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Hello Boxcar, my old friend!

I decided to tone down the brightness of the white back-lighting on the pedestal text. It was very 'in your face' and much brighter than the overhead panel white. I think it looks better now and not so big of a distraction to night flying. The AP buttons are another matter however as they are part of the gauge .CAB file and are in 8-bit BMP format and I have been having a hard time this morning getting them to dim down a bit. I am not good with gauge programming and gauge textures but these AP buttons are like headlights blazing away now I've dimmed down the other lighting! I may have to ask for help over at FSDeveloper.......again! 😞

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Tako_Kichi said:
I decided to tone down the brightness of the white back-lighting on the pedestal text. It was very 'in your face' and much brighter than the overhead panel white. I think it looks better now and not so big of a distraction to night flying. The AP buttons are another matter however as they are part of the gauge .CAB file and are in 8-bit BMP format and I have been having a hard time this morning getting them to dim down a bit. I am not good with gauge programming and gauge textures but these AP buttons are like headlights blazing away now I've dimmed down the other lighting! I amy have to ask for help over at FSDeveloper.......again! 😞

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With Update 3 my center pedestal doesn't have the white outlines.
Is is possible that the light Rheostat can be adjustable from just on/of settings?
 

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Turn on the panel lights too, you only have the overhead floods on. The text and lines are back-lit as part of the panel light system. The panel light switch is just below the left throttle beside the landing light and taxi light switches. As to making the rheostat function properly, yes it can be done, yes many have done it before, I just don't know how to do it! I do know it requires custom code to do it and I am not a coder!
 
Well, my thought was to turn on 2 switches. One is the panel switch (which I think I have found) AND and the overhead flood.
Is that not correct? Or did I miss a switch somewhere...?
 
It seem the taxi runway light do not illuminate the runway. Is this the desire results?
This is looking foward over the wings.

Some shockwave lights would cast a nice long visible beam on the runway.
 

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