Making lights work?

[jomaximus]

Does anyone have a tutorial on how to make lighting work in a track instead of it going to about 7:00 pm track time and it goes pitch black.

Ive read through this forum and have found nothing on how to actually make the lights give off light.Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[dosgraphix]

i think it has something to do with the gdb file?

But not 100% sure what the settings mean.

 

[Erwin Greven]

I've got that same "problem" now. I want to have the lighting poles give light for the night part of the race.

I searched on this forum with the tags: lightning, light.

 

[kohnboy]

Am also searching the forums on lighting.
For me- to begin with- where do you get lighting poles!?
Is that in one of the xpacks?

 

[Erwin Greven]

In the default pack you can find a working lighting pole object.

 

[Satangoss]

Probably you only have NightlightXXglow.gmt instances into your GDB file. For each Nightlight instance you must have a corresponding NightlightXX otherwise the lamps will be burning all the time.

Just open a GDB file from any ISI Track and look how they organize the instances NightLightglow and NightLight, very sure that you'll figure this issue out.

 

[mianiak]

I don't mean to hijack a thread, but I didn't know weather to make a new topic about this or ask in here. The thread is titled 'making lights work' so I presume this fits in here.

I have a problem with Start Lights, I have made my own start lights, but I can't get them to export as STARTLIGHT.GMT and STARTLIGHTGLOW.GMT.

I opened the Default Xpack in Xpacker and used it as a reference to set up mine. I have 2 models, STARTLIGHT.3ds and STARTLIGHTGLOW.3ds (Startlight.3ds consisted of the structure and the start lights). I got the light textures from Toban and put them on my model. I also tried with 3 modles splitting startlight.3ds into startlight_structure.3ds and startlight.3ds.

I'm confused as to how Brendon has done his, there are 3 separate models, but they all come together as one, I can't get that to happen. I have named all the materials in Xpacker (GRLTA, GRLTGLOWA, etc etc), I set keep material name, I set the animation. But no matter how much I set, I cant get them to come together as 1 single object and I cant get them to export with the correct names. Even if I rename the gmt files and edit the .scn, I still can't get them to work in game.

 

[RT1971]

Add both as objects, set up your materials as you've done, make sure you save everytime you change anything, saves headaches later.
Then you need to create a complex object and put Startlight and Startlightglow in as children. Make sure when you added your objects you selected the Properties at the bottom for Startlight and Startlightglow.

 

[mianiak]

Thankyou RT! I also just got your light tutorial and briefing through it I realised this. Thank you so much for your contribution!

[ED] lol! I got this.

The object is:
  9999999.00 m above ground,
  -20000000.00 m high,
  -20000000.00 x -20000000.00 m wide.

I cant use the tools in Xpacker to adjust it either.

[EDD] nvm, I got it to work!!! I was using the wrong Xpack lol. I made a new one for testing, separate to my project xpack and when I tested it, I loaded my project one and not the new one i made :embarrassed:
Once again RT, Thankyou! Today ends 3 days of trying to get this to work and I even got the yellow one to work too

 

[RT1971]

Ignore the settings for the Complex objects, means nothing, just worry about the objects.
Glad you have it working.:victory:

 

[Kris Vickers]

:hypnotized:

My turn to tackle the dreaded 'lights' situation some time soon. Can honestly say, i`m not looking forward to it lol