Reflective textures for Scenery Objects; easiest approa...

[Guest unglajo10]

HiI would like to create a reflective texture for a scenery object.If I follow the MS GMAX Material Guide I have to apply a diffuse map and a specular map with an alpha channel and it must be the same name.If I follow this guide and use a DXT3 texture I end up with transparent texture instead of reflections.Is the only way to get reflective scenery objects tweaking the asm file (change Texture Building to Texture Aircraft) and using bglc_9 to solve the problem, or is there a more straight forward solution?If tweaking is the only solution, can I create mdl files with bglc_9?Looking forward for an answer.Kind regardsJ

[mgh 89]

You need to check "Reflection" in the Maps rollout in the GMax Material Editor and assign the diffuse map to it there - otherwise you get transparency!

[arno 1]

Hi Jorg,No, in the Fs2004 gamepack it only works if you change the texture type in the ASM code as you already mentioned (it was only due to a bug in the Fs2002 MakeMDL that it worked there).So for now tweaking is the only solution, I am working on a tool that allows you to tweak the MDL files without touching the source code yourself. That will also allow such changes, but that functionality is not yet ready.

[Guest unglajo10]

Dear ArnoThanks for your answer. I hoped that there is an easier solution but I can live with tweaking the source code.Kind Regards from Muttenz/SwitzerlandJ

[Guest sdf]

You can create scenery objects with reflective texture using FSDS 2. With FSDS 3 is this not possible since it use makemdl and BGLC to compile the BGL and you have the same results like with gmax.Ciao, Sergio