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problem with lights glow

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20th Aug 2006, 07:14 AM

problem with lights glow #1

ToRnado

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my glow isnt showing up properly it's supposed to look like the one on the left! i've checked all the settings all seems to be in order but it always comes out soild! how do i fix it? if it's the glow mesh i'm using max 8 so explaining how to fix it in that would be helpful.

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20th Aug 2006, 01:21 PM	#2
Piktor Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 17 Thanks: 1843 in 1 Posts 7 Achievements	well for some reason when you only have on texture file for this package. Its all black with a fade at the bottom. Where are the textures for the Glow? You need to make it transparent but I only see one texture file. Did you delete the others?

20th Aug 2006, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Piktor

well for some reason when you only have on texture file for this package. Its all black with a fade at the bottom. Where are the textures for the Glow? You need to make it transparent but I only see one texture file. Did you delete the others?

nope that's how the original was. the 1 on the left is the original.

20th Aug 2006, 02:58 PM	#4
ToRnado Original Poster Forum Resident Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 850 Thanks: 21 in 2 Posts	from what i can tell it shares the same txmt partially with the bulb and that's set to addictive so it should be transperent but it isn't. screw it i might just use another base.

20th Aug 2006, 03:18 PM	#5
atavera Lab Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 107 Thanks: 3073 in 4 Posts 13 Achievements	Try using the opacity values from the original object in the GMDC. When you import a mesh in simpe, it sets all groups to either opaque(0xFFFFFFFF) or if you use shadow option 0x3. The glow, glass, and bulb groups should have values like 5, 7, or 9

20th Aug 2006, 03:23 PM	#6
ToRnado Original Poster Forum Resident Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 850 Thanks: 21 in 2 Posts	i tried importing the mesh as shadow no effect

20th Aug 2006, 04:34 PM	#7
Piktor Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 17 Thanks: 1843 in 1 Posts 7 Achievements	try cloning another ceiling lamp

20th Aug 2006, 05:08 PM	#8
ToRnado Original Poster Forum Resident Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 850 Thanks: 21 in 2 Posts	i tried another base damn it it did the same thing why won't it go transperent??

21st Aug 2006, 05:43 AM	#9
jaxad0127 Object(ive) Investigator Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 3,848 Thanks: 2955 in 12 Posts 9 Achievements	Are you cloning them as stand-alone? If not, try it and see if it helps.
	Please don't PM me with questions. Post them in the appropriate thread.

21st Aug 2006, 10:26 AM	#10
atavera Lab Assistant Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 107 Thanks: 3073 in 4 Posts 13 Achievements	Very strange, even referencing the original Maxis TXMT resources, the glow still doesn't look right. I would think that the glow textures would use a material shader resource, but I'm not sure how those are linked to the scenegraph of an object yet. I'll do some more research on this..

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