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FSXA Car Texturing

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

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Hey,

I modelled half a car, textured it and used the "mirror" (or was it "symmetry?")-modifier to get the whole car.
That way, I save texture space because it gets mirrored too.
But one little problem came up:

From far distances in FSX a black seem is visible that cuts the car.
When I get closer its gone...

seam.jpg


noseam.jpg

Is there a way to prevent this besides texturing the whole model at once?
 
Hi,

I assume your texture only really maps to the half first modeled, and is also mirrored? If so, that means you have a texture boundary at that point. Whenever you have such a texture boundary, you must avoid texture mapping right to the edge of the texture - allow a few pixels extra around all sides. If you do not do this, when FS does the mipmapping when the object is at a distance, it uses pixels from the *opposite edge* of the texture to mipmap those pixels right at the edge. If those pixels on the opposite edge are a very different color from the ones being mipmapped, a "line" will appear in FS.

Hope this helps,
 
Thanks for the hint Tim! I'm gonna try that as soon as I have some free time.

@ Jim: The "Ford Model B Pick-Up" doesn't have such a thing :)
 
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