baksie Posted February 25 Posted February 25 Are there street light or light post that can be used in night ops so you can see something on the airfield ? Only found 1 and it is very weak light. Any suggestions ? Intel I7-10700K, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe, MSI Z490 ACE, RAM:64GB DDR4 3600, WIN 10-64, 1080Ti Waiting on a good RTX AH-64D|AV-88|A10CII|F15E|F16CM|FA18C|F14B|NV|PG|Syria|Synia
Priest Posted February 25 Posted February 25 Massun92's asset pack had a bunch of stuff with lights but most of those were cut from the official DCS version. Maybe for performance reasons, I'm not sure why really. You might still be able to get all the "lit" versions from his pack. Which one are you using now? In DCS there's "M92 NF-2 LightOn" which works ok I think, but still not super bright. 1
baksie Posted February 25 Author Posted February 25 Yep that is the one that I tried. Very Weak. VPC ones don't work anymore either. Intel I7-10700K, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe, MSI Z490 ACE, RAM:64GB DDR4 3600, WIN 10-64, 1080Ti Waiting on a good RTX AH-64D|AV-88|A10CII|F15E|F16CM|FA18C|F14B|NV|PG|Syria|Synia
cfrag Posted February 26 Posted February 26 I usually place a couple of Tigrs (the car) on the ground. They have sufficiently bright lights for most uses. They simply look silly in others. 3
rob10 Posted February 27 Posted February 27 On 2/25/2025 at 7:34 AM, baksie said: Yep that is the one that I tried. Very Weak. VPC ones don't work anymore either. Easy fix for VPC not working (I'm assuming you're getting a fake omnil ight error). Navigate to: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Bazar\shaders\model Duplicate both: fake_omni_lights2.fx and fake_spot_lights2.fx Rename the duplicates: fake_omni_lights.fx and fake_spot_lights.fx respectively. 1
VRextremo Posted February 27 Posted February 27 Appreciate this, was also struggling with seeing the airfield at points. Will test your fix now and get back if it works!
AKULA_OPTIMUS Posted February 27 Posted February 27 16 hours ago, cfrag said: I usually place a couple of Tigrs (the car) on the ground. They have sufficiently bright lights for most uses. They simply look silly in others. Those Tigrs are great to place in certain positions and illuminate or mark things, but they dont work anymore. In fact, no ground vehicle cast any light right now. Is that a bug?? Cause I hope so, so it gets fixed eventually.
razo+r Posted February 27 Posted February 27 36 minutes ago, AKULA_OPTIMUS said: Those Tigrs are great to place in certain positions and illuminate or mark things, but they dont work anymore. In fact, no ground vehicle cast any light right now. Is that a bug?? Cause I hope so, so it gets fixed eventually. Seems to be the case. Their lights still turn on but they don't cast any actual light. But in the meantime use some of Massun's Flood lights that ED has implemented into the game. Those work. 1 1
baksie Posted March 27 Author Posted March 27 I found some lights that work great. will let you know which ones I used once I have time to log on. 1 Intel I7-10700K, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe, MSI Z490 ACE, RAM:64GB DDR4 3600, WIN 10-64, 1080Ti Waiting on a good RTX AH-64D|AV-88|A10CII|F15E|F16CM|FA18C|F14B|NV|PG|Syria|Synia
Vic Posted April 1 Posted April 1 Is it possible to get these VPC lights to work? Would be nice for landing at night, it's pitch black on that platform at night. I tried the fix in this thread by renaming .fx files, but it didn't work.
Rudel_chw Posted April 1 Posted April 1 On 2/25/2025 at 9:34 AM, baksie said: VPC ones don't work anymore either. they work for me, just be sure to use as ground unit and not as static object 13 minutes ago, Vic said: Is it possible to get these VPC lights to work? maybe you are setting them up as static objects, the lights work when used as ground units type fortification For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Vic Posted April 1 Posted April 1 Thanks, Rudel_chw that defiantly worked, now my only problem is editor won't let me put a ground unit on the floating dock cuz it's like a ship. It let me put a static on there but not a ground unit. In the pic I put them on shore/ground and they worked! Nice!! Thanks
Vic Posted April 2 Posted April 2 I ended up putting 4 generator flood lights on shore and made it a full moon night. It helps a lot. I seen there was a tool called DML toolbox that sounds like I could spawn the generator lights on the float barge which would be perfect. Just gotta figure out how to use it. I will have to find the thread that talks about this. I know nothing about map making, just basic stuff. One of my problems with the DML toolbox is I don't even know where to put the .lua files so the mission editor reads them lol or what scripts I need to spawn the ground objects/lights onto the ship/barge More pics:
Vic Posted April 2 Posted April 2 Got it to work. Ground unit light spawned on a ship unit, thanks to the DML Toolbox. Very cool! 2
MAXsenna Posted April 3 Posted April 3 15 hours ago, Vic said: Got it to work. Ground unit light spawned on a ship unit, thanks to the DML Toolbox. Very cool! That's cool! @cfrag is the creator of DML Toolbox, and it has its own thread where he's very helpful if you have any other questions!
Vic Posted April 4 Posted April 4 Just made new texture to try to make the generators look like US army stuff, even though I think there was never that type. At least they blend in better than the original fancy ones.
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