F-4E Cockpit lighting Tutorial

[Devil 505]

I did a quick video on cockpit lighting because the rotary knobs and switches where in a few obscure locations.  Only question I have is for the side console lights.  There is a switch to adjust the floods between dim, medium, and bright, but no off switch for the floods.  Then there is a separate rotary knob to adjust the back lights on the side consoles.  It appears you cannot turn the floods off unless you completely turn the back lights off.  The video demonstrates below.  Curious if there is a way to turn the floods off on the side consoles or if this is the way it is in real life.  Not a deal breaker at all.  I just have to fly on dim with the floods and reduce the backlighting by turning it down to turn the floods down.

 

[Rudel_chw]

14 minutes ago, Devil 505 said:

There is a switch to adjust the floods between dim, medium, and bright, but no off switch for the floods.  Then there is a separate rotary knob to adjust the back lights on the side consoles.  It appears you cannot turn the floods off unless you completely turn the back lights off.  The video demonstrates below.  Curious if there is a way to turn the floods off on the side consoles or if this is the way it is in real life. 

Seems it was that way on the real aircraft, from the manual:

 

"Console lighting is comprised of a combination of edge lights and floodlights. Variation in edge light intensity is controlled by the console lights control knob on the cockpit lights contro! panel. The control knob has positions marked OFF and BRT, and controls all edge lighting on the left console, the right console, the pedestal panel, and the armament control panels on the instrument panel.

When the control knob is rotated out of the OFF detent, the console lights illuminate dim, and the console floodlights illuminate dim if the console floodlights switch is in the DIM position. The console floodlights switch, on the cockpit lights control panel, selects DIM, MED or BRT brilliance of the console floodlights.

The console floodlights are off only when the console floodlights‘switch is in the DIM position and the console lights control knob is in the OFF detent. "

[Zabuzard]

The lights are very funky in this plane and with the exception of what's marked as TODO in our manual, is accurate.

IIRC, TODO are the 6 knobs on the right wall and the fact that the Flight Ibstrunent Knob currently doesnt control the brightness of the 6 main instruments but they are instead linked to the instrument brightness rotary as well. And SAI lighting is missing.

This is mostly because splitting out 6 lighting animations individually per cockpit is a bit complex and would take the art guys quite some time afaik.

[Devil 505]

3 hours ago, Zabuzard said:

The lights are very funky in this plane and with the exception of what's marked as TODO in our manual, is accurate.

IIRC, TODO are the 6 knobs on the right wall and the fact that the Flight Ibstrunent Knob currently doesnt control the brightness of the 6 main instruments but they are instead linked to the instrument brightness rotary as well. And SAI lighting is missing.

This is mostly because splitting out 6 lighting animations individually per cockpit is a bit complex and would take the art guys quite some time afaik.

 

7 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

Seems it was that way on the real aircraft, from the manual:

Rockstars both of you! Thank you so much Heatblur for bringing the Phantom to DCS.  I grew up around the old girl as a kid and could not be happier with your product.  Thank you for the quick response.