Aircraft model light problems.

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Paolo Lao
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Aircraft model light problems.

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Hi Mate's, has anyone here encountered a problem when putting too much lights & or editing them & suddenly wont work?
I just added some VC cabin lights to Milton's dehavilland 7, then 2 tail lights wont work, one nav & strobe at the very rear end,. Any Ideas on whats causing this? electrical maybe :$

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Hi,

There are a maximum of 18 lights allowed in that section (as I remember).

Also, make sure your hardware lights slider is all the way to the right.

Hope this helps,
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Also, make sure your entries are consecutive - light.0 =, light.1 = etc. Easily overlooked when adding more lights.

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Re: Aircraft model light problems.

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Thanks Tom & Graham, will do a check,. My hardware render is set to max & Using ACM to put them in, I have 20 entries on the lights section though :-(

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Hi Guys

in my experience FS9 & FSX never seems to show more than 8 lights in the sim

i mean all at the same time.

i might not be right but thats all i get.

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Rick

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Re: Aircraft model light problems.

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With some of the more complicated aircraft I definitely see light effects "come and go" - this could be related to your perceived limit, Rick - good catch.
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