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HELP! how do I make my textures shiny? (Read 400 times)
Dec 24
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, 2006 at 5:45pm
Bird-Nerd
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well, how do i make my textures shiny (with DXTBmp)? I know it involves alpha, but I can't figure it out. and it would be cool if i could get these D!@# textures to be shiny once and for all!
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Dec 25
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You can do it a few way's and it really depends on weather the aircraft is made to have reflections. Simply, go to ALPHA, "create alpha template", double click on the alpha and save as a normal .bmp format. Then, edit that template as what you want to have reflective, Black=is fully reflective w/trans, Grey=semi reflective, w/out trans white=High gloss. Once you have done that open in DXTbmp and save as DX1/DX3, and I like to save without MIPS. Open your original texture file, and then "Alpha", "Import Alpha Channel", Then export "Alpha Channel" and specify any name. Then save your original texture as DX1 or DX3, place both textures, "original" and "Alpha", into your texture folder, That's all. Reason why my method includes keeping the alpha separate from the original is just in case if I want to edit the reflection elements. -Hope this helps, it's relatively enough info, should help, or give ideas.
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Bird-Nerd
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aaaah ok
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