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Questions about Effect

jtanabodee

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Hi,
I have very little knowledge to effect making. and it is quite difficult to find the document about this.
I have questions to ask:
1. Are there any differences between effect in FSX and FS2004? Any limitation of FSX effect to be used in FS2004.
2. I have explored the texture using for effect in the folder Texture of FS2004. I found that some of the textures are just plain BMP file with alpha channel, not DXTbmp. What is the preference of texture file? Should it use DXT3 in BMP in FS2004 or DXT5 in DDS in FSX? When we need plain BMP file?
Thanks for any answers and informations.
 
2.: I once tried a DXT5 DDS for use with effects an it did not work at all until I converted it to bmp using imagetool.
You need DXTbmps al long as you want to have mipmaps (e.g. for brightening in distance). If you don't need them you can use the normal one (saves a lot of export work).

Hope this helped,
Dave
 
I used DXT5 for FSX effect. When I convert my project to FS2004, I use DXT3. I think it should work. But I was wrong, I need to convert them to Extend BMP 32 bit 888-8 using DXTbmp to save. It works just fine now. But I don't know why DXT3 cause problem during Dawn Dusk and Night time.
 
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