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Two Questions

MichaelD

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Hey everyone,

First question: I am not having any luck in getting night textures to show up in FSX. I found another thread saying that you must map your nigh texture in GMAX using the the 'Self Illumination' channel in the Maps roll-out.

Ok, I've done that but still no night texture in FSX. The texture file is just a regular bitmap, no alpha channel. I had originally mapped it in the "Ambient" slot (so now it is mapped in two places). Should I remove the ambient mapping completely (and how do I do that)? Is there anything else I should be aware of in order for night textures to show up?

Second Question: My object is pointing in the wrong direction in FSX. In my XML file, I changed the heading from '0' to '355' but it had no effect. I am I missing something else? ..Hmm, I just looked at a different example. Does the heading need a decimal point (355.00)?

Thanks.

-Michael
 
Hi Michael,

Yes, your heading should be given with a dot, you can not use a comma in the number. But only giving a value of 355 should also work. Are you sure that you recompiled the XML after you made that change and loaded the new BGL?

For the night texture, all you have to do is add the name of the night texture in the self illumination slot. You don't have to remove the ambient texture, as that is your daytime texture. If you then export your MDL again you should see the night texture with all other FsX Material settings left to default.
 
Thanks for replying, Arno.

I figured out what was wrong. I was using a "standard" texture in GMax instead of an FSX Texture. Once I changed my night bitmap to an FSX material, it showed up in the Sim.

I also got the object pointing in the right direction by changing the heading to "155.00" (180 degrees opposite of 355.00) so, It must have had something to do with the way the object was oriented in Gmax. Not sure what I did wrong.

By the way, what is the trick to refreshing the scenery in FSX without restarting?

Thanks!

-Michael
 
Hi Michael,

MichaelD said:
By the way, what is the trick to refreshing the scenery in FSX without restarting?
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If you go to the keyboard settings (where you can map the keys to certain actions), you will see there is also a "Refresh scenery" action you can attach a key to. That will reload the scenery.

But, when FsX is running, most BGL files are locked. That means you can not replace them with newer versions at that moment. So I still quit most of the time.
 
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