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FS2004 Light on the subject..

Jakes

Jakes

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or IS the subject in this case. I am new to this site, but not new to Gmax modelling. I am making the Atlas/Denel Cheetah D for FS2004 first, and then also export for FSX when I am done.

My problem at this moment is the landing light. FR Bill suggest that I may want to knock here for help as well. In short, I want to add a lightmap to the landing light so that the lens of the light also shine. I've done a few things already, but when I add the lightmap to Gmax, the whole aircraft's textures disappear.

more info on the light problem can be found here: http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1277984284/10#10

and about the Cheetah: http://www.fsworld.co.za/community/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=627&sid=ed71ab9873a6ff64a167f6c8e0f5caa4#p627

If there is a good tutorial I can follow to add a light map, I would appreciate it, so I can go over all the steps, and make sure I don't miss something?!

Thank you :)

Jakes
 
Hello Jakes,


I 'think' your problem is that you do not have light maps attached to the fuselage material(s). You can attach a pure black super small lightmap of say 128 pixels square and use that for all of the exterior textures. Then when you turn on the lights at dusk, the exterior materials should remain visible.
 
Thank you for the reply. I will add the light map to the rest, and hopefully it will solve my problem.
Enjoy!
 
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