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FS2004 "Lit" Light Textures in Daytime

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Hi all

Apologies if this has already been posted - not yet been able to find an answer!

I'm having an issue with a lit texture during the day. During the night, the texture is "lit" all the way around as expected by a night light. However during the day, only half is lit and the other half is "shadowed" as it is not facing the sun. Is there any way to remove the sunlight effects on a texture to just have a lit texture during daylight hours?

Cheers in advance
Will
 
I believe in MCX there is an option for something about polygon normals that fixes this problem, but I don't know what it's called and if it is available for FS2004 (may be FSX only). It might be Unify Normals?

In the Vertex List for MDL Tweaker II (which is for FS2004) there is a button called Unify Normals - that may be it. Press that and then press Update.

Hope this helps,
 
Hi,

Yes, for fs2004 you can do this. There are some options.

One is to adjust the normal so that it points upwards, than you get the same shading on all sides and not different levels of lighting for different sides of the model.

Another option is to set the emissive color to white, if I remember correctly that will blend with the model in fs2004 (although it is a long time ago I modeled for fs2004, so I'm not 100% sure anymore).
 
Hi both

I don't really want to use MDLT as I don't believe it give out the ASM which I like to keep to modify by hand - unless there's a way to do that?

I've tried to edit the normals in GMAX but the only things I've been able to do so far is to show and flip them. Unifying them in GMAX didn't appear to do anything. What is the best way to edit them?

Also, is the emissive colour the "Self-Illumination"? If so that is already fully white and the non-sun facing side is still shadowed.

Thanks
Will
 
Hi,

In ModelConverterX you can set the material attribute assume vertical normal to true. For fs2004 mdl files that's the same normal tweak as mdl tweaker does.
 
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