HELP. My model bleed at dusk!!!?

[Guest]

I am working on a 737_600. My problem is that at dusk I can see through my model and at night the night textures dont show at all.Does it have something to do with the alpha channel? What shall I do?What format should the different textures be saved in?what program is best to make the taxtures. Photoshop or paintshop and why?Your help is much appreciated. I tried all kind of combinations with the alpha channels in the _L texture. Have not changed the alpha in the _T texture, because it has the right reflection at daytime.thanks in advance.Jacob

[Guest Fly1]

Jacob,I'll take a stab. Someone else chime in where incorrect or additional info.When I did the night work on my Legacy, I made a small black square in Paintshop Pro, 64 X 64, an saved as Temp_l.bmp. Next I used DxtBmp to convert this to an _l version of one of the needed textures, i.e. tire_l.bmp, with no alpha. After that I just made copies of that texture and renamed as necessary. Mine have been working OK.Great looking project!!Good Luck!!Bob C.

[Guest]

it did not help.I tried turning off multi texturing under display-hardware settings.Now the model didnt bleed.This suggest to me that the model itself is ok..so it is got to be the textures. I dont htink it my graphics card or that is the problem, because other models work with night lighting and everything....so what the heck is wrong with my textures?

[Guest Firestriker]

You haven't said which program you used to build your model. If you used gWax, when you exported and compiled in makemdl.exe, did you check the HasLightMap box?

[Guest]

May I suggest re-doing the following-Cockpit Windows-Pylons-The Pointyness of the tai;-The Elevator-Fuselage meeting point-Winglets look great!!!! Thank you for adding this detail!

[Guest Lionel Goh]

Make sure ur graphics card is set to 32-bit resolution :)

[Guest]

Has lightmap did the trick...!!Thanks everybody and thanks for the suggestions.jacob