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Loft problem

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Hello,

i'm useing the loft method to create double sided tree lines. Everything is ok without this one: in FS on the tree plane the texture is much darker than the normal texture but my problem is that somewhere it uses the normal texture brightness (look the picture). Why?
 

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lambda said:
Hello,

i'm useing the loft method to create double sided tree lines. Everything is ok without this one: in FS on the tree plane the texture is much darker than the normal texture but my problem is that somewhere it uses the normal texture brightness (look the picture). Why?
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Hi,

Interresting and beautifull. This picture gives in my opinion a nice feeling of reality and depth. And if you killed the shadow ? Would it be better ? Even trying a single row of trees ?

Greetz. José.
 
What shadow do you think?

I'm planning to place "rotate to user" trees as well but i have to place many trees. I just try to avoid too many polygons with loft.
 
lambda said:
What shadow do you think?

I'm planning to place "rotate to user" trees as well but i have to place many trees. I just try to avoid too many polygons with loft.
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Hi,

Hmmm... the shadow of Robin Hood ? Lol. I use also those 'intelligent" trees, hà. Very nice.
I heard also about the program Treeplanter. For FS9.
I placed my API trees along a line I can delete later and if the trees are not so aligned correctly, in nature it isn't either, hà. So I wouldn't use loft in you place. You can scale also some trees in order to become a natural looking row of old and young trees.
I think that by these your problem will be solved... I guess.

Greetz. José.
 
Hmm okay. But i have to use this loft method due to long tree lines :) But i also use single trees.

So the question is now that how can i disable the shadow in the asm code made by fs2004 gamepack? Or do i have to do it in gmax? If i remove the model_shadow command it only turns off the ground cast shadow.
 
lambda said:
Hmm okay. But i have to use this loft method due to long tree lines :) But i also use single trees.

So the question is now that how can i disable the shadow in the asm code made by fs2004 gamepack? Or do i have to do it in gmax? If i remove the model_shadow command it only turns off the ground cast shadow.
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Hi,

Well, what I ment was: have you still this shadow when placing one single row trees at the time ?... instead of two or more in one loft-operation ?
Sorry if I do not understand the way you are working.

Normally I "kill the shadow" in the .asm-file in GMAX (but I am running FS2002). But have you the resource-files of these trees ? Are they API's ? Were they made with GMAX ?

If you are using transparent items (like fences and also trees), then you have to set the opacity to 99% in the Material Editor before all other steps !
Maybe this is the key !


For the rest: ARNO is more qualified for tweaking. :)

Greetz. José.
 
I solved the problem thanks for the help :)
I set all vertex def normals to zero and now the FS engine do not handle the brightness on the polygons. I applied this on cross-plain trees so they look as the autogen trees. Nice :wave:
 
lambda said:
I solved the problem thanks for the help :)
I set all vertex def normals to zero and now the FS engine do not handle the brightness on the polygons. I applied this on cross-plain trees so they look as the autogen trees. Nice :wave:
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Hi,

Happy to hear that. This is Chinese for me. :D
It looked even like a 1 April joke... lol.

Bye. José.
 
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