Try the Virpil airfield equipment mod. I use the VPC NATO light tower #3. It's a taller portable light tower, set its alert condition to red and the lights come on dusk to dawn.

Placeable light objects are something I've found myself wanting as well. The best that can be done currently is to place the one or two vehicles with illuminating headlights as lights, or to use illumination flares. Both have issues though.

Even spotting a FARP is really hard and sometimes requires a lot of circling and if you are not in exact place, it's impossible to found.

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For helipads though, there should be lights built in with the option to turn them on or off, it would save on the object count in missions and mean we only need to place the helipad and not many lights (though if the helipad lights were toggable, they could be toggled off and lights could be placed if the mission maker so wanted).

Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up!

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In panoramic imaging, the cylindrical projection is most often used for prints of wide panoramas which occupy large range (>120 degrees) of longitude. Like the Equirectangular Projection, the cylindrical projection also preserves verticals, but it cannot represent data near the poles (nadir and zenith), which are distorted and stretched further and further to infinity. It can however be used to display more than 360 degrees horizontally: scanning cameras often record a little bit more than 360 degrees so the overlapping region is easier to be stitched if light changes or something moves in that area. Multiples of 360 degrees can e.g. display a changing subject like different seasons.

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Reformers hate him! This one weird trick found by a bush pilot will make gunfighter obsessed old farts angry at your multi-role carrier deck line up!

Cylindrical projection is the native output format of a rotating (scanning) panorama camera (like panoscan, spheron and others) with rectilinear lens or from a swing lens camera (Horizon, Noblex...)

Most of the M92 vehicles and LUV Tigr have lights. You can also use M92 NF-2 lights (there's also lights off version so you can use some trigger magic to control it).

Some do, but good luck figuring out which ones. They really need to add the ability for us to turn lights on or off in the editor.

Other forms of cylindrical projections which can represent the poles, such as the Mercator Projection common in map-making, are not typically used in panoramic imaging.

The solution proposed in the video is not good enough honestly. Adding some "proper" light objects is not that much effort for ED and would really help mission designers. Not just lights for FARPs, but all kinds of light source objects. DCS WWII would also really benefit from some era appropriate illumination.

Even spotting a FARP is really hard and sometimes requires a lot of circling and if you are not in exact place, it's impossible to found.

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The solution proposed in the video is not good enough honestly. Adding some "proper" light objects is not that much effort for ED and would really help mission designers. Not just lights for FARPs, but all kinds of light source objects. DCS WWII would also really benefit from some era appropriate illumination.

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Landing at FARP at night or very poor weather is really hard or almost impossible as there's no mechanic for setting up some lights for helping approach.

Note that while some of the (terrific) new objects (endless Kudos to Massun) do come with lighting, these lights are limited by DCS's (inferior, tuned for performance not eye candy, a choice that I will not fault) lighting engine; these lights aren't fully emissive in nature. This means that they don't cast shadows, nor light the interior of the cockpit, and are often too dim to be of practical use for helo flight simming. They do show up in some NVG, though (for example Huey), so another deep bow of THANK YOU to Massun.

It is possible to set up a trigger to launch a parachute flare if requested through the F10 menu.  This works well to provide temporary illumination during landing if required.  I often use it in my missions for those very dark, moonless or overcast night ops.

Landing at FARP at night or very poor weather is really hard or almost impossible as there's no mechanic for setting up some lights for helping approach.

Straight lines which are not vertical in reality become curved (other than the horizon). The horizon is mapped to a straight line across the middle of the image. Of course this only applies if the axis which the camera was rotated around was strictly vertical. If not the horizon is curved.

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A cylindrical projection is a type of projection for mapping a portion of the surface of a sphere to a flat image. It can be envisioned by imagining wrapping a flat piece of paper around the circumference of a sphere, such that it is tangent to the sphere at its equator. Shining a light from the center of the sphere then projects the spherical surface onto the flat paper.

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Most of the M92 vehicles and LUV Tigr have lights. You can also use M92 NF-2 lights (there's also lights off version so you can use some trigger magic to control it).

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