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ramp illumination
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Hi jonmkj
If you have done any work with effects there are a few ground effects that would do this.
A fellow named Horst8519 has a zip in the Object market that you might like.
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1772
If you would like to do this with a night texture find the ground texture of your ramp, for the screen shot I have below my test area was Taxi_concrete.dds, I found this texture in the game folder and resaved it in my working folder as a BMP and renamed it, I then made a night texture with ( _lm ) on the end. For the ground light I just darkened the texture and the made a light spot in the center. Once all my reworking of the texture is done I saved it as a DXT1 with MipMaps and put them into the texture folder of your scenery. Working with FSDS I simple made my test light post and a 100x100 polygon placing it just up off the ground, if you place in right on the ground you get some flickering that looks bad. You can see from the screen shot that the lines in the concrete don’t line up just right so I would need to move it around a little but you get the idea.
I hope this helps
Farfy
If you have done any work with effects there are a few ground effects that would do this.
A fellow named Horst8519 has a zip in the Object market that you might like.
http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1772
If you would like to do this with a night texture find the ground texture of your ramp, for the screen shot I have below my test area was Taxi_concrete.dds, I found this texture in the game folder and resaved it in my working folder as a BMP and renamed it, I then made a night texture with ( _lm ) on the end. For the ground light I just darkened the texture and the made a light spot in the center. Once all my reworking of the texture is done I saved it as a DXT1 with MipMaps and put them into the texture folder of your scenery. Working with FSDS I simple made my test light post and a 100x100 polygon placing it just up off the ground, if you place in right on the ground you get some flickering that looks bad. You can see from the screen shot that the lines in the concrete don’t line up just right so I would need to move it around a little but you get the idea.
I hope this helps
Farfy
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Hi Gera
The spot on the ground is just a night texture; the light at the top of the post is the effect
(fx_navwhih.fx) I am pretty sure it’s a default effect. If you need more in depth instruction on adding effects to FSDS objects I will help.
Farfy
http://farfyscenery.katuu.com/
The spot on the ground is just a night texture; the light at the top of the post is the effect
(fx_navwhih.fx) I am pretty sure it’s a default effect. If you need more in depth instruction on adding effects to FSDS objects I will help.
Farfy
http://farfyscenery.katuu.com/