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Hi there,
Despite of many attempts in trying to find and also figure out how to add night textures, I have failed each time. I guess there must be something I'm missing but I don't know.
Let me make the issue a bit clearer. Currently I'm working on an airport scenery, Nicosia Intl (LCNC), which has been defunct for more than 40 years and as a kind of remembrance I decided to revive this "deserted" area. I have completed runway and taxi placement thanks to ADE and also SbuilderX, I have planted the required vegetation thanks to annotator in FSX SDK. So far all the arrangement are quite considerable. However, while approaching the final, I'm crashing almost every time and at same place. That is, I have almost finished terminal building through Sketchup, a huge amount of the texture mapping has also been achived. Few hours ago, wondering how it would look like, I exported the model as .dae and then imported it on ModelConverter X. All the textures and the structure seemed fairly neat. I converted the textures into .dds format through MCX' Mass Texture Editor section and later on prepared the .xml containing required info and finally compiled it. All of the textures have been copied to texture folder and .bgl to scenery. I got into the game and saw the builfing looking amazing except that it lacks the lights.
Suddenly, I began searching on google to learn how exacly the night textures are made. I have encountered several articles and discussions yet none was actually the solution to my problem.
Having reading some bunch of those written, I began editing the textures on Photoshop by adding _LM at the end of the textures that I'd like to illuminate. I decreased output to 25 on colour level section and used a soft brush with a proper bright colour. The outcome was exactly as I wanted yet after finishing this phase, I assigned each of the related textures with _LM end as night map texture on MCX, however on each try I had the error message telling me it failed to load the image. I have insisted on the process with almost all recognisable image extensions (.png, .dds"DXT3", bmp, jpeg...) however I got no result. I tried to convert them on texture converter, again the negative was what I got.
Well, I know I wrote a lot yet I really need help. Maybe all these processes I followed were not correct at all. Maybe, I really don't know how add night textures. Maybe the problem was about my manipulation style on Photoshop, yet there is one thing certain that I will sleep without being able to add the night textures on my terminal buiding.
What I request from those who have knowledge about the issue to explain me the whole process from the beginning, or even not that far, at least just after I export the .dae file. Please let me know what I am supposed to do. How can I get the most realistic results while editing the images? What have I been missing?.. I'd really appreciate the help and be thankful with all my sincerety. I hope to get a comprehensive and effective method from your experiences.
Thanks in advance.
Regards...
Despite of many attempts in trying to find and also figure out how to add night textures, I have failed each time. I guess there must be something I'm missing but I don't know.
Let me make the issue a bit clearer. Currently I'm working on an airport scenery, Nicosia Intl (LCNC), which has been defunct for more than 40 years and as a kind of remembrance I decided to revive this "deserted" area. I have completed runway and taxi placement thanks to ADE and also SbuilderX, I have planted the required vegetation thanks to annotator in FSX SDK. So far all the arrangement are quite considerable. However, while approaching the final, I'm crashing almost every time and at same place. That is, I have almost finished terminal building through Sketchup, a huge amount of the texture mapping has also been achived. Few hours ago, wondering how it would look like, I exported the model as .dae and then imported it on ModelConverter X. All the textures and the structure seemed fairly neat. I converted the textures into .dds format through MCX' Mass Texture Editor section and later on prepared the .xml containing required info and finally compiled it. All of the textures have been copied to texture folder and .bgl to scenery. I got into the game and saw the builfing looking amazing except that it lacks the lights.
Suddenly, I began searching on google to learn how exacly the night textures are made. I have encountered several articles and discussions yet none was actually the solution to my problem.
Having reading some bunch of those written, I began editing the textures on Photoshop by adding _LM at the end of the textures that I'd like to illuminate. I decreased output to 25 on colour level section and used a soft brush with a proper bright colour. The outcome was exactly as I wanted yet after finishing this phase, I assigned each of the related textures with _LM end as night map texture on MCX, however on each try I had the error message telling me it failed to load the image. I have insisted on the process with almost all recognisable image extensions (.png, .dds"DXT3", bmp, jpeg...) however I got no result. I tried to convert them on texture converter, again the negative was what I got.
Well, I know I wrote a lot yet I really need help. Maybe all these processes I followed were not correct at all. Maybe, I really don't know how add night textures. Maybe the problem was about my manipulation style on Photoshop, yet there is one thing certain that I will sleep without being able to add the night textures on my terminal buiding.
What I request from those who have knowledge about the issue to explain me the whole process from the beginning, or even not that far, at least just after I export the .dae file. Please let me know what I am supposed to do. How can I get the most realistic results while editing the images? What have I been missing?.. I'd really appreciate the help and be thankful with all my sincerety. I hope to get a comprehensive and effective method from your experiences.
Thanks in advance.
Regards...
