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I am new to all of this so I ask questions so that I do not have to reinvent the wheel.

I have but one project and doubt if I live long enough to finish it. :) :censored:

I am tweeking Golden Wings/Silver Wings to resemble what I remember what the world was like up to 1960. For those of you who are old enought to remember there were still a lot of left over airpiorts, buildings and aircraft from as far back as the 20's. For me it was the true golden age of aviation when you could still fly VFR without radios. I remembrer waiting at the end of the runway for a green light from the tower. ( something I am going to try to duplicate. )

Right now I want to add location names to the roofs of hangars and buildings. Very important stuff when IFR ment follow the RR, River, and Road,and your chart was a roadmap. :confused:

I am looking for a way to change the texture file on specific buildings without having to do a complete rebuild.

Is it possible to decompile a building, change the texture, and recomplie it.

I am assuming that it would be easier to exclude an autogen object and replace it with a library object than replace it with a new autogen object.

I will greatly appreciate any and all advice that this group can give me. I promise that keeping with the tradition of this group I will share my work and files with all as freeware. I am going on 71 and just don't need the money.

Thanks,

Dale (DoubleBounce) Evans :wave:

I love FS, it allows me to fly with a physical. :p to the FAA
 
Hi Dale,

You can alter the textures of an object, without having to decompile/recompile it again. All you have to do is load the texture in a painting program and add the changes to it you want.

But of course changing a texture will affect all objects that use it. So for default objects that might mean that multiple objects are affected by your change. If you only want to change a single copy, you will have to create a new object that you can use instead.
 
Can you?

arno said:
Hi Dale,

You can alter the textures of an object, without having to decompile/recompile it again. All you have to do is load the texture in a painting program and add the changes to it you want.

But of course changing a texture will affect all objects that use it. So for default objects that might mean that multiple objects are affected by your change. If you only want to change a single copy, you will have to create a new object that you can use instead.
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Arno,

Is it possible to clone the object and save it with another name?
Just being lazy and trying to advoid making a building from scratch.:D
~~ Dale ~~
 
Hi Dale,

If you are using Fs2004 that is slightly easier than for FsX. But still saving the MDL with a different name and then using that, will not solve your texture problem. For that you would also have to change the texture references inside the MDL. That is possible with some tweaking, but it is not really easy.
 
Adding name signs to buildings/objects

Hi, Dale

It occurred to be that some of your buildings/objects might be generic. I mean, they may be objects that are repeated many times around the FS world. In that case editing the texture may not be practical. Finding some textures can also be tricky. And there is also the possibility that the texture is so small that editing becomes impossible, unless you enlarge it to accommodate lettering.

But whatever the case, have you considered just making the signs with the names? Those are relatively easy to make, you can make them with gmax/ObPlacer or even EOD/FSSC, use DXT1 with alpha transparency for the bitmap texture, and apply them to any building, water tower, etc.

Would you be interested in doing that?

Fern
 
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