[REQUEST] Navigation lights on ships when landing gear down [v3]
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This is a must, I love this. As we getting new lighting and darker landings its more important.
Even now some landing areasa re darker due to the colour of the planet.
This must be in there. Pls pls pls fdev,
Can we have a switch or mode setting to make them manual or auto with landing gear.
I can imagine times where you want to hide while landing on a planet.
Should you be near a station or planet based station, should you fail to have them on you should get a fine.
Of course not if in silent mode, as they don't know where you have gone.
Even now some landing areasa re darker due to the colour of the planet.
This must be in there. Pls pls pls fdev,
Can we have a switch or mode setting to make them manual or auto with landing gear.
I can imagine times where you want to hide while landing on a planet.
Should you be near a station or planet based station, should you fail to have them on you should get a fine.
Of course not if in silent mode, as they don't know where you have gone.
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I found a couple planets locked in an orbit that produced frequent eclipses. Now, the COOL part of this, is that it doesn't activate the "night time" shaders behind the planet. Since you're facing the sun, there's just a planet in the way, so no light.
Spooky, though. I'm looking out, and only have a narrow cone of light out the front.
I REALLY needed me some floodlights. I was waiting to hear scraping on the outside of the hull...
Spooky, though. I'm looking out, and only have a narrow cone of light out the front.
I REALLY needed me some floodlights. I was waiting to hear scraping on the outside of the hull...
In four years??? No...
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Kudos to CMDR BlueTesla
seems like an interesting idea, a little more immersion. Not sure what the overhead on FDev might be ...
BUT ...
The reason ships and current era aircraft have that configuration of lights is to ensure that the orientation of the ship can be immediately and correctly identified in the dark or otherwise poor visibility.
The configuration of lights in your diagrams would not uniquely identify the orientation of a spacecraft that has three rotational degrees of freedom. The port and starboard lights (red and green) are the ones that are used to determine orientation. On a space ship it would not be possible to determine if a ship was flying towards you, or upside down flying away from you. In fact its worse than that because ED ships fly equally as well forwards and backwards so the lighting configuration you demonstrate would not give you anything like all the information you need to accurately place the ship in its correct orientation and direction of travel.
This is already an issue in rotary aircraft where the lights will give you enough information about the orientation of the craft, but not its direction of travel. Its one of the reasons why airports have strict rules on direction of flight for rotary craft in certain zones.
Now that's not to say that a suitable system of navigational lights could not be developed and implemented, but it would need to build on to the existing arrangement of lights.
BUT ...
The reason ships and current era aircraft have that configuration of lights is to ensure that the orientation of the ship can be immediately and correctly identified in the dark or otherwise poor visibility.
The configuration of lights in your diagrams would not uniquely identify the orientation of a spacecraft that has three rotational degrees of freedom. The port and starboard lights (red and green) are the ones that are used to determine orientation. On a space ship it would not be possible to determine if a ship was flying towards you, or upside down flying away from you. In fact its worse than that because ED ships fly equally as well forwards and backwards so the lighting configuration you demonstrate would not give you anything like all the information you need to accurately place the ship in its correct orientation and direction of travel.
This is already an issue in rotary aircraft where the lights will give you enough information about the orientation of the craft, but not its direction of travel. Its one of the reasons why airports have strict rules on direction of flight for rotary craft in certain zones.
Now that's not to say that a suitable system of navigational lights could not be developed and implemented, but it would need to build on to the existing arrangement of lights.
X4 has "docking lights"... We'll have to wait and see if that amounts to the kind of navigation lights being proposed here...
https://www.reddit.com/r/X4Foundati...docking_an_automatic_procedure_or_can_i_also/
https://www.reddit.com/r/X4Foundati...docking_an_automatic_procedure_or_can_i_also/
+1 (again) from me.
IIRC, I've supported all previous suggestions too. Lol
Yes please!
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
IIRC, I've supported all previous suggestions too. Lol
Yes please!
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
I love it! maybe the traffic controllers could notice if you turned it off during entry and they'll remind you like when you forget to extend the landing gear.