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Some of you may or may not have noticed the use of light maps on some of the aircraft - for example, the A321 has two bitmaps with *_LM.dds naming. Others you see have *_night.dds. Well, I just posed this question to Adrian Woods, an ACES developer, and here was his reply:
Owen wrote:
If a part has a light map, for example, I see in the heavies several *_LM.dds - does this need to be designated in the material in the self-illumination section?
Adrian wrote:
Yeah. The only time it doesn't need to be defined in the Self-Illumination section is if you leave it as a standard material. Then it will revert to FS9 functionality. The nice thing is now you can name your night maps anything you want.
Best regards,
Owen
Owen wrote:
If a part has a light map, for example, I see in the heavies several *_LM.dds - does this need to be designated in the material in the self-illumination section?
Adrian wrote:
Yeah. The only time it doesn't need to be defined in the Self-Illumination section is if you leave it as a standard material. Then it will revert to FS9 functionality. The nice thing is now you can name your night maps anything you want.
Best regards,
Owen