltSim.com. The file name is: ckpl_tut.zip

Art

That is the same one which I recently uploaded to the library here.  The name is different as at the time I uploaded it there, Flightsim only could use the old DOS 8 characters plus an extension when naming a file.

[Dobermann]

Just what I was looking for "Opa", thankyou for your rapid response, and to you Art for the info. what we do without guys like you?   

Dobermann

[patchz]

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

[Opa]

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

[patchz]

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

Ok thanks. The only thing I've tried is your way. It works for the 2D but not the VC. At this point, I don't have any idea what else to try.

[Daube]

It seems to me that to create some lighting in the VC, you just have to add an appropriate light effect in the [lights] section of the aircraft.cfg (with correct coordinates, of course).

[Opa]

I realize this is the FS9 thread, but is there a way to do it in for the VC in FSX David?

Sorry - cannot answer that - I have not made any experiments along those lines.

If you do, please let us know the results.

Ok thanks. The only thing I've tried is your way. It works for the 2D but not the VC. At this point, I don't have any idea what else to try.

Check your PM's (Personal Messages)

[tgibson]

Or the author provides _L textures in the plane's texture folder to light the VC textures.