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itifonhom

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Hi there eveybody,
I´m trying to get some apron light effects to work. I made my own bitmaps, fx file and xml, lights show in scenery ok but: from a distance, I get to see the bitmap square tinted blue and yellow or white. As I come near the bitmat and effect shows as it should again. Also, when I use one of the "default" bitmaps for the effect, everything´s ok. I suppose it has to do with the way I save the bitmap. I made it in Photoshop, 128x128, 32bit. Anybody has any idea what I do wrong??

Thanks in advance, itifonhom.
 
Hopefully someone here who knows for sure will help you. Are you using the FSX SDK Image Tool?

I could be totally wrong here but, try saving your texture in photoshop out to a 16bit BMP. Then load up that BMP into FSX Image Tool (located: \Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Terrain SDK\ImageTool.exe" and try changing it to DXT3 and also "Add Mipmaps" prior to saving.

I believe it may be that you don't have mipmaps or that the image isn't the correct format or both. Experiment with ImageTool as it will do the job right. Good luck.

Jon
 
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