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FS2004 Night Lighting - shape setting ?

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Hi Folks,

Quick question - built some cheesy little simple houses - for filler - using the default FS9 building textures... So these already have the LM texture sheet as well... My houses look normal during daylight - but - they don't seem to be using the "lighted" texture at night... Is there a setting in the shape file to get them to use the associated night texture ? When building the model I just mapped the surfaces to the "default" daylight texture... Kind of thought the FS9 program would know to use the LM lighted sheet for night display...

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Scott
 
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im definately no expert on night lighting, but did you make sure to convert back to DXTBMP after making the night textures? I have noticed conversion to be a primary issue when people are making night textures.
Beyond that, I am still trying to figure out the night textures and light splashing myself.
 
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Hi Scott,

Did you assign the night texture in your material as well? For FS2004 it has to go into the ambient texture slot of the material.
 
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Hey Guys,

Thanks for he responses... Yeah - I'm not making the textures - I'm just mapping to the default texture sheets that already exist - which have an associated night texture sheet...

Than must be it Arno - I'm not using the standard modeling packages - so I'll see if I can figure it out... I had thought FS9 realized there was an associated night texture for a given shape - just by the file naming convention... I guess that's not it... Then I also thought there was a variable in the shape file itself - to allow the texture to be visible/glow at night... I'll see if I can figure out your suggestion relative to my modeling package...

Appreciate the help - folks...
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Scott
 
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Hi Scott,

No, FS will not do it automatically.

Which tools are you using? Somehow it should make the MDL file (or an X file). So in that file the right information should be set.
 
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Hi Arno,

Ok - thanks... I'm using a program called "3D Crafter" previously called "3D Canvas" that is pretty popular on the other side of the other side of the fence - MSTS... I used to build steam locomotives... I export in Direct X and then make my MDL using the standard MSFS tools...

I'll see if I can figure out how to implement your suggestion...

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Scott
 
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Hi,

Sounds like you need to alter the material definition in the x file then. The ambient texture needs to be added to it.
 
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scottb613 said:
Hi Arno,

Ok - thanks... I'm using a program called "3D Crafter" previously called "3D Canvas" that is pretty popular on the other side of the other side of the fence - MSTS... I used to build steam locomotives... I export in Direct X and then make my MDL using the standard MSFS tools...

I'll see if I can figure out how to implement your suggestion...

Regards,
Scott
Click to expand...

When you run the X file through MakeMDL, go to the options, and check "HasNightMap". Even if you exported the model without an ambient texture, it will change it in the mdl on conversion.
 
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True, but that will give all textures a night texture. Might not always be what you want.
 
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Hi Folks,

Still can't get the night texture to work - model attached... I did run it through Model Tweaker and it has both the day and night texture listed... Day works fine - night never shows up... Textures based on default autogen textures... Any ideas ?

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Scott
 

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Hi,

MDL Tweaker uses _LM for the night textures, but for the texture you used the name is BLDB2LM.BMP, not BLDB2_LM.BMP. So therefore the night texture is not found.

With manual ASM tweaking you could put the correct night texture name in.
 
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Hi Arno,

Man - if you only had a dollar for every post you helped someone out - you'd be a very rich man... I think I have it now - thanks so much for your time !
:)

Regards,
Scott
 
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