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I've been trying to make night textures with modelconverterx for custom made sketchup buildings. When I upload the model, I minimize drawcalls and update all textures in mass texture editor. I then click render night and go to materiel editor, click the appropriate textures, go down to night textures and add [texture name]_LM.dds corresponding to the file type of the daytime textures. When I click enter the textures included in that dds turn a checkered black and white. Why is this? What am I doing wrong and how do I fix this?

One other side note: I tried removing the _LM from the night texture, and when I pressed enter, all the windows illuminated appropriately, however when I compiled it and placed it through ade, fsx wouldnt start up even with multiple tests and restarts, it had a fatal error message. (It was proved to be the cause because once I removed the bgl fsx started up)
 
The checkerboard indicates missing textures.

What you are doing in MCX is assigning a night texture to the model. You have to create the actual texture, MCX doesn't do that for you.

cheers,
Lane
 
I"m having the same problem even with textures that exist. In fact, I can reliably create the checkerboard effect by simply RELOADING the exact same texture file that MCX imported in the first place. Texture is there. Load same texture, poof, it disappears, thows the "Can't load texture" error and makes a checkerboard.

I made a separate post on this, but I think this is one Arno needs to look at.
 
See my reply in the other thread, it has to do with the relative paths used by sketchup. If you select a new texture in the editor these are lost and therefore you get those issues.
 
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