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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
the flourescent lights will only show if you click the switch. The lights themselves are located on the bottom of the fuse pod (for lack of better wording) and can be seen in Rogers screenshot earlier in the thread
The manuals where jesse's department, to be fair he was busy bug spoting and considering the low amount of them he did a good job
Theres deffinitly a trend with the switch not working with nvidia cards ... i'm wondering if its to do with drivers ... i'm useing the 190.62 drivers and it works fine for me. Your useing the 182.50 and i'm not sure which version stansdds is useing? Any of you ATI lot haveing troubles with it?? Any other Nvidia users as well?
Driver 181.20 WHQL.
I wonder if some of those who see nothing when the fluorescent light switch is clicked are looking outside the aircraft, in spot view, towards the bottom centre of the fuselage? Are these actually "formation" lights maybe? I see nothing in the VC but this switch activates the lights on the bottom of the fuselage as was intended I believe.
Rick
all i know is when its dark and i click the fluoros nothing happens, dark cabin, but if i hit "L" the cabin lights up. Anyways, thats as much of an issue to me as is the flight model, nothing major but seems a little underpowered to me, only getting appprox 280 or 290 at sea level with WEP, when the max was 350, also at about 26k top speed was 414 but im only getting about 380, also she seems to be rolling a little quickly for such a large bird, i dunno i love flying it the way it is, just feels like it should feel heavier. I apologize if this has already been brought up, still love flying her!
My suggestion is to switch from the cabin to spot view and look towards the bottom of the fuselage to see the so-called fluorescent lights. I doubt if you will see anything from inside the aircraft.
Rick
Those are called recognition lights and from cockpit diagrams that ive seen, the switches are on the right side next to the radios. The fluorescent lights are used for general cabin lighting as these planes had gauge needles that were painted with luminescent paint. To answer your question no that switch does not make the recognition lights come on for me, this is already an issue that is being worked on.
*EDIT* Im sorry it seems the Fluorescent switch does in fact enable the recognition lights, welp, that aint right. I got a question as well, the fuel gauges only work for the main tanks, now i know there was no gauge for drop tanks, you had to calculate it, and the outer tanks had a test switch, but how about the reserve tanks??
*EDIT* Im sorry it seems the Fluorescent switch does in fact enable the recognition lights, welp, that aint right. I got a question as well, the fuel gauges only work for the main tanks, now i know there was no gauge for drop tanks, you had to calculate it, and the outer tanks had a test switch, but how about the reserve tanks??
modelr
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I think the problem with the lights is a mistaken nomenclature. Especially on this side of the pond, USA. "Fluorescent" lights over here mean "general space lighting," not individual recognition lights that "may" use fluorescent bulbs. That may be why so many can't see them, thinking they are for cockpit lighting. Not having my P-38 reference book handy, is the switch misnamed?? Recognition lights will NOT be seen from inside the cockpit, except from another plane that you are following below and behind.
I haven't had time to load and fly mine yet, do to R/L job, but it sounds like this is the main cause of the problem.
I haven't had time to load and fly mine yet, do to R/L job, but it sounds like this is the main cause of the problem.
I think I agree. Perhaps that "fluorescent" light switch has been mislabelled. I guess originally I was just observing that some reports that the fluorescent switch may have been because its label may be a bit misleading; one would expect it to control a light in the cockpit instead of lights on the fuselage. No sense asking Stiz to chase down a faulty switch when the switch does function?
Edit: Sorry modelr, we posted at the same time but we sure seem to agree on this.
Rick
Update on my crashing situation, it seems this plane did not like my video settings. Switching to Combined Sampling AA solved the lock up and crash issue when trying to turn on the fluorescent light switch, but I can also confirm that the switch is mislabeled as it actually turns on the recognition lights.
im not saying its right, but on a "competitor" p-38 the recognition lights are on the right side near the radio switches, with a single switch for each recog light, and the Fluoro switch operates the cabin lights. I found a reprinted p-38 manual and one of the pages i got a preview of showed that switch labeled "Fluorescent lights"
Hey folks just a little update on things, work on the patch has slowed a lot the past week as i've been drafted into putting up a solar dome whilst the weather stays resonable, should have it done by the end of the day hopefully then i'll be back onto finishing the patch.
When will the patch be ready?? when its done
When will the patch be ready?? when its done
I'm sure the silence means the patch is being studiously worked on, I have a question about the mixture, to my knowledge the p-38 had an automatic mixture, however this one is manual, and ive found that you have to almost bottom it out in as little as 10k feet to get max performance.
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tigisfat
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unfortunatly i'm haveing to look for a new place to live, so work on the patch isnt my highest proity at the moment i'm sorry to say.
Saying that however:
1, I wasnt happy with the new paints so they've been further tweaked and only the ones on the L version remain to be done.
2, New high rez 4096x4096 bump map
3, Jesse is working on the flight dynamics
4, Jesse has tweaked the effect files a bit which he hopes will have fixed the crashes some people experience.
5, Camera views have been added to the cfg
4, Fuel gauges have been fixed
Unfortunatly as i said above i'm haveing to look for a new place to live, whilst trying to find the money to do so, so work on the patch isnt as fast paced as i'd like it to be
Saying that however:
1, I wasnt happy with the new paints so they've been further tweaked and only the ones on the L version remain to be done.
2, New high rez 4096x4096 bump map
3, Jesse is working on the flight dynamics
4, Jesse has tweaked the effect files a bit which he hopes will have fixed the crashes some people experience.
5, Camera views have been added to the cfg
4, Fuel gauges have been fixed
Unfortunatly as i said above i'm haveing to look for a new place to live, whilst trying to find the money to do so, so work on the patch isnt as fast paced as i'd like it to be