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Texture beginner - how to make night light texture like this for MSFS?

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Karlos Ye

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- Help needed for making NIGHT TEXTURE

Hi there.

I am a texture beginner and I am wondering if I can have some general guidance on adding a night light effect on a photographical texture. As you can see from my screenshots, I have a white-colored roller door texture and I would like to add a spotlight emitting light from the top. How can I add this light effect using GIMP, so that it looks like the 2nd image (these are not my work)? Should I just blend 2 layers together, 1 layer for texture and another layer for light effect?

I have searched over the Internet and I couldn't find any resources/tutorial on this. Thank you very much for your help!!
day texture.JPG
night texture.JPG
 
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You're better off using a real 3D light source instead of a texture.
This way you can see the light effect not only on your object, but everywhere (e.g. ground) where the light reaches. ;)
 
zlin142 said:
You're better off using a real 3D light source instead of a texture.
This way you can see the light effect not only on your object, but everywhere (e.g. ground) where the light reaches. ;)
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Thanks for your reply!! I am using Blender and I did try using 3D light, but seems that for Spot light, the size (the range radius which the light emits) does not seem to be modifiable. I do change the size in blender, but MSFS does not recognize that. Is there any way to change the size of the spot light?
 
zlin142 said:
You're better off using a real 3D light source instead of a texture.
This way you can see the light effect not only on your object, but everywhere (e.g. ground) where the light reaches. ;)
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Never mind. I have already figured out how to adjust the size for spotlight. In the model gltf file, there is a parameter key called: cone_angle. Adjusting this parameter would adjust the size
 
Karlos Ye said:
Never mind. I have already figured out how to adjust the size for spotlight. In the model gltf file, there is a parameter key called: cone_angle. Adjusting this parameter would adjust the size
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The cone angle works fine for me in Blender, maybe depends what version you're using. It works fine on Blender 3.6 and the modified exporter addon from github.
 
Karlos Ye said:
Never mind. I have already figured out how to adjust the size for spotlight. In the model gltf file, there is a parameter key called: cone_angle. Adjusting this parameter would adjust the size
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Good to hear that your problem is solved. ;) Yeah, light parameters perfectly adjustable in Blender, I always use this option for my projects.
 
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