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FSX Environment Map

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DXtrans

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I have been experimenting, or rather teaching myself how to make environment maps. Last night I was finally able to achieve the expected effect in MCX. The problem is after I export to FSX the face with the reflection texture is non- existent. It works fine if I do not add a reflective texture and use specular only. I was wondering if the reflective texture should convert as it's own texture or does it merge with the diffuse texture somehow? After export there are only two textures, the specular and the diffuse which is why I say that. What's the problem?

Note: no errors in the event log


Thanks for your help.
 

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Hi,

Did you save it as a cube map? That's required for fsx. Missing polygons can be caused by missing textures, so double check all textures you use are there.
 
How I made my reflection:
one diffuse texture
one specular (the same that the diffuse but with the alpha)
one reflection (the cubemap)
And in special funcionality: Blend environment by inverse diffuse alpha.
And what is better it worked, I am talking from a bad memory and with the materials setting in the pc screen. could be I forgot something.
Edit:anyway there is something no fit here I blend environment by inverse diffuse alpha, not sure but I think I no had not alphas in the diffuse texture.:confused:
Edit : checked ¡¡ this have alpha chanel too, so I gues diffuse and specular are the same.
 
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It's working great now! I was unaware that MCX was not placing the cube map 1.dds in the texture folder when I was converting as it did with all the other textures. I believe that is because it did not need to be converted?


Thanks!
 
Hi,

If a texture is already in the desired format it will not be converted in general. And I also don't think ModelConverterX can save a cubemap already, that's something I might have to fix :).
 
What I'm finding is that I cannot minimize the drawcalls in my model if I'm using a cube map on parts of it. Doing so will cause any texture with a cube map to be invisible when placed in FSX. Otherwise it works fine. My plan at the moment is just to export the parts of my model that require a cube map separately and not minimize the drawcalls with those parts. Then export the parts of the model without the cube maps allowing me to minimize draw calls on those parts separately. If I understand correctly then, if MCX could save cube maps I would not have to use this workaround. That would be cool as cool as your converter already is ;).
 
Hi,

Yes you are right. Minimizing drawcalls with cubemaps is not working now. I'll add it to the todo list :)
 
Hi,

I have made a bug fix now, from the next development release the environment map is skipped by the drawcall minimizer. It does not make sense to combine it with other textures anyway.
 
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