Hi i am trying to change the REGISTRATION on a Virgin atlantic 747 but keep getting funny textures at night. It looks

like part of the repaint at night is showing day textures, and the lights dont match against the body of the aircraft.

 

1) I first converted the DDS file into a format in which i could edit it in photoshop.

 

2) I then changed the reg and saved it as a DDS file using the plugin from photostop.

 

Am i missing anything.

 

Kind Regards Chris Harwood

Yup, you may also need to change the alpha channel and possibly a related other texture too, such as a light or bump map one, which may also still have stuff related to the old reg on there. Open all textures that are related to that part of the aeroplane, not just the livery one, and look on the 'channels' palette in Photoshop. Yoiu may see a red, green and a blue channel, which controls the colours, plus an additional channel which can control other stuff.

 

The channels often control how shiny or reflective textures will be, or sometimes how transparent they are, such as on spinning propeller graphics. They work off reading 256 levels of shade, for example, completely black area on an alpha channel can make the main texture transparent, completely white can make it opaque, and a mid grey colour could make the texture be partially transparent. This is how stuff like tinted windows or windows with wiper marks on them are created.

 

Al