How to turn on cockpit shadows?
- Thread starter Anthin
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Firstly - not every aircraft supports cockpit shadows - it depends on the .mdl. The vast majority will, but some older ones may not. Even some Carenado ones (I think) draw shadows on only certain parts of the dashboards. Most newer aircraft should be fine.
It's possible you were doing everything right, but just happened to be using a "rogue" aircraft.
I can't find any links in the manual <?> - are you referring to the v2.3 manual? Or are you using the freeware version?
See below:
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There are four things that must be in place for you to see VC Shadows for a particular aircraft.
1. The Option in FSX “Aircraft casts shadows on itself” must be selected
2. The aircraft must be built with the FSX SDK and must have an interior model.
3. A Flag to enable VC Shadows must be set on in the interior model. The included DX10Toolbox can be used to set this flag on – subject to any EULA constraints.
4. The model must avoid certain techniques which prevent the shadows working. The option Force VC Walls corrects for one of these techniques and so may improve VC shadows for some aircraft.
If 1-3 are in place and you do not see shadows even with Force VC Walls set then it is the model uses a technique that DX10SF cannot correct for.
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You'll need to go into DX10 Toolbox and try to enable VC shadows on a per-aircraft basis:
"The menu option Turn On VC Shadows will present a browse selection dialog. Select the FSX interior model file."
The file(s) are in the "model" directory of each aircraft and usually have "interior"" somewhere in the filename, eg: "C47R_interior.mdl".
Regards,
Adam.
Clicking on the manual button opens the UserManual.pdf
installed in your Dx10SceneryFixer folder.
Page 97 covers your question.
In a nutshell, open Dx10Toolbox.
Select Aircraft\Turnon VC shadows.
Browse to the model folder of the aircraft you wish to modify
and select the interior model.
Click on open.
You cannot add VC shadows to non native FSX models, they have
no separate interior model and some early FSX aircraft models do
not have the correct section in their model.
Regards,
Nick
I see Adam has replied too, I'll leave this post anyway.
installed in your Dx10SceneryFixer folder.
Page 97 covers your question.
In a nutshell, open Dx10Toolbox.
Select Aircraft\Turnon VC shadows.
Browse to the model folder of the aircraft you wish to modify
and select the interior model.
Click on open.
You cannot add VC shadows to non native FSX models, they have
no separate interior model and some early FSX aircraft models do
not have the correct section in their model.
Regards,
Nick
I see Adam has replied too, I'll leave this post anyway.