oli333 Posted February 10, 2014 Share Posted February 10, 2014 Hello there, recently got back into FS after about a 9 year hiatus so have been stocking up on goodies for it. I recently bought orbx global and orbx england, though I am having a problem (I think?). When flying globally at night (outside of UK), I have all the nice vector lighting effects in towns/cities/roads (which I really like), but I don't have any of these in the UK. Is the orbx england pack supposed to include this effect? I seem to have tried every combination of install orders/day & night switching and setting hybrid mode etc in FXT Central...but I still can't seem to get any vector lights showing in England. I'm an ex-scenery developer so like to think I am *fairly* competent at installing sceneries etc... The only other addons I have are 3 of the UK2000 airports. I have tried turning these off... I'm hoping you might have some suggestions for me. I have tried searching the forum but can't seem to find a similar problem. Thanks in advance, Oli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksw1983ksw Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I would second this comment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornworrier Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 You need to wait until Orbx retro fit the new style lighting to England, they're not there and that explains why nothing you do makes them appear! FTX global will display the lovely street lights etc but only if you disable the Orbx England scenery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Newman Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 FTX England does include 3D lighting, but it uses the old style of lighting developed a while back. To see this lighting, you'll need to run the "night mode" icon that was installed to the desktop. One thing to note, the 3D lighting in England is not as dense as in FTX Global as the old style lighting had quite an impact on performance. The good news is, as has been mentioned, all the full FTX regions are currently undergoing a Global Lighting upgrade so once England has been done, you'll get the much nicer, better performing 3D lights that you get in FTX Global. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0you Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 How about an indication of when this is likely to happen? Without doubt, FTX England is a superb package but I was somewhat surprised and disappointed at the limited Street lighting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobdeVries Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 As far as I know the latest updates contains the new style lights..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0you Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Not according to the manual in the package that I downloaded a few days ago. Perhaps something is wrong with my installation! I noted that I did to get the desktop day/night switcher shortcuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi there, welcome to Orbx! In order to receive support for our payware products please post your order numbers as per this thread: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/1157-important-notice-please-add-your-order-to-your-sig-for-support/ Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0you Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi, hopefully you now have my order details. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi there, thanks for posting the order number. The new night lighting was added to FTX England with the service pack 4; please download the patch from the bottom of this page: https://www.fullterrain.com/product/eng Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0you Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Thanks for the prompt response. The patch is asking me for the original disk, what do I do since I have the online downloaded executable? I note that the patch was released last August so I assumed that FSS would have distributed an updated package or a least a note that the patch is needed. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0you Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Thanks for you help. I have now managed to install the patch. Brilliant I now have street lights. Extracting the .exe from the zip file may have fixed the request for the original disk, although I not 100% sure about that. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi there, good to hear. Indeed, all of our installers need to be extracted from the zip archive first. The soon-to-be-released FTX Central v2 will include a feature to alert users of service packs they haven't installed. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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