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Specular Mapping

Hello,...

Glad you have it working....

Concerning the differences between B&W and Diffuse,... I'm not seeing any.

Though,... what could be causing your Bump maps to appear not as sharp or strong could be the fact that the alpha channel appears as "black" or transparent. What I would suggest before ANY conversion is to Flatten or remove the Alpha channel.
 
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Pyscen said:
Hello,...

Glad you have it working....

Concerning the differences between B&W and Diffuse,... I'm not seeing any.

Though,... what could be causing your Bump maps to appear not as sharp or strong could be the fact that the alpha channel appears as "black" or transparent. What I would suggest before ANY conversion is to Flatten or remove the Alpha channel.
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Hi Doug,
Thank you for the suggestions. I will try to implement it.

Thanks,
Manochvarma Raman
 
hairyspin said:
Gents, there are particular things to do to bump maps for FS, especially regarding alpha channel. Check this in the Wiki:-

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Normal_map_creation
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Thanks, hairyspin for your reference.

Unfortunately though, Manochvarma isn't using either Photoshop Pro or The GIMP which uses a Normalmap plugin (either the NVidia or otherwise). The photo editor, Photoshop Creative Cloud 2017 (CC) that he has, comes with a Normalmap creation tool already installed. Upon seeing a normal map created with such, either desaturated or not, the files are the same. The only thing he has to be aware of, prior to using the internal normalmap tool within CC 2017, an alpha channel isn't needed or necessary. The MCX conversion tool will create and convert the channels (RGB) accordingly, so it can be used by FSX. There is more than 1 way to accomplish what is needed.
 
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hairyspin said:
Gents, there are particular things to do to bump maps for FS, especially regarding alpha channel. Check this in the Wiki:-

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/wiki/index.php?title=Normal_map_creation
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Hi Hairyspin,

Yes, i have gone through the steps before and i think Saving in FSX format can done by MCX texture converter.

Pyscen said:
Thanks, hairyspin for your reference.

Unfortunately though, Manochvarma isn't using either Photoshop Pro or The GIMP which uses a Normalmap plugin (either the NVidia or otherwise). The photo editor, Photoshop Creative Cloud 2017 (CC) that he has, comes with a Normalmap creation tool already installed. Upon seeing a normal map created with such, either desaturated or not, the files are the same. The only thing he has to be aware of, prior to using the internal normalmap tool within CC 2017, an alpha channel isn't needed or necessary. The MCX conversion tool will create and convert the channels (RGB) accordingly, so it can be used by FSX. There is more than 1 way to accomplish what is needed.
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You are right Doug ;)

Thanks,
Manochvarma Raman
 
No worries Doug, I'm not an MCX user for most of what I do so wasn't aware of that. :wave:
 
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