New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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CaptKornDog
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New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by CaptKornDog »

Hello,

Migrating my sim to a newly installed P3Dv5.1 Professional build, and just installed my C172 Professional product. Turning glareshield and pedestal flood lighting on full, is this the "normal" amount of brightness? I have attempted multiple uninstall/reinstalls as well, including turning off/on enhanced atmospherics, HDR, dynamic reflections, and dynamic lighting. Behavior seen in both normal and optimized lighting via the C172 Configurator. The panel was far brighter in v4. Gauge lighting appears to be normal. C182 seems to be much brighter and what I would expect in v5. Thanks.

C172 pedestal and glareshield light full bright, dome and gauge lights off:

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C172 pedestal, glareshield, dome lights full bright; gauge lights off:

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C182 pedestal and glareshield lights full bright, dome and gauge lights off:

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Thank you.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by Nick - A2A »

Hello CaptKornDog,

Thanks for the post. P3Dv5 has proved to be a bit of a moving target since its release in terms of the dynamic lighting system (and lighting overall) with quite a few updates to the platform in this regard. We've made quite a few changes to the lighting effects across the fleet to try and keep up with the hotfixes, but I agree that the 172 glare shield and pedestal lighting could be a bit brighter under P3D v5.1.12.26829.

I've made some tweaks to the relevant lighting effects, so you (or anyone else) are welcome to give them a try. Just download the zip file linked below and place its contents in the "Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\A2A\Effects" folder (I recommend you back up the originals).

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgyGt4GF6GKngeZ6xTj ... A?e=Cw7fU0

Once we're confident that the lighting in P3Dv5 is a bit more stable, we should be able to make any such updates more official, but in the meantime, hopefully this will help.

Cheers,
Nick
A2A Simulations Inc.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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Nick - A2A wrote: 23 Jan 2021, 07:29 Hello CaptKornDog,

Thanks for the post. P3Dv5 has proved to be a bit of a moving target since its release in terms of the dynamic lighting system (and lighting overall) with quite a few updates to the platform in this regard. We've made quite a few changes to the lighting effects across the fleet to try and keep up with the hotfixes, but I agree that the 172 glare shield and pedestal lighting could be a bit brighter under P3D v5.1.12.26829.

I've made some tweaks to the relevant lighting effects, so you (or anyone else) are welcome to give them a try. Just download the zip file linked below and place its contents in the "Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\A2A\Effects" folder (I recommend you back up the originals).

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgyGt4GF6GKngeZ6xTj ... A?e=Cw7fU0

Once we're confident that the lighting in P3Dv5 is a bit more stable, we should be able to make any such updates more official, but in the meantime, hopefully this will help.

Cheers,
Nick
For what it's worth:

I do not have an Documents\Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\A2A\ folder (simply isn't an A2A folder under Prepar3D v5 Add-ons\). Additionally, in my selected A2A installation path folder under A2A\Effects, I do not have any of those C172 effects (or C182 for that matter), just Comanche and Cherokee effects.

Is there another place to install these?

Thanks.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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If you've used a custom installation path, then the "A2A\effects" folder is where all the *.fx files should be located.

From looking at your screenshots, the effects files are being loaded for the 172 and 182. Can you also see the external lights such as nav lights and strobes when these aircraft are loaded?

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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Nick - A2A wrote: 23 Jan 2021, 11:13 Can you also see the external lights such as nav lights and strobes when these aircraft are loaded?
No. Yet another reinstall of both the C172 and C182 does not yield any .fx files.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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CaptKornDog wrote: 24 Jan 2021, 00:54 No. Yet another reinstall of both the C172 and C182 does not yield any .fx files.
This is odd because although no C172 effects are visible in that folder, at least some of the effects files are clearly being loaded, for example the landing light and the glare shield and pedestal lights. Please can you confirm if you're installing via our own standalone installer or with Orbx Central and if it's the former, what the filename of the installer you're using?

Also, are you using any third party apps which organise flight sim add-ons?

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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Nick - A2A wrote: 24 Jan 2021, 04:49 This is odd because although no C172 effects are visible in that folder, at least some of the effects files are clearly being loaded, for example the landing light and the glare shield and pedestal lights. Please can you confirm if you're installing via our own standalone installer or with Orbx Central and if it's the former, what the filename of the installer you're using?
Installers from PC Aviator purchase.

C172 P3Dv5 Professional.exe
C182 P3Dv5 Professional.exe
Also, are you using any third party apps which organise flight sim add-ons?
No.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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Okay, thanks for confirming. When you install the C172 and C182, do the installers automatically detect the existing install path for your A2A add-ons?

Also, can you confirm if you have any third-party antivirus software running. I know some programs like Bitdefender can be very aggressive about deleting files they don't like.

In any case, it's not possible for the C172 landing light to show as in your picture if the relevant effect files aren't present. Please can you temporarily enable content error logging in P3Dv5 (this option is on the "application" settings page and then load the Accu-Sim 172 and exit P3D, You should get a listing of any missing files in a "ContentErrors.txt" file in "Documents\Prepar3D v5 Files". Please can you post the contents of this file here.

