QUESTION Track texture problem

[Ternal]

Hi everyone, i'm working on a modded track converted by someone else. I want to improve graphically and i made new texture. Everything working fine, except for the bg mountain which have a sort of line on the top.

I've already cleaned the image in photoshop, redo from scratch the alpha channel, but this damn line still there. Anyone have idea on how to fix it? It's really annoying -.-

Thanks in advance

 

[fughettaboutit]

Seems like UV mapping is just a little bit wrong
so in the alpha channel make a small black line at the bottom (transparent)

 

[Ternal]

Thank you so much man, it worked well! Can i ask you another thing while i'm on it?

There's a way via ext_config to change the name of a material used? I have a material which was used for many object, but if i don't change it, i can't properly put the emissive light on it (if i do it it will give light to a lot of stuff).

There's a way as said via ext_config or i have to open the kn5 in 3DSimed or 3DSMax and do it there?
Thank you so much for your time and for your help

 

[fughettaboutit]

you can define an exact area for that material, make
[SHADER_REPLACEMENT_...]
for it, and a section
[CustomEmissive]
get params by using "ObjectInspector", mouse to drag a rectangle
some docs

 

[Ternal]

I know man about that, but when i make them work it disable other lights i have. This is drive me crazy actually.


I have street lights working. I have start and pit semaphore working. I have street yellow light blinkin working

But...

When i add lights for the gas station (to the brand logo) the street lights (not the semaphore) disappears (not the light, only the beam created with customemissive)

And... i don't know what i'm doing wrong XD

 

[fughettaboutit]

" ... it disable other lights i have ..."
sounds like you may have some sections with the same name? but ye, if you already use it in another section it will be overwritten by next section
maybe you can use meshnames instead?
not
MATERIALS=mat1
but
MESHES=yourmesh, que?tionMarkIsAPlaceholder?

placeholder like an asterisk

 

[Ternal]

i always work in this way since i "learned" this trick

;;;;;;;;;;;;;; TRACK LIGHTS ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[CustomEmissive]
ACTIVE = 1
DESCRIPTION = Track Lights
MATERIALS = light
Resolution = 512, 256
SHADER=ksPerPixelMultiMap_emissive
@ = CustomEmissive_Rect, Channel = 1, Start = "0, 1", Size = "511, 254"

[LIGHT_SERIES_...]
ACTIVE=1
DESCRIPTION= Track Lights
VISIBILITY_LEVEL=0
MATERIALS=light
CONDITION=NIGHT_SMOOTH
OFFSET=0,5,0
DIRECTION=NORMAL
DIRECTION=0,-2,0
SPOT=225
RANGE=35
RANGE_GRADIENT_OFFSET=0.4
FADE_AT=700
FADE_SMOOTH=25
CLUSTER_THRESHOLD=16
DIFFUSE_CONCENTRATION=0
COLOR=255,255,200,0.020

[MATERIAL_ADJUSTMENT_0]
ACTIVE=1
DESCRIPTION=
MATERIALS=light
KEY_...=ksEmissive1
VALUE_0=255,255,255,0.50
VALUE_0_OFF=0, 0, 0
CONDITION=NIGHT_SMOOTH
KEY_... = ksAlphaRef
VALUE_... = -193

Road have lights and the bulb of the lights have the emissive part.

then

;;;;;;;;;;;;;; TRACK SEMAPHORE YELLOW LIGHT ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[CustomEmissive]
ACTIVE = 1
DESCRIPTION = Track Semaphore Yellow Light Blink
MATERIALS = roada1696
Resolution = 1024, 1024
SHADER=ksPerPixelMultiMap_emissive
@ = CustomEmissive_Rect, Channel = 1, Start = "198.9, 546.5", Size = "66.3, 52.3"

[LIGHT_SERIES_...]
ACTIVE=1
DESCRIPTION= Track Semaphore Yellow Light Blink
VISIBILITY_LEVEL=0
MATERIALS=roada1696
CONDITION=BLINK
OFFSET=0,0,0
DIRECTION=NORMAL
DIRECTION_OFFSET=0,0,0
SPOT=180
SPOT_SHARPNESS=100
RANGE=20
RANGE_GRADIENT_OFFSET=0.15
FADE_AT=1000
FADE_SMOOTH=800
CLUSTER_THRESHOLD=7.50
DIFFUSE_CONCENTRATION=0.75
COLOR=255,223,98,0.0050

[MATERIAL_ADJUSTMENT_...]
ACTIVE = 1
VISIBILITY_LEVEL = 0
DESCRIPTION = Track Semaphore Yellow Light Blink
MATERIALS = roada1696
CONDITION = BLINK
KEY_... = ksEmissive1
VALUE_0 = 255,223,98,1.0
KEY_... = ksAlphaRef
VALUE_... = -193

[CONDITION_...]
NAME = BLINK
INPUT = ONE
FLASHING_FREQUENCY = 5
FLASHING_SMOOTHNESS = 0
FLASHING_SKIP_OFF_STATE = 0
FLASHING_NOISE_AMPLITUDE = 0
FLASHING_MIN_VALUE = 0.0
FLASHING_SYNCED = 1


Road have lights and the bulb of the lights have the emissive part and the semaphore works fine too.

What you mean with "sounds like you may have some sections with the same name"

You mean if i used the same material name in more than one [CustomEmissive]? If yes no, it seems not :-/

 

[fughettaboutit]

Start = "0, 1", Size = "511, 254"
this is wrong, open the image in "Object Inspector"

dragmouse over the area where the light should be,
it gets green and copied to clipboard
paste that into your ini

 

[fughettaboutit]

and check if
(edit: removed Dimension)
Resolution=

is same as image dimension

 

[Ternal]

i'll check it right now

Start = "0, 1", Size = "511, 254"

is right because the modder who converted the track applied a small texture for the light bulb.

The problem about other lights (when i add the gas station lights) still happen anyway, don't know if its a problem of the track itself or if i'm doing something wrong :-/