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P3D v5 Textures showing shaded

wideloadwhitford

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Hello all, I cannot seem to explain why my textures are showing like this. The shaded textures do not accept any form of light regardless of azimuth or time of day. Very strange.

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Is that in sim as well or only in MCX?

I would turn on the rendering of the normal to check if that is pointing in the direction you expect. As Dom246 suggests it might be the normal is flipped.
 
Is there a reason why you are using a bump map and a normal map (for the same texture)? Try removing the bump map being used).
 
The bump map and normal map are just two names for the same map. If you have the material type set to All both will show if you select a specific sim only one is shown.
 
Arno,
Like you were asking before does it appear in both the Sim and MCX like this? I also noticed the field, "Is PBR Material* is set to False. Would MCX only use the bump map then (the.viewer in MCX and also the Sim)?
 
Doug,

In the internal material structure the BumpTexture and NormalTexture are the same variable. I have only decided to have both names in the material editor to make sure the names match the ones used in the SDK of the specific sim as good as possible. So if you set a normal texture, you also set a bump texture and vice versa.

The different exporters and the preview will use the bump/normal map when it has been set. They will never use it twice, as it is the same data.

I don't think this rendering issue is related to the bump map, more likely to be the normal of the face.
 
Dom246 said:
Have you tried flipping the normal for that plane?
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Thank you for your response. How do I flip the normal?

arno said:
Is that in sim as well or only in MCX?

I would turn on the rendering of the normal to check if that is pointing in the direction you expect. As Dom246 suggests it might be the normal is flipped.
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This is in the sim as well. Seems as if the X,Y coordinates were reversed, hence why the sun shines vice versa on the polygons.

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Which tool did you use to model this jetway? Manipulation of the normals has to be done in the modelling tool normally.

In the MCX special tools menu you find an option to flip polygons with an inverse normal. Sometimes that helps to fix it, but no guarantee :)
 
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