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

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Nick - A2A wrote: 24 Jan 2021, 12:14 Okay, thanks for confirming. When you install the C172 and C182, do the installers automatically detect the existing install path for your A2A add-ons?
Yes.
Also, can you confirm if you have any third-party antivirus software running. I know some programs like Bitdefender can be very aggressive about deleting files they don't like.
Disabled during installation, A2A files excluded from scans.
In any case, it's not possible for the C172 landing light to show as in your picture if the relevant effect files aren't present. Please can you temporarily enable content error logging in P3Dv5 (this option is on the "application" settings page and then load the Accu-Sim 172 and exit P3D, You should get a listing of any missing files in a "ContentErrors.txt" file in "Documents\Prepar3D v5 Files". Please can you post the contents of this file here.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by Nick - A2A »

Thanks for that. Interestingly some of the files are clearly being loaded from somewhere, including the ones I included in the zip file above, so the real mystery is, how is your P3Dv5 installation configured to have relocated these files?

Please could you let us know the name of any P3Dv5 utilities which you have installed and also can you confirm the full path path where you've installed your A2A fleet?

It may also help if you can post the contents of the "add-on.xml" file for your A2A aircraft. This is located in the root folder of wherever you installed them. Something modifying this xml file so it's pointing to a new location for the effects is the only explanation that comes to mind here.

Cheers,
Nick
A2A Simulations Inc.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by CaptKornDog »

Nick - A2A wrote: 24 Jan 2021, 13:23 Thanks for that. Interestingly some of the files are clearly being loaded from somewhere, including the ones I included in the zip file above, so the real mystery is, how is your P3Dv5 installation configured to have relocated these files?

Please could you let us know the name of any P3Dv5 utilities which you have installed and also can you confirm the full path path where you've installed your A2A fleet?
A2A path is: G:\A2A
It may also help if you can post the contents of the "add-on.xml" file for your A2A aircraft. This is located in the root folder of wherever you installed them. Something modifying this xml file so it's pointing to a new location for the effects is the only explanation that comes to mind here.

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<SimBase.Document Type="AddOnXml" version="4,0" id="add-on">
    <AddOn.Name>A2A</AddOn.Name>
    <AddOn.Description>Aircraft by A2A Simulations Inc.</AddOn.Description>
    <AddOn.Component>
        <Category>Effects</Category>
        <Path>Effects</Path>
    </AddOn.Component>
    <AddOn.Component>
        <Category>Fonts</Category>
        <Path>Fonts</Path>
    </AddOn.Component>
    <AddOn.Component>
        <Category>Gauges</Category>
        <Path>Gauges</Path>
    </AddOn.Component>
    <AddOn.Component>
        <Category>Scripts</Category>
        <Path>Scripts</Path>
    </AddOn.Component>
    <AddOn.Component>
        <Category>SimObjects</Category>
        <Path>SimObjects\Airplanes</Path>
    </AddOn.Component>
</SimBase.Document> 
Utilities installed are FSUIPC, ActiveSky P3D, ChasePlane, Reality XP GTN 750, SODE, GSX v2, GoFlight MCP Pro, and FLAI.

Installing the effect files above, with glareshield and pedestal lights turned up brightest yields the following screenshot. Not quite as bright as the C182 in v5, and far dimmer than the C172 previously in v4. Not sure why the top of the glareshield is glowing white either.

'Image

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by Nick - A2A »

The "add-on.xml" isn't the culprit CaptKornDog. However, one thing I do notice is that the missing effects are the ones that were updated with the updater after release. This makes me think it's some software which is blocking the updater and quarantining any files it write to. Bitdefender is the only software I've known to silently delete files in this way, but please can you let us know which AV suite you're running?

The only other explanation I can think of would be something like you manually moving the installation folder onto another drive so that the file paths in Prepae3D's add-ons.cfg files are incorrect. However, even this wouldn't really explain the issue.

Anyway, the glare shield lighting should look a bit brighter than in your last screenshot if the modified files are loaded, but this will depend on your lighting settings in P3D. ANd for your final point, the underside of the glare shield is a basically a translucent plastic cover for the lights inside; that's why it glows.

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by CaptKornDog »

Nick - A2A wrote: 24 Jan 2021, 14:09 please can you let us know which AV suite you're running?
Norton Security.

Is there a way to re-download just the 172/182 effects files from the installer somewhere? Or I guess I can find another computer that doesn't have any P3D installed on it and copy those over? Or another option I guess, make the effects from above brighter? If I can somehow mirror the existing glareshield and pedestal lights on the 182, I suppose that's the best I can currently do.

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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by Nick - A2A »

To be honest, the only thing I can recommend is reinstalling since there are clearly some files missing. However, it may be worth clicking "cancel" when the installer offers to update the aircraft with the latest files at the end. Then check to see if all the C172 effects files are present (there should be around 50) in "G:\A2A\Effects" before running the updater via its shortcut in the Start Menu.

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: New P3Dv5 Install - Glareshield/Pedestal Lighting

Post by CaptKornDog »

Nick - A2A wrote: 25 Jan 2021, 04:54 To be honest, the only thing I can recommend is reinstalling since there are clearly some files missing. However, it may be worth clicking "cancel" when the installer offers to update the aircraft with the latest files at the end. Then check to see if all the C172 effects files are present (there should be around 50) in "G:\A2A\Effects" before running the updater via its shortcut in the Start Menu.
Hmm, OK. Thanks.

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