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P3D v4 Gauge brightness at night

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Hi, I've made a $vc gauge sheet for this panel. I'm trying to get it to light up at night, so for the emissive texture I have it set the same as the diffuse. My issue is that the whole panel is "lit up" at night. (naturally this is expected since the whole panel face is mapped as opposed to seperate faces for each button etc.) Is there a way where I can manipulate the texture sheet to have for example only the buttons or text light up and not the whole face of the panel?
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Use a night texture instead. The night texture belongs in the plane's texture folder not in the plane's panel folder.

FSX Emissive Textures - New VC Lighting Tutorial

FSX Emissive Textures And How they Relate to Virtual Cockpit Lighting by Bill Leaming Now available in downloadable PDF format here: http://www.freeflightdesign.org/tutorials/FSX_Emissive_Textures_and_VCLighting.zip See the thread below for FS9 Version of the Tutorial...
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hi again tom!

I have tried that, but I don't seem to be getting any results. I'm not sure if its because of me using .dds or .bmp or the alphas (orientations?), but it appears as if there is no emissive textures at all
 
Hello

First of all, if for some reason the link kindly provide by Tom, I attached the PFD file. From what I am seeing, you probably need to take a closer look to the file -by the way, nicely written by Fr. Bill Leaming-.
At first glance, make sure you have two textures properly assigned to the specific material used in all your "planar" polygons: One named $Vc as DDS with No Alpha channel (DXT1 to DXT5 file extentions; if I can recall for FSX and P2D) and other one named (for example) Vc_L (same deal).

I hope this make sense to you and good luck!
Sergio.
 

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