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FSX Nightmap textures causes MDL display problems

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Hi Arno,
First thanks for your incredible work !
I'm currently designing my local airport and for that I use Sketchup 7 and 8 for the 3D modelling of buildings. MCX works like a charm converting my DAE files, but I'm now adding nightmap textures to my buildings. What is happening is the following:
- export the DAE from SU and import to MCX, mass material editing, etc, everything's fine.
- adding a nightmap texture in the Material Editor causes some faces to disappear (at day and at night), as if they are reversed or erased.

I've tried that with an exported DAE and imported MDL file, same problem.
No matter if the nightmap texture exists or not in the texture folder of the scenery.
I'm puzzled..., or am I missing something ?
 

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Hi,

Do these faces already disappear in ModelConverterX or is that something you see in FSX itself? The way you added it in the material editor seems fine.
 
Woaw, what a quick answer !

The faces are OK in MCX, they disappear only in FSX. What is strange is that not all faces disappear. I've double-checked that they are correctly oriented in SketchUp and MCX :o
If I remove the nightmap texture from the material settings, everything is back to normal (except I have no nightmap of course !)
 
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Have you coloured part in your building I meant that if there is part with costume textures and other simply colored with the paint bucket, I had the same problem but not knew exactly what was the problem
 
No, I never use colors because they add drawcalls and their effect can be achieved with a single pixel of an already used texture of the desired color.
But my first experiments with building modelling in which there were colors never add the problems you mentionned.
This looks like numeric sorcery :rolleyes:
 
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All right, this no will help sure, but I think this happened to me when I tried remove some night textures from model, well I'm totally lost in night textures and is an issue I must solve, sorry for not be of help but before I must help myshelf :o
 
This sounds like what I was noticing, which I assumed to be due to the AdditiveNightOnly mode not being read correctly.

I have now updated to the latest Development Release, which loads the mode parameters correctly ... but I still have odd beige trees at night.

To be honest, I converted the models to .3ds and put them through Max, which has fixed the problem (and the rest of the project is in Max anyway)

As far as I can tell, this is a new problem (some time in the last few months)
 
Hi,

That's a good suggestion to try the last build. If they are still weird issues, please send me the MDL and textures and I will debug it.
 
I'm using the latest build and will continue searching for a solution. I'll send the mdl and textures if I cannot find one.
Thanks all for your answers.
 
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