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Wouldnt it be cool if.....

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Wouldnt it be cool if we could assign lightmaps to lights in FS? For instance, map the lightmaps of the rear cabin area to Logo Lights. Map the lightmaps of forward cockpit to Instrument lights, etc....



Oh to dream..



Bill
 
That was one feature that I requested that may well have been available in FSvNext...

I had suggested using the Alpha channel's "grey level" to trigger lightmaps. It should have been fairly easy, since there are 256 "levels of gray" with which to work, and they were already checking for black/white...! :D

Of course, if you don't mind having a bunch of "duplicated mesh" it's possible to swap out "lighted polys" with "non-lighted polys" but what a kludge! :scratchch
 
I forgot that was possible. In FS9 SDK Gmax, it would be difficult with a nicely detailed cabin structure (having 2 or 3 of them to insert in a single model), but with FSX unlimited mesh limits, it is totally possible. Copy/Paste...
 
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