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Feb 20^th, 2004 at 5:39pm

Woodylepic Offline
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Hi
i have finaly got a vc cockpit working at day (hall vc gauges sho ok ) but whene the night come up no vc ??? Sad

i know that for making a night vc i have to put a self eluminating on my $vc texture in Gmax

i have no texture for the vc in the panel folder (have one for 2d)

hall is draw on the invisible $vs01 texture
i have check the square self iluminating and put texture black

what i have made wrong ? the vc sho only at day Sad

pls help

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Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2004 at 8:49pm

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I replied in the other thread ... but here is the text for the night time question.

You must have assigned a self-illumination map to the $texture in gmax. To make that map, do the following.

To light up the night vc panel, you need a texture named the same as the day texture except end name with _L. (Like vcbackground_L.bmp)

This texture can be created by copying the day texture. Now darken the texture alot, where the gauge holes are, replace with light shades of gray or off-white, then invert the texture so it is upside down, then add a black (0,0,0,) alpha to it and save as a DXT3 in the texture folder.

See the example from this link.

http://www.flightsimonline.com/tutorials/Image29.jpg

And, revisit the link I posted in the other thread.

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Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2004 at 10:03pm

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ok but is you not have a texturebut only a $vc texture like my panel what do we do ???

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Reply #3 - Feb 21^st, 2004 at 8:55am

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Woody,

The $texture is used only to identify the projection planar's coordinates to FSim. You must use the File=texturename parameter in the panel.cfg vcockpit section to name the panel texture you wish to have displayed there.

You can use a copy of the 2D texture to make the 3D texture. Just put a copy in the panel folder, and name it in the panel.cfg in the File= parameter. Then make your night light map the same name with the _L.

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