Night light problem

[miguelkuk 109]

I used to BAT quite a lot, but I haven't BATted in many years, so I forgot some of the stuff. I feel a little silly asking this, but I've modelled a simple sign on GMAX with the appropriate spot light for night lighting (named niteliteSpot01). I can see the desired night effect, both on preview and as it exports. I also checked the FSH of the exported model on the Reader and the night lighting overlays are all there as intended.

I have also not forgotten to switch "light" to TRUE when creating the prop from the model, on the Plugin Manager. And yet, there are no night lights when I get ingame.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

[TCD 123]

Is the prop overhanging from the lot?

[meister1235 92]

Do you see the nightlight of other mods ingame? If not then you maybe forgot to update SC4 and need to do this.

[SimCoug 5,973]

Power?

[miguelkuk 109]

 

Do you see the nightlight of other mods ingame? If not then you maybe forgot to update SC4 and need to do this.

 

Hmm now that you mention it, I am not seeing night lighting on buildings I used to see lit. And yes, it's all powered up lol.

Which update is it?

[Huston 5,798]

You're looking for this little update here, the one with Update 1.1.640.0 That update enabled custom BAT nightlighting to display properly.

[miguelkuk 109]

Well, oddly enough, I have just found out that by switching back and forth between daylight and night ingame, made all the lights work again. Weird....

[TCD 123]

Night lighting is very frustrating in this game. I've had problems where my lights don't work in game when the lot grows on an east-west road, but light up just fine on a north-south road. Sometimes props/buildings won't light up when I try to grow the lot on a hill. Sometimes I just need to re-render and it will work for no apparent reason. I can not make sense of it sometimes.

[miguelkuk 109]

I hadn't actually noticed it as I play nearly always at daylight. But I am also finding a few random inconsistencies with how the game handles night lighting now that I started noticing.