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Chrome Help!

jaaz

jaaz

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Dear Designers,

It is me again, I am trying to apply a chrome texture to an object in my scenery mdl, I tried Ken Thompson's method after reading the tutorial and it didn't work :banghead: ! If I am not wrong I should assign the same texture that I used for the "diffuse" to the "reflcetive"??? if the texture is in DXT1 from what I understand, the alpha channel is either on or off, so if I have a little of grey in my alpha channel "difuse" will make it disappear! and if I turn it to DXT3 it will become transparent!!! And this is what is actually happenening!!!

I am using the FS2004 gamepack should I use the FS2002 gamepack or there actually is a way of performing the task with what I have?

Regards

Jad...
 
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Hi Jad,

Reflective textures do not work on scenery objects by default. In the Fs2002 gamepack scenery textures were marked as TEXTURE_AIRCRAFT as a bug, which caused it to work there.

In the Fs2004 gamepack the textures have been set to TEXTURE_BUILDING as it should be, but the reflection sub-material does not work with TEXTURE_BUILDING. So if you want to get it working again you would have to change the texture type back to TEXTURE_AIRCRAFT in your source file. If you then recompile your object it should work.
 
Sorry for bothering you Arno :o

Can I use MDLCommander for tweaking mdls from FS2004 gamepack? if yes where can I get it?

Thanks again dude!

Jad
 
Hi Jad,

Check this [thread=98]thread[/thread]. I have just updated it to include the Fs2004 gamepack as well. I think it should get you started with tweaking :).
 
MDLCommander

Hi, Arno

I also want the options pop-up dialog window back in my FS2004 gmax export. I downloaded the MDLCommander from your link (Beginners guide to source code tweaking) and read the documentation, but it seems to be ENTIRELY directed to the old version of the FS2002 gamepack.

As those things are so touchy, I'd hate to install it to find out that the gmax export doesn't work anymore.

Is the MDLCommander that we get from the link you placed there the correct one, or is there another version for gmax1.2/FS2004 gamepack?

Thanks!

Fern
 
Hi Fern,

No, it is just this version. The installation is almost as described in the document:

  1. Rename your current makemdl.exe to mkmdl.exe
  2. Rename makemdl.parts.xml to mkmdl.parts.xml
  3. Copy the exe from MDLCommander and rename it to makemdl.exe
 
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