Transition day to night and airport lghting

[Graham Jackson]

I noticed during one of the beta tests we did that the airport lights came on at night and not at dusk.  It seems as if FSX has a built-in coding that performs this action and it is configurable.

The following quote is from  Bill Leeming's post on AVSIM http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=121&topic_id=414971&mesg_id=414971&page=:

From a collection of tips from Phil Taylor's blog:
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http://www.fsinsider.com/tips/Pages/SP1HowtoPrepareforSP1andWhatYouGetWhenYouInstallIt.aspx

For the dusk/dawn textures some people feel that the result is too dark or too light. There are 2 items that allow the transition time to be changed:


DAY_THRESHOLD
NIGHT_THRESHOLD

Acceptable values are 0 to 65535.

Defaults:
DAY: 32768
NIGHT: 4096

These represent the amount of

[George Davison]

Has anyone tried this?

No, we are all waiting for you to try it 

George

[Graham Jackson]

ROFL - OK I'll give it a go - thanks for the vote of confidence George 

[Bill Hall]

And the result was??