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FSX - Texture - 3D Objects no showing the texture

Terra Brasilis

Terra Brasilis

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Hi all, My name is Marco Almeida. I´ve been modeling for FS2004 for so time now and just mirgated to FSX and decided do start modeling for this new platform.

But right at the start I am already having problem with texture viewing in FSX.

The problem is that after modeling, creating texture, mapping, unwrapping in 3ds, setting the FriendlyName and GUID and going through the exporting and whole process of converting into BGL, when I load the object using the Object Placemente Tool, it appears all black.

The texture file extension I tried both .BMP, .DDS; and the format I tried DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5. All give me the same result: all black. I also created the mip maps.

So is it something wrong I´m doing at the modeling stage???? Or is it something wrong I am doing when converting the .PSD into DDS or BMP with Imagetool???

Anyone can help???

Thanks,
Marco Almeida.
 
Hi,

I meant: do you use phototextures or not ?
But as I don't use 3DS I think other designers can better guide you further.

Greetz. José.
 
Hi Marco,

I assume you have already verified that the textures are the correct folder and things like that?

I might help to try to figure out if the texture actually ended up in your MDL file. This can be a bit hard to see, but if you open the MDL file in notepad you should be able to see the names somewhere in all the weird symbols :).
 
arno said:
Hi Marco,

I assume you have already verified that the textures are the correct folder and things like that?

I might help to try to figure out if the texture actually ended up in your MDL file. This can be a bit hard to see, but if you open the MDL file in notepad you should be able to see the names somewhere in all the weird symbols :).
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Hi there, Arno,

yes I placed the texture at the correct place. I put the BGL at the Addon Scenery\Scenery folder and the texture at the Texture folder. Is this correct?

I didn´t know it´s possible to check the MDL file, even been a bit hard to figure out de codes.. Anyway, I´ll try to find it and soon I´ll reply here, ok???

Thanks,
Marco Almeida.
 
Arno,

the MDL file mentions the texture. But now something came into my mind....
I named the texture: amigãolateral.DDS So, my question is: is the "ã", the tilde a problem in texture naming???

[]´s
Marco Almeida.
 
Im not sure if that is the problem specifically, but it is always good practice to stick to the old file naming conventions

i.e. No spaces (use _ instead), limited number of characters, dont start filenames with a number, no wierd symbols etc....

I would suggest renaming your files regardless...
 
Hi,



I put the BGL at the Addon Scenery\Scenery folder and the texture at the Texture folder. Is this correct?
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Let's specify: ADDON SCENERY/Your scenery/scenery map and ADDON SCENERY/Your scenery/texture map. Goes into Your scenery/texture map.

Why not start making your texture again ?
1. 24 bits 256x256 extended bitmap goes into GMAX/maps
2. convert the extended bitmap in DXTBmp into extended bitmap with format DXT1.

Use short names or number or any other code as mentioned before. (hangar.bmp; 1234.bmp of H1234.bmp)

Greetz. José.

Greetz. José.
 
Timmo, Arno and all who posted, thank for the help, but finally I managed to solve the problem.

Simple, when creating the texture in PS I was saving it in 24bits and then in Imagetool I was just converting directly to DXT3.

I just saved the PSD as BMP and selected the 32bit depth and the Imagetooled to DXT3.. and Voilá!!!!! The object is perfect now in FSX!!!!!!

At last!!!!

Best regards to all, and once again: THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[]´s
Marco Almeida.
 
Hi Marco,

Why don't you load the PSD file directly into ImageTool? That allows you to save it as DXT/DDS right away. Might save one conversion in between.

But good to hear it is working now of course :).
 
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