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Red and Green lights in the Afterburners

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Voodoo:
When viewing the rear of the F18 from an outside view, what are the strange red and green lights (red on the left and green on the right) that appear right in the centre of the afterburners as you slowly progress the throttles into the afterburner range? The green one on the right comes on first and then goes out as you push the throttle further, then the red one on the left comes on and it too goes off as you increase the throttle further.

It looks like something left over from a programming testing stage but how on earth can we get rid of it?! Can we edit a texture somewhere?

mbmorgan:
I see that you haven't received any answers yet ... so I'll give it a shot. I guessing here ... but because the AB effects are basically "lights" as far as FSX is concerned, what you are seeing is therefore likely related to the left wingtip light (red) and the right wingtip light (green) somehow being displayed in the location of the corresponding left/right engine AB effect location. I don't know if the lights can be eliminated from the AB effects ... but do know that if you are in a position to see them, you are probably just a little too close for comfort ...

Mike

Voodoo:
I'm determined to try and find a way of getting these danged lights out of the equation. In addition to the green right side light on stage 2 afterburn and the red left one on stage 3 I've also noticed there's a stupid "landing light" also active on stage 2 afterburn and visible from the front on a fly by mode (or when sitting on the runway at night.
I've managed to alter textures to fix the problem of the burner "disc" animation being too far forward in the tailpipe but I really want to nail this lights bug. Which files are aircraft lights controlled from? Or are they fixed to attach points in the models themselves and you have to somehow get it back in to GMax or 3dS to edit them out? Are there any editors for the MDL files? There used to be for earlier versions of FS.

Great Ozzie:
Well could be navigation lights  :o  as green is for the right/starboard side (wingtip) and red for the left/port side (wingtip) and there should be a white light on the tail (and I think also white lights on the wingtips that face aft).

Rob O.

Great Ozzie:
sorry mbmorgan... I missed your post before i posted...  :-[

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