Cockpit Light

[Lex2Limit]

Hello Volks,

I'm on the work to make Cockpit Lights  Visible in 3rd and 1st Perspective. Like GKABS A-6 Mods.

So how i can change the Light Source to invisible?

Here some screenies from a F-4J...

[Lex2Limit]

I possitioning the Light Source a little bit in front of the cockpit Flight sticks, but there is a red Lightpulp like a Trigger Fireing.

i don't want to see the "Light pulp"!

And how do change this Values the light source?

[PilotLight]
SystemType=LIGHT
Color=0.90,0.20,0.00
Brightness=0.03
Position=0.0,6.800,0.230
LightSrcOffset=0.0,0.1,0.1
LightSrcRange=0.5
CanFlash=FALSE

[CoPilotLight]
SystemType=LIGHT
Color=0.90,0.20,0.00
Brightness=0.03
Position=0.0,5.350,0.350
LightSrcOffset=0.0,0.1,0.1
LightSrcRange=0.5
CanFlash=FALSE

Edited December 3, 2025 by Lex2Limit

[+yakarov79]

A-6 is not using a light source via SystemType=Light. It is an emitter.

Vortex to be precise. Guuruu made this for Tornado and forced us to use it as often as possible. I put this into many data.ini already.

example:

[AircraftData]
.....................

.....................

.....................

Component[011]=
Component[012]=PilotCabin_light

 

[PilotCabin_light]
ParentComponentName=Fuselage
ShowFromCockpit=TRUE
HasVortexEmitter=TRUE
VortexEmitterName=RedCABINLight_1m_Emitter
VortexPosition=0, 6.83, 0.46 <--- external view, somewhere in cockpit
VortexG=-5

and into the Effects folder:

RedCABINLight_1m_Emitter.rar

 

How it works

day

night (even if position lights are out)

 

 

[Lex2Limit]

OK. Nice! i woul'd try!

but how it works from Cockpit view? Can you turn itof and on?

Edited December 3, 2025 by Lex2Limit

[+yakarov79]

No... this shows only on the outside view. Inside, it is automatic via cockpit.ini entry. 

It is not ideal, but in my opinion, the best solution given the game engine limitations. 

[+yakarov79]

Not going to create a specific topic, so will just continue here, hoping someone can help.

Related to lights anyway.

Anyone, remember if it was possible to have position lights disappear with a certain node? I have in mind F-104 wing tip fuel tanks. When fuel tanks attached I have extra position lights on the wingtip tanks themselves (with data.ini source light) but when tanks are not loaded, I do not want that light...I want a small position light on the wingtip itself. I remember something like:

[LeftTankLight]
SystemType=LIGHT
Position=-3.674,-1.494,-0.527
.....
.....
.....
AttachedNodeName=TipTankR - is this correct? Is this working in reality? Or it was just my imagination from the past that I just suddenly brought back to life.

 

[+Sundowner]

I think I had it working on my CF-100 model ....and the B57's I did....."think" being the key word here.

[+yakarov79]

Thanks for the clues....going to snoop in your files now