Landscape lighting map

  • Hello everyone, I'm currently creating some landscapes for Aerofly. I'm trying to create the lighting effect at night. I browsed through the POI folder in the game and found that they all have _light_map. However, I haven't found any references to its Settings in the tsc file or anywhere else. I hope someone can help me

  • Unfortunately, first you will have to rename all textures images in your 3D models that require a night texture with the ending <imagename>_color.png/jpg (if you have your existing models as Collada *.dae files, for example, the easiest way to do this is using a text editor such as Notepad++.).

    In a second step, make a copy of your texture image, make a dark night lighting layer/coloring using a graphics program such as Gimp, and then rename it with the extension _light.png/jpg. Compile this night-image into a *.ttx file as well.

    Example of an POI, with night lighting (with reflection map may also be quite nice for some POI's/objects):
    maui_medical.tmb
    maui_medical_color.ttx
    maui_medical_light.ttx
    maui_medical_reflection.ttx

    There is also an example in IPACS Aerofly FS Scenery SDK.

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)

  • Thank you for your answer, but do I need to set these lighting coatings in the blender or in some aspects? Otherwise, when I don't set the reference object for him, the converter will report an error: the image texture does not refer to any valid object.

  • I'm not really used with Blender. Take a look on IPACS the sample object san_pedro_faa_radar_20220713.blend included in the SDK.

    You will notice that there is only the material sanpedro_radar_buildings linked with the base color sanpedro_radar_buildings_color.bmp (means neither a corresponding _light image nor lightening of Blender set, same if you Unpack Ressources).

    So I think you have to create the ligthening "_light" images separate and manually outside of Blender.

    Enthusiast and experienced creator of enhanced Aerofly FS Sceneries and Mods. Enjoy! 8)