My best guess would be that there's an FX feature attached to the police drone. I won't be able to double check until later, but your best bet is to find a police drone with the lights on, record the demo, then look for any FX entries for that drone.
That was my next try but I felt it probably wouldn't make a difference, because that is sort of my point. Playing the demo back at nighttime hours made the lights come on BUT I didn't add any other FX to the demo to cause that, so how did it know to do it? lol Thanks, will be trying it tonight and let you know.
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Just as another thing to try, do the attackable police drones in the PPD faction use the same model and FX as the CoH police drones? I can't remember if they have their lights on in mayhem missions or not, but it certainly seems as if they should.
You seem to like finding interesting problems sonic, this better be one helluva demo you're making 
. I'll take a look at it when I get home in a few hours and let you know what I find.
Well you seem to be right. There is no extra little FX entry for the spotlights, they just flip on at night. Since they seem to turn on around 8PM game time, which is still during "afternoon sunset", you should be alright by entering 20 under the time entry.
Thanks again, Balshor and Relentless....HEY, somebody gotta keep you demo pros on your toes! One hell of a demo, yep! *Sigh* too bad my demo needs to be at evening sunset so 20 is too late. Well, it doesn't HAVE to be but some people have trouble seeing it when it's dark, so by having it right before sunset, 18.75 is what I'm using, then it works good but those little lights would have been so nice! I might settle. Thanks again and I'm sure I'll run across more questions I don't have answers for. Thanks also for helping everyone out like you all do, it means a lot to me anyway.
Ok, ok..a little teaser for me demo. I'll say it stars "Elena" our lovely Paragon billboard eyes and lips woman and quite a few well known NPCs. Positron never busted so many moves and who knew Castle had tats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a model thing. Like the map, the model actually knows what time of day it is and displays differently.
I can't think of a way to convince the model it's dark while the map thinks it isn't yet. If you've got a fancy movie editor, though, you might be able to overlay the lights. (I don't have a fancy movie editor so I have no idea how to do that.)
Ok, so I got a question for Demo Editors...I have found something odd to me. I am using a COH Police Drone at zone ent/exit (Police_Drone_Guard) in a video. When it gets "nighttime" the drones have 2 small lights like emergency lights that shine onto the ground. I figured there were 2 NPC's for this, one for day and one for night (with the lights on) but this doesn't seem to be the case. If the time of day for that NPC is changed from day to night, the lights come on in the demo playback. Does that sound logical? I just figured in a playback, the NPC would be the same regardless of time of day unless I used an NPC for night being another name like Police_Drone_Guard2 or Police_Drone_Guard_Night. Hmm.... How do I get the Drone with lights on during "afternoon sunset" time of day?
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