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suggestions for improving lighting effects on the a346

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initially posted at the wrong subforum, here it is again...

there are two items that can be implemented to improve the overall visual experience of the a346:

1) get rid of the beacon effect baked into the model. use the plain .fx based beacons so that they do not suffer from LOD culling. also, normal .fx effects allows beacon effects to be easily projected onto the wings.

2) assign potentiometers to the LCD panels and integral lighting brightness knobs so that cockpit ambient lighting can be affected by those light emitters.

now, the lighting of the initial release got a lot of negative reviews so i uploaded a lighting mod that addressed most of the issues (except #2 above):

Flightsim.to
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Aerosoft/Toliss A346 Light Mod - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: This add-on modifies the lighting for the Aerosoft and Toliss Airbus A340-600 in Microsoft Flight Simulator. It improves flood, cockpit, and beacon lights as well as

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aerosoft is free to take what's in the mod to improve the product, as i do not wish to maintain the mod iteration after iteration.

2 hours ago, dfw said:

initially posted at the wrong subforum, here it is again...

there are two items that can be implemented to improve the overall visual experience of the a346:

1) get rid of the beacon effect baked into the model. use the plain .fx based beacons so that they do not suffer from LOD culling. also, normal .fx effects allows beacon effects to be easily projected onto the wings.

2) assign potentiometers to the LCD panels and integral lighting brightness knobs so that cockpit ambient lighting can be affected by those light emitters.

now, the lighting of the initial release got a lot of negative reviews so i uploaded a lighting mod that addressed most of the issues (except #2 above):

Flightsim.to
No image preview

Aerosoft/Toliss A346 Light Mod - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: This add-on modifies the lighting for the Aerosoft and Toliss Airbus A340-600 in Microsoft Flight Simulator. It improves flood, cockpit, and beacon lights as well as

20260322_181151_5807100d28322d0c_aerosof

20260322_181152_919c34efe2556fb7_aerosof


aerosoft is free to take what's in the mod to improve the product, as i do not wish to maintain the mod iteration after iteration.

Thank you for your work! Will definitely try your mod.

By the way do you think is it possible to fix some shimmering around some buttons as shown on my screenshot?

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  • 3 weeks later...
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updated to v2.0 with projector-style front panel flood lights.

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Flightsim.to
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Aerosoft/Toliss A346 Light Mod - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: This add-on enhances the lighting for the Aerosoft and Toliss A340-600, improving both virtual cockpit and external lights. It introduces projector-style front panel

Thank you Sir! Now the A346 flight deck appears acceptable at night..

But hopefully AS will improve/fix the interrior AND exterrior lighting with future upgrade.

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