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[langdon]

Thanks cameni,

It seems this works:
tday = ((playerUTCHour * 60 * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCMinute * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCSecond * 1000));
this->set_time(playerDayNumber-1, tday);

the 'player' variables are being extracted from fsx. So maybe I was over thinking it trying to work with solar time.

@acetone.
Your LHNA didn't line up with FSX out of the box but I downloaded some alps scenery for fsx/p3d that had been corrected and it lines up perfectly! WWhat a pleasure.

Talkeetna was close.. the centerline was ok but the piano keys were in the 'fsx' grass. About 2m lower than the fsx runway. Bald Mtn was a blast but about 9m difference in altitude.
I'm thinking I might just butcher the fsx bgl files to match your OT files

Assuming its possible, I'm going to invest a little time making some runway lights. Outerra just kills at sunrise/sunset but I really need lighting on the runways.

If you're looking for a new scenery project any time...Innsbruck would be beautiful!
I had a go at doing St Barts but for the life of me, I couldn't get the runway at the correct elevation and flat. It just seemed to lay along the terrain. But I'll keep trying.

[cameni]

It seems this works:
tday = ((playerUTCHour * 60 * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCMinute * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCSecond * 1000));
this->set_time(playerDayNumber-1, tday);

the 'player' variables are being extracted from fsx. So maybe I was over thinking it trying to work with solar time.

It should work when you are close to the prime meridian, but will drift away with increasing longitude.

[HiFlyer]

Thanks cameni,

It seems this works:
tday = ((playerUTCHour * 60 * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCMinute * 60 * 1000) + (playerUTCSecond * 1000));
this->set_time(playerDayNumber-1, tday);

the 'player' variables are being extracted from fsx. So maybe I was over thinking it trying to work with solar time.

@acetone.
Your LHNA didn't line up with FSX out of the box but I downloaded some alps scenery for fsx/p3d that had been corrected and it lines up perfectly! WWhat a pleasure.

Talkeetna was close.. the centerline was ok but the piano keys were in the 'fsx' grass. About 2m lower than the fsx runway. Bald Mtn was a blast but about 9m difference in altitude.
I'm thinking I might just butcher the fsx bgl files to match your OT files

Assuming its possible, I'm going to invest a little time making some runway lights. Outerra just kills at sunrise/sunset but I really need lighting on the runways.

If you're looking for a new scenery project any time...Innsbruck would be beautiful!
I had a go at doing St Barts but for the life of me, I couldn't get the runway at the correct elevation and flat. It just seemed to lay along the terrain. But I'll keep trying.

If Outerra integrates a worldwide airport database with height data at some point, I suspect (hope) runways and etc will line up a lot more nicely with FSX. That would be very very cool!

[langdon]

Am I right in assuming the 'lights' system is currently broken?

It seems the only models with working lights are those that come with Anteworld. None of the user contributions seem to have working lights.

[Acetone]

Am I right in assuming the 'lights' system is currently broken?

It seems the only models with working lights are those that come with Anteworld. None of the user contributions seem to have working lights.

Right now it's not possible to make working lights with static models, only with vehicles. I think Uriah managed to make some kind of active runways lights, but you had to enter these as if it was a vehicle to make them work. Same thing with animated models, Levi's Wind turbine is activated when you enter it.

A function to toggle animations/lights at some set distance of the camera was planned for static models.

[HiFlyer]

Am I right in assuming the 'lights' system is currently broken?

It seems the only models with working lights are those that come with Anteworld. None of the user contributions seem to have working lights.

The F-117 and the Ilyushin Il-14P have lights, as well as a few ground vehicles. Uriah showed working runway lights quite some time ago, but I think the current lighting is a bit hard on frames. (not sure why)

I think we're all waiting for Outerras equivalent of illuminated textures. The Cessna did have some a long time ago, but current versions of Outerra do not.

EDIT: Looks like Acetone and I cross-posted. 

[thx_nb]

Quite a few user-contributed models have not been adapted to match new methods names for adding lights, after a recent change in Outerra. Some have, like HiFlyer mentioned.
There are also a lot of user-vehicles that are not or don't seem to be actively maintained by their original creators / importers, and which have not been changed since lights where added.

It should be a relatively simple change, if you are a bit familiar with Javascript.

[HiFlyer]

I can't wait till you do a video. 

[Rudeboy1988]

Just a little test

[langdon]

Sweet Rudeboy !

You beat me too it (-:

[HiFlyer]

Very nice. 

I wonder if the ultimate test of something like this is having different computers driving each sim.

[langdon]

I think Rudeboy's video is better, especially as a comparison.

This one's more so Acetone can see his scenery at work.
I guess Cameni see's this kinda stuff all the time. Nice engine guys.

Video:

Don't know what happened with the sound and the jerkiness is due to the screen capture software.

Crap flying is all on me (-:

[langdon]

Runway Lights...
Not Recommended.
I made a vehicle with multiple lights and 'parked' it on the piano keys.
Absolutely killed the frame rate.
I really need to figure  out this screen recorder too. Sorry for the blue lines.

Big pause halfway when I change  to complete darkness in the FSX feeder.

[langdon]

One more...

I should have used the built in video recorder but I forgot (-:
The one I used seems to have sped up the video a little.

These lights are only visible from about 5km out.

[langdon]

Cameni,

I've got a vehicle here and I'm modding the javascript to try and pick up it's position from an external server (via ajax).
I also tried to just read a local text file but the script seems to fail at:

var rawFile = new XMLHttpRequest();

Am I asking too much of the scripting engine at this point?
Should I wait for a few more updates? (-:

Thanks,
L