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New lights.txt for completely entirely new 3D VOLUMETRIC Lighting for X-Plane 11! 14.5 (Bug Fixing/ Final Release)

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About this Add-On:

My Add-On will enhance your lighting on X-Plane tremendously, I have enhanced all lighting on X-Plane including City Lights, Airport lights including Runways, taxiways and Stand lights. I have also enhanced all aircraft interior lighting including Floods Domes and MCP panel lights. Aircraft Exterior lights have also been edited such as Navigation, Beacon, Strobe, Taxi and Landing lights.

1. Installation Instructions:

Enter your X-Plane Main Directory, Go to Resources, Bitmaps, World, than lites and then delete the Lights.txt and the other 3 files in this folder! (do not delete the lites folder itself just delete all the files which are in that lites folder!)! When you have deleted all files, copy the 1000_lights_close.dds, 1000_lights_distant2.dds,1000_lights_fog.dds,1000_lights_precip.dds, lights.txt,landing_light.png and the lights.png or the light png(1) ( you need to decide which light.png you wanna use and by the way you need to remove the (1) in order for it to work )  and put them all in the same lites folder! (Do not copy  the changelog.txt in the lites folder!). Please make sure to make a backup of your existing lites folder somewhere! If you dont like the current version i have the previous release of the Lights.txt down in the description for those who liked to have the lighting around buildings dimmer! 

 

Only Optional!: Use the settings.txt to get thhe best out of this addon!

2. Installation Instructions for the settings.txt:

Enter your xplane main directory, Go to Resources, there you find the settings.txt Delete it  and replace it with the one you downloaded! Make sure to make a backup of the settings.txt somewhere!

 

 

Note: Please download, install and use my other addons as well for the best experiance! (Comming soon!)

Im hopeing for detailed reviews and feedback!

Thank you for downloading my Add-On!

Best regards,

Zombie-YouTube

Add-On Developer

Screenshots where made by my friend Ryan and Thanks to the Xe Add-On (xEnviro). Thank you for your help!

-Extended night Lighting IS incompatible with My Add-On!

If you find any problems or bugs feel free to contact me here via DM or on Discord my tag there is: Zombie YT#1188

And If you wanna support my work a donation via PayPal would be great for supporting me!

My PayPal address is: [email protected]

Thank you! :)

Previous release:

lights.txt

Previous Release of the active dev:

lights.txt

Edited by ZombieYouTubeDE
Updated the Description and added the previous release of the Lights.txt in the description


What's New in Version 14.5 (Bug Fixing/ Final Release)

Released

added not so fps hungry versions for those who dont have good computers and still wanna have good lighting

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OmerGhori

   3 of 3 members found this review helpful 3 / 3 members

Amazing lighting addon! best Lighting addon I have ever came across and I will keep this one!

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Elliot CHEN

   3 of 3 members found this review helpful 3 / 3 members

another great x-plane add-on

great work!

thank you@Zombie-YouTube

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hangglider

· Edited by hangglider

   3 of 3 members found this review helpful 3 / 3 members

 

      5  *****

          Fantastic work. Well done. Thanks.   ( v-13.1 final )

             See  page 5 of comments,

               for  more detailed test results , ( HDR = ON )

with the gargantuan ,   Antonov An-990

at KBFI

 

Edit ---- some lights are too dim (runway lights, and blue taxiway lights)

        ---- some lights are too bright (Strobe lights of the plane)

       ---- FPS reduced from 39 to  23     (on my basic system, no other add-ons / enhancements )

 

Default Lites ----

An-990 - Old Lites-Old Settings.jpg

 

New Lites ----

An-990 - New Lites-New Settings.jpg

 

 

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broberts542129

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

Excellent replacement for default lights.

Default.jpg

Custom1.jpg

Response from the author:

Thank you sooo much😇😇😇😇

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Reshade maker 232

   2 of 2 members found this review helpful 2 / 2 members

Yooo what a great addon it literally made me want to fly at night more!

