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Solid colour in a macro

Fern

Fern

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Hi,

I am using a macro (api) of a 707 for static display. (Time to move on, I know...)

I used Mdl-to-Bgl to create the macro and it works fine... except the headlights are always on.

I can turn the nav lights off, and that part is OK, but the headlights are white day and night, so I cannot create the macro with them off.

I'll have to edit the macro, but I don't know what polygons (among the many) are the three headlights. I know they are three hexagons.

This means that my only chance is to identify the "white" colour in the macro and change it to black or dark grey, so it will be dull in the day and not show at night.

Looking for anything with the word "color" in the macro, I find many, usually something like "Surface Color", but followed by 16 bits, for example "01 0F" or "03 0F", etc.

I tried changing a few of those, but the headlights are still white.

If the colour was described by a 24 bit sequence, such as FF FF FF, I'd recognise a "light" colour (FF FF FF FF would be total white), but there is nothing like that sequence of bits in the macro.

Does anyone know how the white colour would be described in the macro for the three headlights? I mean, what sequence should I be looking for as a hint to find the three hexagons? (The three headlights are the only polygons with that white colour and would mean the same colour would be described three times, for three polygons, no?)

Thanks!

Fern
 
Headlights are off

Hi,

I just found the answer. Ther is an obscure text in the SCASM documentstion, under "Odds and Ends", that told me what to look for.

Thanks for thinking about it, though.

Fern
 
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