ATR External Lights Broken

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

How are the external lights still all screwed up?! The red nav light is facing the fuselage lighting the whole left side of the aircraft red, the right strobe light on the wing is facing the rear of the aircraft.

Typically this wouldn’t be that big of a deal because I was able to go into the VFS folders and make some tweaks to the lights myself but Asobo decided to change some things in the dev move which now makes accessing aircraft lights on encrypted aircraft impossible. Such a shame…

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Every time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Just load the aircraft

YOUR SETTINGS

Not Relevant

MEDIA



On my first look this seems to be caused by the “light sources” themselves being placed behind the 3D model of the lights. So if you bring your camera in “through” the light, you will see that the source is sitting behind.

BUGS AND MORE BUG. we need a studio version

No we need access to the encrypted aircraft lights again! They really need to bring that back in dev mode. I could fix this in 5 mins if i STILL had access…


The lights aren’t the only problem; the ATR 72-600 is incredibly slow, and the windshield wipers on the ATR 42 have a strange movement. I spoke with an ATR captain who told me that the flight dynamics are only 50% complete, among other things. Clearly, MSFS needs to redesign this aircraft from scratch, or a third party will have to develop it.

I disabled the “Aircraft Realistic Lights” add-on by Zinertek, and the exterior lights are working again.