IXEG-737 Lighting Bug

[NoahARKKKK]

After a new fresh installation of the IXEG-737 Classic Plus on X-Plane 12, the lights are very bright. The images provided are in order of this process. On cold and dark all lights are off, then the battery is turned on (1st Photo) the the parking brake light is very bright, then the emergency lights are set to armed (2nd photo) with flood, panel, and dome lights all off, then the ground power is connected and turned on (3rd photo) and there is this super bright light emitting from the fuel gauge area. I removed and uninstalled the aircraft to perform another install but it still persists, how can I fix this??

[Litjan]

Have you switched the dim/bright switch to dim?

Also, are you running a standard X-Plane installation, or have you installed other third-party software that may change light brightness?

[NoahARKKKK]

I'm running on a normal instance of X-Plane no software or add-ons that alter any of the lighting, I had something that changed bitmaps and skycolor but I had a backup of those folders and they're the vanilla files now. The only thing that I've changed that has anything to do with lights is a lights1000 file replacement for improved night lighting or something like that.

[NoahARKKKK]

Alright nevermind I just verified the integrity of the files and it fixed it. I don't know why I didn't try that first but, alright then.

[Litjan]

Thanks for reporting back. This is the common problem, people install shady add-ons in an attempt to "improve" X-Plane to their liking, but really this is like inviting a total stranger to sleep in your house...and then later on you wonder why all of the silver cutlery is missing . 

There are unfortunately a million dubious hacks/plugins and add-ons out there that will happily change files or art-controls that are not supposed to be messed with - and Laminar (and sometimes add-on devs like us) have to deal with the fallout when suddenly "hey, my X-Plane does not work anymore, I did not do anything, I swear!!"