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[JeromeHeretic]

Wow, that was quick! Thank you :-)

[gi_dan2987]

We like to help folks around here as quickly as possible. We all know that we have things to do like sink ships and eat chips

[JeromeHeretic]

Well, i have another questions, now it's about 3D models and Silent 3ditor.

1. In Locations.cfg, when add lighthouse, there's only parameter about altitude of object. It's OnLand paraeter, which is type boolean. When i set it false, lighthouse is rendered from sea level, so when is on the ground, it's rootet underground. How much, it depend on local terrain height.
When i set OnLand=true, lighthouse is flying about 1 - 3 m over land.
So my idea was, that it's by definition of positioning lighthouse object.
I open Harbor_Kit.dat in S3ditor and change Y parameter of lighthouse to 0, but nothing happen. I tried set Y to -3 and nothing happen too.
What i'm doing wrong, or where can be problem?

EDIT: When i'm talking about XYZ coordinates, i mean "Translation:" coordinates in S3D.
MinBuildingTerrainHeight=0 in Locations.cfg

2. When i look to preview of lighthouse 3D model in Silent 3Ditor (ver. 0.9.9.0, i didn't look if newer version exist) and after that i want to see preview of other object, i see model of lighthouse all the time. When i close editor and open dat file again, situation is the same. I can only see a lighthouse model even when i'm clicking to any object. Is it some sort of bug of S3D, or what?

Can you give me a download of your file?

[JeromeHeretic]

Here it is: http://www.ucw.cz/~jerome/Harbor_kit.dat but it's standard GWX Harbor_kit.dat. As i remember i was not editing it. I only change a skin of lighthouse to black and white version in high resolution, just change one embeded picture to other one. But problem with flying lighthouses was in game (or in GWX, not sure if it's GWX specific problem) as i remember, because i remember flying lighthouse on Helgoland.

The file you provided is NOT the standard GWX 3 Harbor_kit.dat!
It is wildly larger then stock from GWX 3.
I can't help you.

[JeromeHeretic]

Well, i go to do deeper search in my mod mess and find origin of this dat file.

[JeromeHeretic]

So i did now clean installation with GWX and clean instalation with TGW1.1a and it's always the same. Here are screenshots of Friedrichsort lighthouse in Kiel:
At first levitating lighthouse of TGW1.1a:


And second screenshot of levitating lighthouse in GWX:


So, what now? Any ideas?

[JeromeHeretic]

As i wrote before, sometimes, when terrain is near sea level, is possible set OnLand to false, lighthouse is diged a bit under ground level, but if it's not too much, it doesn't matter.

I was searching solution some time ago, but only what i found was this:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=lighthouse

The same problem - no solution. :-(

Open the kiel.dat found in Terrain\Locations folder with S3D

Find the Generic_Light_hoouse16
(It's Node 103)

Reduce the Y value to lower the light house.

Each .1 change is a meter.

[JeromeHeretic]

I try it and it's a bit crazy. :-) I try to set -1, which is 10 meters and one lighthouse was rooted deep into pier, but on second nothing change (look at the far one):



But i must thank you, because you push me to right way. I edited Lighthouse.dat and that's it! I will tune it a bit more, but i think some value between -0.01 and -0.03 can be good for all slopes of terrain.

Lighthouse.dat?

That's not a GWX file.

But if your fixed?
That's all that matters.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Lighthouse.dat?

That's not a GWX file.

But if your fixed?
That's all that matters.

Nice one matey

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Nice one matey

Ya.
But I look like Steve!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by privateer

Ya.
But I look like Steve!

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