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FSX Bumpmapping in virtual cockpit

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Marcel_Felde

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Hello everybody,

I have a strange behaviour on lighting in the virtual cockpit if the materials use bumpmaps: The parts are illuminated as if the light is coming from the reversely direction: If the materials with bumpmap are lighted, those without are dark and vice versa.

Also, if I place a cockpit light fx, everything with bumpmaps gets white/yellow as if there where no textures at all.

Apart from those two issues, the 3d effect is ok and aligned.

Does anyone have experiences about this issue or better: a solution? :o

Thanks a lot and greetings,

Marcel
 
Trying 3 different methods of creating normal maps and also using a default-bump texture from microsoft resulted in always the same scenario: Those parts with normal maps are shaded quite the opposite as parts without bumpmapping. And at night, a very weak vc light effect (20,20,20) still produces a dazzling brilliant panel (with normal map) and correct lighted instruments (without normal map).

So I assume that it is a matter of the settings in gmax or normal maps and virtual cockpits are not compatible... at least not at night. If anyone could tell me the opposite, I would be very happy. ;-)
 

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