Problem Earth night lights not working

[Cochise]

I searched the forums and couldn't find any relevant answers. I have the Orbiter Beta 091124 - SRC 2.2. I also have Earth lvl 10 textures. I downloaded the Earth high-res night lights 2.0 and the instructions say this:

First, you must edit your EARTH.CFG file (or any Earth CFG files
you want these textures to work on) and find the lines:
MinNighttexResolution = 1 ; lowest night lighting level
MaxNighttexResolution = 8 ; highest night lighting level
If these are set this way, then you can leave alone. If not,
change the MaxNighttexResolution to 8 (as shown above) to enable
the level 8 texturing. That’s all there is too it.

I don't see those lines. Now my default earth lights aren't even working. I checked the visual parameters and it is on. Is there any way I can get it to work?

 

[fort]

If you are talking about the Earth_Nightlights_ver 2.0 made by BigJimW ( in 2005 ) that one can download on Orbithangar i think that there is no possibility to make it work on the actual Orbiter RC ( Beta ) and ( but i do not exactly remember ) on the 2006 release. Landmask and nightlights have been, are, now, in a same .tex file. It was not the case before.

 

[Cochise]

Thanks for the reply fort. Guess I'll have to wait for Orbiter 2010 or an updated addon.

 

[orb]

You could also download Earth level 11 + level 14 Florida textures, which have its own hi-res night city lights included.

A sample from above Florida (ambient light level changed to 63 to show contours of land):

 

[Cochise]

Thank you so much Orb, the textures look great close to the surface. However, I am having another problem with the texture. I can see blocks of different tiles, like its using both the lvl 10 and 11 textures.



Did I do something wrong or miss a step?

 

[orb]

I can see blocks of different tiles, like its using both the lvl 10 and 11 textures.

Most probably original level 8 textures were overwritten by counterpart from Earth lvl 10 textures, and you see level 8 Earth textures from that installed add-on, below the new levels 9-14.

You need to overwrite Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.tex and Earth_lmask.bin (which are for levels 1-8) in Textures by the originals from the Orbiter beta zip archive.

If those files are original and weren't overwritten by add-on, then you only need to delete Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.bin and Earth_lmask.tex from Textures2 folder.

 

[Cochise]

You need to overwrite Earth.tex, Earth_lmask.tex and Earth_lmask.bin (which are for levels 1-8) in Textures by the originals from the Orbiter beta zip archive.

That solved the problem, thanks so much Orb. Appreciate the help.