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Hey Nath,
Damage, hitpoints and magnitude are all parameters that are used in combat flight simulator 2 and have no use in fs9
No interpolate to my understanding is a way of adding pixels to a texture as i never played with this....if for some reason your effect texture is blurry, might want to turn this on or off...1 being on, 0 being off
Light is a parameter in which if the effect is used as a light. Again value of 1 is on and a value of 0 is off
Jitter still is confusing to me. Ive searched for the exact reason to edit these and just seems to be so many different kinds of jitter from audio to video so if i ever come to finding out what these parameters do..i'll let you know. If i had to take a guess....has something to do as how the quality of the effect is at a distance.
Also...by any chance, would you know where i could find a mpeg of a flame or fire...Ive searched and only could find one or two that come close to my needs but before i create the daunting task of creating alpha channels for many textures, i figured i would ask and make sure its something that would best suit my scenery.
Dave
Damage, hitpoints and magnitude are all parameters that are used in combat flight simulator 2 and have no use in fs9
No interpolate to my understanding is a way of adding pixels to a texture as i never played with this....if for some reason your effect texture is blurry, might want to turn this on or off...1 being on, 0 being off
Light is a parameter in which if the effect is used as a light. Again value of 1 is on and a value of 0 is off
Jitter still is confusing to me. Ive searched for the exact reason to edit these and just seems to be so many different kinds of jitter from audio to video so if i ever come to finding out what these parameters do..i'll let you know. If i had to take a guess....has something to do as how the quality of the effect is at a distance.
Also...by any chance, would you know where i could find a mpeg of a flame or fire...Ive searched and only could find one or two that come close to my needs but before i create the daunting task of creating alpha channels for many textures, i figured i would ask and make sure its something that would best suit my scenery.
Dave
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Hello Dave,
What do you mean by mpeg isn't that a movie or something like that?
Or is it a picture?
If it is a picture you are looking for i know where there is heaps of fire textures for fire effects.
If it is movies i dont think i have ever seen one of them
Just let me know when you see this and i will try to help you.
ps: I'm on yahoo now and will be all night if you can get on.
We seem to keep missing eachother on yahoo
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Nath.
What do you mean by mpeg isn't that a movie or something like that?
Or is it a picture?
If it is a picture you are looking for i know where there is heaps of fire textures for fire effects.
If it is movies i dont think i have ever seen one of them
Just let me know when you see this and i will try to help you.
ps: I'm on yahoo now and will be all night if you can get on.
We seem to keep missing eachother on yahoo
.Nath.
Hey Nath,
Its a movie file. What i want to do is find a clip and break it down frame by frame, save each frame to a bmp and apply the alpha channel then reanimate it as an effect which make it even more realistic. Ive been sarching for a couple of days now and cant seem to find any to my needs so im about to create my own and record it.
Dave
Its a movie file. What i want to do is find a clip and break it down frame by frame, save each frame to a bmp and apply the alpha channel then reanimate it as an effect which make it even more realistic. Ive been sarching for a couple of days now and cant seem to find any to my needs so im about to create my own and record it.
Dave
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An alpha channel is just a grayscale channel that can be used to define transparency, reflectivity, or whatever. I'm not familiar with PSP - I use Photoshop - but if you look at the PSP docs I'm sure it would show you how to edit the alpha channel.
Once you've edited the image, save it as a .tga (make sure PSP is saving the alpha channel as well as the visible colors), load that into DXTBMP, then re-save it as a .bmp. As for the type of .bmp: a DXT-1 will contain an alpha channel, but no antialiasing - so edges will be jagged. A DXT-3 will contain the whole tonal range - making antialiasing and soft edged gradations possible - but can sometimes cause weird drawing order problems in FS9.
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Once you've edited the image, save it as a .tga (make sure PSP is saving the alpha channel as well as the visible colors), load that into DXTBMP, then re-save it as a .bmp. As for the type of .bmp: a DXT-1 will contain an alpha channel, but no antialiasing - so edges will be jagged. A DXT-3 will contain the whole tonal range - making antialiasing and soft edged gradations possible - but can sometimes cause weird drawing order problems in FS9.
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Thanks Nath..i took a look at them and are all ones that i have seen, I have just decided to use the one i got as it seems to be the best i could find with alot of detail but i do appriciate you looking. Im starting the alpha now should be done later today or tomorrow. Again thanks for looking.
Dave
Dave
Dave,
I found a mpg fire here is the link: AnimatedFires
Just scroll down the page a bit there is only 1 of them.
Also there is heaps of textures on this website too.
Nath
I found a mpg fire here is the link: AnimatedFires
Just scroll down the page a bit there is only 1 of them.
Also there is heaps of textures on this website too.
Nath
Hello,
I have another question: I would like to add a sound to my SCENERY it's a truck made in Gmax and i would like to add a idoling sound i have got the .wav file but how do i add it to my scenery?
Also i would like to doit so that it activates at a certen distance.
Thank's.
Nath
I have another question: I would like to add a sound to my SCENERY it's a truck made in Gmax and i would like to add a idoling sound i have got the .wav file but how do i add it to my scenery?
Also i would like to doit so that it activates at a certen distance.
Thank's.
Nath