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the PMDG 744 uses wing flex, so your nav lights etc will not display correctly. I think the lights are in the model so one way of possibly correcting it is to find the original PMDG effects and replace those files with renamed shockwave ones (renamed to mimic originals i mean).

think that's right...

I have done the renaming in the effects folder and it works almost perfectly, however, the intensity is too low. Any way to fix this. I made a post in the pmdg forums and am waiting on a reply.
If anyone here knows how to modify the aircraft.cfg to make the lights more intense, please let me know.
Goran

The development guys at PMDG will not support mods of any kind.
Looks like we're stuck with the normal PMDG lights.
Renaming the shockwave lights to the PMDG lights does not fix the lighting. I see a ton of programming of lights to get this to work properly.
Goran

PMDG appears to control their taxi lights a bit different than the other developers. This is typical of an innovative developer, and we certainly don't hold this against them.


For the redux package, we made custom lights for the stock Microsoft 747. This means a dual-flare nose, left wing, and right wing lights. The flares are offset to match the taper of the leading edge of the wing. These lights seem to drop right into the PMDG well, and they look quite nice.

The strobes and nav lights on the wing tips are installed in the PMDG model, so these entries should not be in the aircraft.cfg - leave these stock. The Shockwave Redux lighting system adds a nice flare to all lights when viewed from a distance, so even stock lights will receive some benefit.

I just updated the FS9 entry in the database.

PMDG 747-400
AIRCRAFT.CFG
[LIGHTS]
light.0 = 3, -225.90, 0.30, 4.72, fx_navwhih, //Position Aft
light.1 = 3, -225.90,-0.30, 4.72, fx_navwhih, //Position Aft
light.2 = 1, -33.596, 0.00, 14.868, fx_shockwave_beacon_rotating_red, //Beacon Top
light.3 = 1, -86.149, 0.00,-11.735, fx_shockwave_beacon_rotating_red, //Beacon Bottom
light.4 = 9, -210.149, 8.00, 35.117, fx_pmdg744_logo, //Logo Right
light.5 = 9, -210.149, -8.00, 35.117, fx_pmdg744_logo, //Logo Left
light.6 = 6,-21.7, 0,-11.5, fx_shockwave_landing_light_747_nose //Landing nose
light.7 = 5,-77.0,19,-3.7, fx_shockwave_landing_light_747_rw //Landing right wing
light.8 = 5,-76.0,-19.0,-3.7, fx_shockwave_landing_light_747_lw /Landing left wing
light.9 = 2, -225.52, 0.00, 4.20, fx_shockwave_strobe_l,//Strobe Aft

PANEL.CFG
[VCockpit01]
gauge20=shockwave_lights!SW Lights, 1,1,1,1 //shockwave light
gauge21=shockwave_lights!SW Lights_taxi_gear, 1,1,1,1 //shockwave light

NOTE:
To get the nose gear mounted lights to go off when the gear is raised, you will need to toggle the taxi light switch in the cockpit (panel SHIFT-2, at the bottom). Otherwise the taxi lights mounted on the nose gear will blink when the gear is raised.

Thanks for that Scott at least we can get some benefit from the lights, I did get the landing lights blinking once the gear was stowed so you've answered that one as well.

Scott.