GOBD Dynamic Lighting not working

[EEFlyer]

Hi !
I recently bought the FSDG Dakar, and I really love doing flights from and to Europe with this scenery. However, the only issue I have with this scenery is that dynamic lighting seems to be working only when departing from GOBD. But arriving from another airport, no matter the distance, doesn't work at all.
I tried :
- GOBD-LEMD : dynamic lighting was working
- LEMD-GOBD : dynamic lighting was not working on arrival
- LFPG-GOBD : dynamic lighting was not working on arrival
Even shorter flights with very reduced distances like GOOY (the old Dakar airport) to GOBD - but once again dynamic lighting was not working.

Is there any way you can help with that please ? I noticed that this issue arose with other sceneries in the forum and you seems to provide a fix for these issue

Best regards

[horst18519]

Please extract the attached files into the FSDG-LITE-Dakar/Effects folder (overwrite the 2 existing files) and try again. (see below)

[EEFlyer]

Hi ! Thank you for your help.
Unfortunately, I did not worked at all...I did two flights on two different aircraft, but nothing changed.
I will try to uninstall and reinstall to see then

EDIT : even uninstalling and reinstalling did nothing...

[horst18519]

Yeah, sorry, I forgot that some name duplicates exist if you have other FSDG sceneries. Please use the attached files. One scenery bgl needs to be overwritten, the new fx files replace the old ones.
This time it should really work.

[EEFlyer]

Thanks again for your help !
Unfortunately, still nothing. I did what you instructed but still no dynamic lighting. I checked twice, it was enabled in the configurator and in the sim setting, nothing is working

[horst18519]

It should work. Please make sure you overwrite the original bgl file and put the fx files in the correct folder.

[EEFlyer]

Hi
Once again I did a fresh install and retried with your instructions.
Please correct me if anything is wrong -
The effect folder looks like that

And the scenery one :

The config :


Once again, the lights are present when departing from GOBD, but not upon arrival. I gave another try, leaving from GOOY to GOBD :

The airport is visible from the sky, so it it installed and loaded

On arrival, please note how GSX SimObjects are not illuminated, this is already an indication that DL are not working

And sadly the final result :


Please tell me if anything is wrong, otherwise the fix is still not effective

[horst18519]

That doesn't make sense I tested it several times and could not find any problem.
The reason for the original problem was that - if you use multiple FSDG sceneries - P3Dv4 gets confused because of similar fx file names. Now, with the custom file names there should be no problem for P3D to load them.
Any fancy setting in your P3D graphics settings?

[EEFlyer]

I tested DL on arrival at Heathrow, Gatwick, Paris CDG and Geneva, they all showed up on arrival, so I do not think it is coming up from my side...
Nevermind, it's okay, thank you for trying to help !

[horst18519]

If you have certain other FSDG addons it's possible that the lights didn't work on arrival, but not with the newest files. Maybe double-check if you installed them in the correct folder and don't have any duplicates somewhere.

[EEFlyer]

This scenery is the only one I have from FSDG I reinstalled it three times already with the instructions provided (as proved with the screenshots of my folders above)

[horst18519]

Which P3D version do you use?

[EEFlyer]

Prepar3D V4.5

[horst18519]

I've updated the installer in the shop database. Please download it again from your account.
Make sure you uninstall and remove the old version first:
- reset everything to default in the scenery configurator
- use the uninstaller to remove FSDG-LITE-Dakar
- check if the FSDG-LITE-Dakar folders are removed both, in your install location and in the user documents/Prepar3D v4 AddOns folder
- make sure there are no leftover files in other locations, for example the main P3Dv4/effects folder
- install the updated version

[EEFlyer]

Good afternoon !
I uninstalled the previous version, set everything to default, made sure to remove the remaining files - and installed the updated one and....


Nothing is working - I even flew from other airport like Madrid to Zurich or Manchester to London at night to see if it's my P3D settings, but the DL all worked in these airport, but still nothing in Dakar.
May I ask you your results if you do a small flight from GOOY to GOBD (approx 5 mins), do you have DL ?

Also, I really appreciate your efforts, thank you very much !

[horst18519]

Dynamic lights work without problems. As soon as you are closer than 8,000 meters to the airport they are activated, so it's independent of where you start from.
We have not had any problems with those (except if you have multiple different of our addons, some of which use similar file names).

[EEFlyer]

Did you just said miracle ?


I just tried to increase the mesh settings, it worked !
Thank you for your help throughout this issue

[horst18519]

Did you just say "increase mesh setting"? I wasn't aware of that. Can you replicate that bug?

[EEFlyer]

Hi !
Sorry for my late reply -
I did the experience again with GOBD and St Lucia which I recently bought, it might be an issue in my case but it did the same thing again. A mesh level increase seems to fix that