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No Night Textures

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skyjunkie

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Hello,

first I want to thank Don for his great tool,
which I discovered recently!

My main interest for its use is to create static
aircraft,that are illuminated at their position
in the evening or night,to replace AI-aircrafts.
that appear like black holes,parked in the
bright light of aprons.

SAMM works fine in most aspects,
if I check the doors open or cargo doors open option,
my static aircraft will have open doors,
but although I have the night textures
box checked,my static aircraft remain dark.

If I look at the SAMM texture editor,
the light maps are actually unchecked
and if I try to give them a check,appears the message
'the use of night textures is controlled from the Main Panel'.

And as I said above,the night textures box at the main panel
is checked.
I looked at the texture folder of the static aircraft
-and no,the light maps of the original aircraft are not there.
So I copied the light maps over to the static aircraft texture folder
-no effect!
I tried this with several aircrafts like the Project Airbus A320,
the FAIB B737-800 or the POSKY B737-800.

So it seems,the light-on/light-off switch does not work for me...

I am using version 2.2.03 of SAMM for FSX in Win7.

Any help or a solution would be very appreciated,
I really want to get rid off those black dark parked AI-aircraft,
that spoil the otherwise very beautiful airport night-sceneries,
that we can get for FSX or P3D.

Kind regards,Jens
 
Jens, no one has report this situation previously and I'm not sure I have ever tested for it.

I'll investigate ASAP and, hopefully, will be able to provide a fix.

I'll respond in this thread. Thanks for the report.

Don
 
Please download and test SAMM Development Release 2.2.03(d), now available from http://stuff4fs.com. (Be sure to use the Development Release menu button.)

I have tested the fixes with the stock FS9 B737-400 and the stock FSX b747-400. Due to aircraft design flexibility, I can't guarantee that the lights will show for all aircraft, but it should work for most.

Please report your test results. If satisfactory, I'll re-release generally.

Don
 
skyjunkie, please confirm whether or not the development release resolves your night texture issues.
Don
 
Hi Don ,

thank You for Your time and efforts,you are dedicating my problem.

I just downloaded your development release.

Sorry to say,for the aircrafts I used before,there are still no light maps.
And still no check in the texture editor behind the light map with
night textures checked in the main panel.

I also tried manipulating the default aircrafts as you did,but strange enough,
with any stock aircraft that I load with Samm appears the message:
"texture folder not found" or "model folder not found".

But my stock aircraft exist definitly in my FSX as ai-aircraft
and texture folders and model folders are where they should be...

I will be on holiday during the next week,
but would be glad to hear from You afterwards.

Best regards,Jens
 
Sorry to say,for the aircrafts I used before,there are still no light maps.
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As explained in the manual, aircraft developers use a variety of techniques to accomplish their design goals - not all compatible with SAMM. If you provide me with a link to your aircraft so I can download and check it (assuming it's freeware), I'll be happy top do so. If it's a payware aircraft, then I need bits from your aircraft folder, namely the model folder, one texture folder and the aircraft.cfg file. Be aware that will be a technical breach of the license under which you obtained the aircraft (not that I plan to do anything with the files except diagnose your case), so use your own judgement in that regard.

And still no check in the texture editor behind the light map with night textures checked in the main panel.
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This is a secondary issue, if an issue at all.

I also tried manipulating the default aircrafts as you did,but strange enough, with any stock aircraft that I load with Samm appears the message:"texture folder not found" or "model folder not found".
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To my recollection, this has never before been reported. So, I suspect it's due to some uinique configuration issue on your system - perhaps Language or location. If you are running with a language other then English, please try again with English.

If you wish to pursue this further on your return, please identify the aircraft of concern and provide me with a link or aircraft data as applicable.

DOn
 
Hey Don,

after trying out more aircrafts,
most of them now show up with night-textures after their conversion.

Maybe I just had bad luck with the selection of the first planes,
which I tried to convert with SAMM.

Thank You so much for Your tool and Your time,
You are dedicating to us,Don!

With Your tool I can improve my sceneries in
a way,I dreamt of for a long time,
SAMM is really highly appreciated!

Kind regards,Jens
 
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