Thanks Roberto (and those who responded to his questions). The examples
and discussion was very timely for my efforts to add instrument lights
to the pa24 panel. I had included
setprop("/sim/model/material/instruments/factor", bus_volts*0.071428571);
tied to the nav-light switch in the pa24-electrical.nas file.
0.071428571 = 1/14 which normalizes the factor by the max voltage to be
between 0 and 1. But was not sure how to use this to add instrument
lights to the 3d instruments. This evening, I added the appropriate
emissive animations to each of the 3d instruments I use with the
pa24-250. Now the instruments all light if the master switch is on
*and* the nav-light switch is on just like in the real Comanche. They
dim as the battery discharges.
I shot several ILS approaches "at night" in the fgfs pa24-250 and am
very pleased with the changes to the flight model and MP gage mentioned
in my 2/22 posting as well as the instrument lights. I loaded up the
pa28-161 which uses some of these instruments and no functionality was
lost in that ac by these emissive animation changes. I will send these
patches to David Megginson tomorrow evening so they can be put in cvs.
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