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FSX Alpha mystery

J

Jetstreamsky

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Hi,

I could do with some pointers with the alpha used to control shine on an aircraft repaint

I'm using a paint that supplies an alpha layer, so I start with that and placed some boxes of various shades between white and black to see what the impact is in FSX, but I'm not seeing any change in the result in FSX.

When I use DXTBmp and import the alpha .bmp, I can see in the preview window that my changes aren't there. However open the same file with IrfanView and I see my changes?????????????

So I've tried converting to greyscale before saving the .bmp and importing again, but still no change.

My changes simply don't get included for some bizarre reason.

I've run out of ideas what to do, so all help is gratefully received

Thanks

Allan

alpha0.jpg

Paint kit default

alpha2.jpg

My trial version

alpha1.jpg

what I see with DXTBmp
 
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