Taxilights / light presets not working anymore

Version: 1.0.72.0

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: Blocker

Context:
Aerosoft EDDB Berlin
Aerosoft EDDN Nurnberg
…many others (including asobo airports)

Bug description:
Light presets with do not seem to work anymore:

  1. Lights are not being displayed anymore.
  2. Meshes/objects applied to the light presets are only loaded as wireframe.

Referring to the SDK they should still be supported and there doesn’t seem to be an alternative for custom taxilights with directional lighting:
https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/2_DevMode/Scenery_Editor/Objects/Airport_Objects.htm

Repro steps:
Load either of above mentioned addons and check out the taxilights (not runway lights, those are based on default)

Attachments:
EDDB:

Same location in MSFS2020 (note the meshes used are default MSFS models):

EDDN Nurenberg:

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Confirmation, we have found that all of our light rows which have custom AIRPORT - LIGHT PRESET no longer show the lights. This affects our hold short, taxiway end and custom beacon lights at all of our airports.
Using the pre-defined runway edge and runway center lights with a light row do appear to work correctly.

FS2020 Custom Light Preset (red taxiway end)

FS2024 - absent

Hello @Sasa

I think most of the issues you mentioned are also being tracked with these different reports:

Light row mesh not rendering light nodes? (2020 compatibility) - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Airport & Sceneries - MSFS DevSupport

Light row mesh only shows one node of multinode mesh (2020 compatibility) - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Airport & Sceneries - MSFS DevSupport

Light row mesh glass not showing (2020 compatibility) - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Airport & Sceneries - MSFS DevSupport

Light row mesh rotated if rotation is not applied in blender (2020 compatibility) - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Airport & Sceneries - MSFS DevSupport

Light row preset intensities very different (2020 compatibility) - [MSFS 2024] Bug Reports / Airport & Sceneries - MSFS DevSupport

Some of these issues will be addressed in the next build.

You mentioned some asobo airports were affected. Can you elaborate please?

Regards,
Sylvain

@FlyingRaccoon Also don’t know if your aware of this, if not i can make a report. But the Sim container passenger characters don’t always show up, sometime theyr’e invisible or show the red error man.
Also most vegetation from the scenery tab also just show a wireframe.