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sk699

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Hello
Has anybody made tyre marks, black/old spots on taxiways/apron?
Any ideas what techinq to use? Adding a new layer to the ground with different black tones won't give anything realistic.
 
I'd think a photo is the only hope, pasted on a flat polygon with dxt3 alpha channel making the photo element of the mark to blend into the default.

Bob
 
Hi Bob,

As far as GMAX-styled airports are concerned I agree with sk699. I think it depends on the size of the texture. As long as it is not too big and designed properly it should be possible to achieve satisfying results.

greetz
gianni
 
uups. I mixed up the names. My reply should be for sk699 of course

sorry for that.
gianni
 
Okei thanks for the replies
But has anyone of you tried something like that?
Maybe a screenshot of the results?
 
Not really tiremarks, but I have used the technique mentioned above to make mud-marks on a grass runway. So I placed a polygon on top of the grass with a higher layer number and the texture of the marks is partly transparant.
 
sk699...I've done other similar things, but not the tire mark exactly. But no reason why it wouldn't work. Why not just try it? I've used this technique to paint "words" on taxiways. The cool thing is you can try it and see the results in an hour or so. Faster than evaluating screen shots!

Just get an overhead shot of tire marks, you can use the high res photos available from the USA urban series images, assuming your tire marks aren't different from the USA tire marks! Make a photo shop image...perhaps 256x256...make a selection with a feather of several pixels around the tiremark, save that selection as a channel, reverse the mask...and save as 32bit. convert to dxt3 in imagetool....and setup a gmax poly paste the material, and export with the fs2002 tweak to remove shadow and establish the layer level.

Bob
 
Good evening Bob
Thanks for the description. I have done the ground layers using the same method. But just thought how to make those tire things. Getting a photo to use in making textures isn't so easy.
But about the USA urban series. Could you tell me what are these and where could i get them? A little search in google.com didn't help
 
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