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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Thorsten » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:17 pm

So, it occurs specifically with Rembrandt-capable planes when Rembrandt is off, not with non-Rembrandt-capable planes? Is is peculiar for Atmospheric Light Scattering, or show everywhere? Does it work correctly when Rembrandt is on?
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Gijs » Sun Mar 17, 2013 7:30 pm

Neilson wrote in Sun Mar 17, 2013 4:59 pm:I have this with any plane set up with Rembrant

I thought the issue was just with the light-cone hack and not with Rembrandt lights? Could you try the c172p to confirm that (it has Rembrandt lights, but no hacky light-cone)?
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Thorsten » Mon Mar 18, 2013 9:38 am

I admit to the same confusion as Gijs...
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby StuartC » Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:00 am

I replied to this 5 min ago, but my rteply vanished?

Anyhoo, I will do it again.

It appears it is the Rembrandt lighting causing issues while in non rembrandt mode with older Mac OS + FG 2.8 and better. On other OS set ups, the rembrandt lighting gets ignored when rembrandt is turned off, but not in this case. Both lighting modes are present and creating the weird effects.
I have updated the light map for the next Tornado update thats due, which Neilson has to test. This appears to have cured the issue but I will need to apply it to another aircraft to verify the result. I have no idea why the lightmap has cured the problem though.
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Neilson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:12 am

found it in this one 747-400 from the 2.10 plane list http://www.flightgear.org/download/airc ... ilterable/

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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Gijs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:16 am

Can you check the value of /sim/rendering/rembrandt/enabled?
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Neilson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:00 pm

This is what i got.

/sim/rendering/rembrandt/
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Gijs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:45 pm

That is really, really weird. The lights are only selected when /sim/rendering/rembrandt/enabled=true, but for some reason that doesn't seem to work on Mac...\

Could you try changing blocks like this in all Aircraft/747-400/Models/Lights files:
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<animation>
   <type>select</type>
   <condition>
      <property>/sim/rendering/rembrandt/enabled</property>
   </condition>
</animation>

into this:
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<animation>
   <type>select</type>
   <condition>
      <equals>
         <property>/sim/rendering/rembrandt/enabled</property>
         <value>true</value>
      </equals>
   </condition>
</animation>

It shouldn't make a difference, but maybe it does on Mac...
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Neilson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:11 pm

tried it, still got the exact same as the screen shots.

Added the bit to
beacon.xml light-cone.xml strobe.xml
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Gijs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:12 pm

And if you delete the complete light animation from those files?
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 <animation>
    <type>light</type>
    ....
</animation>
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Neilson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:46 pm

Did that and found out its not those files doing it.

Seems to be light-green.xml light-logo.xml light-red.xml

I added this below too them files and it work turning off rembrant lights,
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<animation>
   <type>select</type>
   <condition>
      <property>/sim/rendering/rembrandt/enabled</property>
   </condition>
</animation>


all though i have no lights on the 747 with Rembrant off, its a lot beter now
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Gijs » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:50 pm

Argh, that's a big mistake on my side. I'll fix it in Git. Thanks for noticing!
But it doesn't explain why other aircraft have the same issue, like the SU-37?
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Re: Landing lights showing up as near-solid white cones

Postby Neilson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:58 pm

just applied it to the SU-37 remb light files and it works :)

Nee to get someone to test it on a windows FG with rembrant

Big thank you very much :)
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