No cockpit lighting?

[MarkHargrove]

After having been very focused on panel building the complicated pedestal panels for my simulator, I'm down to the pilot-side cockpit lighting panel.  I wanted to be sure I knew exactly what lights each knob controlled so I fired up the the CL650 at night using external AC power.  With the battery on and external AC power on and all lighting knobs turned up, the cockpit is still basically dark.  I have backlighting on the overhead, but nothing on the pedestal. The map lights don't illuminate anything.  Is this the way it's supposed to look?

[Pils]

Are you SURE all the INTEGRATED knobs are turned full up on the rear of the pedestal?

[rjb4000]

Here's the location of the center lighting panel (the black rectangle in the figure) which controls the instrument integral lighting, along with the circuit breaker panel lights.

 

 

[MarkHargrove]

It looks like I had not turned the pedestal integrated lighting knob to full bright.  With all the knobs verified as full bright, this is what I now see.  Is the 'Flood' lighting supposed to light up the cockpit itself?  Are the 'Floor' lighting switches supposed to do anything?

[Pils]

Yes, they all work if you have HDR enabled in visual effects.

[MarkHargrove]

Ah ha! -- that was what I had set incorrectly.  I'm looking at this on my "dev" system which was just using default XP11 graphics setting (which seemed to be 'Medium').  Once I enabled HDR, all  the lighting appears (and looks really good, btw).

Thanks!

-M.