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FS2004 Self illumination

Sidney Schwartz

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Sketchup has no equivalent of the "self-illumination" option that Gmax does for materials. Is there an option in MCX to make a Sketchup color self illuminated?
 
Hi,

If you set the emmissive colour in the material editor it should work. This only works for FS2004 MDL files btw, in the FSX MDL format the emmissive colour is not stored.
 
Hi,

does I understand it right ?
My normal workflow, to illuminate 3D text in FS
was, to export the used color from Sketchup.
Then create an bmp from the resulting jpg and
re-import this bmp into Sketchup and match the
imported bmp with my 3D text.
Then create an duplicate from the color and rename
it colorxy_lm.bmp.
Later in MCX I assign this as the night texture.

Do I get the same result in FS9 by setting only
the emmissive color in MCX ?
And if yes, how does this affect the daylight behavior
of this color in FS9 ?

Best Regards
Wolfgang
 
Making a texture emmissive is like turning on a light inside the object. The color is made lighter and very saturated. It's also always "on", so it does not work the same as night textures, which are only "on" when it's dark. In Gmax you may be able to make night textures that are also emmissive only at night, but as far as I can tell you can't do this using Sketchup and MCX.
 
Hi Wolfgang,

If you just want the material to emit light (both during day and night) you can edit the emissive colour. This only works if the material has no texture applied.

Your approach of making a night texture will also work, but if you want it to emit one plain colour the first approach might be easier.

For FSX you need to use the night texture approach btw.
 
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