Anyone have any idea on how to make ODF lights appear when they're a REALLY far distance from the player? (e.g., across an entire map?)
I tried using the DrawDistance parameter in the light's ODF as per the parameter being listed in this document: http://www.secretsociety.com/forum/downloads/BF2Docs/ODF%20Parameters.txt (press Ctrl+F and type "DrawDistance" without the quotes)
But with no luck. To be specific, I tried setting it to 2000.0.

I know for a fact the lights work because:
Light ODF:

I am not an expert in light odf's but maybe try to add lights in lighting mode. Maybe this should work. Or the view distance in your sky file is to low. I dont know if it works.

Do you have an example in your head of lights being visible at far distance? They may simply not be able to be drawn, in which case, use an LOD "light" model that only has a lowrez model.

Yeah, I was specifically thinking of aircraft warning lights on very tall towers. But yeah, I'll likely just go with glowing bits instead. I could always also have a lens flare particle effect... Hmmmm......