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Lighting Effect Question - set a group of indexes to the same value

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G8B4Life:
Ok, that makes sense now, it's not specifically a ditch light thing at all which is what I took it to be.

It should be relatively easy to do, though it might be painfully slow to do it. I just did the on (25%)-off in a couple of minutes. The brightness adjust button was the help here, it adjusts the brightness of the "sample" that the index is set to.

- Tim

William Brillinger:
Ok, I found a fairly quick way to do the adjustment.

The brightness adjust tool works on a selected section of samples, but since it increases by percentage, if there is no brightness set then increasing zero by 200% is still zero.

I found you can quickly fill in the area to be adjusted by clicking on the samples, they don't have to be the same, just fill them in fairly high. Then select that area, brightness adjust it by 200% to fill it all the way up and even it out, then re-adjust the selection to 25%

The area to be filled to 25%:


Roughly filled in:


Area selected:


Adjusted by 200%:


Adjusted to 25%:


Now to try it out! ...but first I need to wire in the ditch lights.

Alan:
Question for a professional railroader on the forum... Assuming diesel, are the headlights and ditchlights controlled by some master switch on the control stand -or- does each light have a switch that the engineer would set individually? Does the direction of travel automatically change lights on the prototype?

[EDIT] found my answer for early diesel on page 11 & 21 of this doc https://wplives.org/wphistory_wp_documents/WP_THE_DIESEL_LOCOMOTIVE.pdf. Looks like the ProtoThrottle nailed it!

William Brillinger:
"Looks like the ProtoThrottle nailed it!"

That's what my research said too, and thus lead me to the setup I am trying.

G8B4Life:

--- Quote from: Alan on November 28, 2020, 11:24:04 AM ---[EDIT] found my answer for early diesel on page 11 & 21 of this doc https://wplives.org/wphistory_wp_documents/WP_THE_DIESEL_LOCOMOTIVE.pdf.

--- End quote ---

The GP-9 manual has a good drawing and description of the switch: https://wplives.org/wphistory_wp_documents/WP_OPERATING_MANUAL_GP9_LOCOMOTIVES.pdf. Pages 30, 31.


--- Quote ---Looks like the ProtoThrottle nailed it!

--- End quote ---

Maybe, maybe not. It's a "depends" thing. I know they can't build a ProtoThrottle to suit all variations in EMD land but we certainly have locomotives that have nothing more than an on/off toggle switch for each headlight and a single dim/bright toggle switch that functions for both
headlights.

- Tim

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