Response from the author:

thank you sooo much dude :)

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HigherFlights2 NewSkies

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Amazing addon! My computer runs the “notfpshungry” version like a dream. It is incredible! I would rate it as 4.5 stars if I could. 

  I do seem to have a problem with some of lighting though. All the airports have lost their PAPI lights and a few other necessary runway line-up lights. Also, I cannot see the runway or taxiways unless I am lined up with them or very close by. 

(Please refer to the pictures hangglider posted further down to see what I mean. ;)

 

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jyh2004

· Edited by jyh2004

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Have been following this project for a long time and the latest version is amazing.

I added screen shoots here:
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i'm not using reshade or any other enhancement plugin, just asxp and native x-plane.

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and your mentioned fps heavy, yes, around 19fps so still flyable.

jyh

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thank you sooo much buddy maybe you can provide some screenshots would be very helpfull for others :)

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mark_deloop

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Perfect lighting solution. This is a massive upgrade over anything I've personally used. Although lighting in X-plane isn't perfect, this does a great job at attempting to fix it. 

PS: Don't be sorry for updating your product, I'd rather see frequent updates than none for 2 years :)

Again great work, thanks for this!

Response from the author:

thank you sooo much dude :) my final relase is on the way :)

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domasi

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Thank you.

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benneb

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Me when I fly at night with this add-on:This is xp??????? :D

This rly improves the immersion.

Thx for this wonderful add-on.

Response from the author:

Thank you for using this addon and thank you for that amazing Feedback thank you soooo much

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PingFace2

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

that came out amazing! Great Work!

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f0cus

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

Best lighting 10/10 nice job man

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Thank you for using it apriciate it :)

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twowolves

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

 An outstanding addon. Thank you

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Matt3o0

   1 of 1 member found this review helpful 1 / 1 member

thanks for the addon, it made my landing and taxi lights actually useful at night

Response from the author:

thank you soooo much

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camr7878

· Edited by camr7878

   5 of 6 members found this review helpful 5 / 6 members

Ok. Here is my detailed review for this addon.

*You need to use either High or Maximum option in Visual Effect slider to get the best experience of this addon*

Turning the visual effects to HDR modes will, of course, cost you some FPS, but, this addon is worth more than the FPS loss.

 

The night lighting is amazing. Runway lights and taxi lights are brighter and more visible at night, much better than default when doing night flying, also better colored than default, so look better too.

Road lights look spectacular!

The aircraft lighting are more reflective on ground, strobes look good.

The pictures I posted are not good enough, I caught them in PNG, converted to JPG and then uploaded. The original ones look better than these.

 

Also, this is not meant for increasing your FPS, only for visual eye candy.

 

Not recommended for all, but for those that do have a powerful enough PC, go for it.

 

Look at the last pic for direct comparison between this addon and default x-plane 11 lights. 

The top one in the last pic is default and bottom one is the addon. 

 

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Response from the author:

I uploaded a new version if you wanna check it out :)

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Orlandosim

· Edited by Orlandosim

   2 of 3 members found this review helpful 2 / 3 members

Dear Zombie-YouTube

Like your Lightning addon.

Don't want to be rude, but according to me it would be much nicer if you develop your Lightning addon and test it so we don't get several updates a day.....

Have a great day.

 

Response from the author:

Yeah haha im sorry i will do that now PS im Working on a 3d trees addon If you wanna have a Sneak peek DM me :)

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BenyPlayz

· Edited by BenyPlayz

   1 of 2 members found this review helpful 1 / 2 members

I'm sorry but the frames ain't framin' on this one 😕 
not only is this wayyyy too tolling on frames,
but makes the sim unflyable and as someone who flies on vatsim too, we want our frames, 19 fps max will not cut it

I do give props that it looks good tho, but maybe this isn't the sim for this kind of lighting...

 

Edit: Changed review
Much better on frames, with the non hungry version and doesn't look bad at all

 

Response from the author:

as i sayed and as it says in the description says it is very fps heavy sooo i dont think 1 star rating is the right chooise there are also not fps hungry versions try these 

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Zombie Studios

   3 of 8 members found this review helpful 3 / 8 members

I dont know xd i like my addon :)

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