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[SJ]HPI-rcr

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See Thru Elan???
« on: May 21, 2008, 07:12:06 pm »
Just a quick little question.... I seem to not have interior showing in the Elan, when viewing from outside the car...???

Has anyone else had this problem?

I am working on a small set for the car, but it looks silly with no interior textures. The .gtl files are all there, and so are the .dds files?

Help Please.
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[SJ]Nailz

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2008, 07:19:56 pm »
Isn't that so the wee fella can pedal??? lol
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Panther

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2008, 09:07:18 pm »
Have you painted the interior? ifso, id suspect you have an alpha channel saved that makes the interior transparrent, either that or you saved it as a dxt5 with alpha instead of DXT1 - no alpha. The latter is what I did and I couldnt see my skin. Changed the dds format it saved in and it was fine.

just a thought.
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[SJ]Byron

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2008, 10:37:59 pm »
Might be old news, Jeff, but he interior textures - as viewed from outside (if you see what I mean) appear on the 'body1' template - are they still intact?  I'm wondering if you maybe made the Photoshop layer with the dashboard on invisible or something..?
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[SJ]HPI-rcr

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2008, 10:58:19 pm »
Yeah, all are there, and no transparent layers, there is a  cockpit.gtl file and an ultracockpit as well, but that only has the window banner in it. The body1 is the body template, and that appears fine, as you see in the picture... I am lost.

Jeff
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[SJ]Jarkko Rantajoki

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2008, 11:05:07 pm »
Have you altered any genstring stuff as you often seem to do?  rotfl
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[SJ]HPI-rcr

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2008, 12:39:14 am »
Quote from: [SJ]Drunken_Predator on May 21, 2008, 11:05:07 pm
Have you altered any genstring stuff as you often seem to do?  rotfl


nope, used the  number 623 .car file from RSP downloads.
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[SJ]Jarkko Rantajoki

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2008, 01:09:57 am »
Well well.. i really dont know then! few things to test:

1.Convert a .car file from a working addon car and see if it works.
2.Try a texture file from different addon car and see if its the same.

I sometimes save accidentally in wrong texture format and that caused various very odd things to the cars occasionally.
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[SJ]HPI-rcr

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 03:19:06 am »
Okay, I got it sorted, it seems that DX3 is not supported on the Elan, for some reason, the body texture on this car is not read the same way as the others... now, I have cockpit and headlamp bezzles which were missing as well......

Thanks for all your help fellas.

Jeff
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[SJ]Jarkko Rantajoki

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2008, 03:26:56 am »
Quote from: [SJ]HPI-rcr on May 22, 2008, 03:19:06 am
Okay, I got it sorted, it seems that DX3 is not supported on the Elan, for some reason, the body texture on this car is not read the same way as the others... now, I have cockpit and headlamp bezzles which were missing as well......

Thanks for all your help fellas.

Jeff


DXT3 is not suggested to use at all in the cars.. wonder where you got that info?
DXT1 or DXT1 with 1 bit alpha for body. (depending if there is alpha channel required or not) lol
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[SJ]Byron

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2008, 08:49:35 am »
Glad you got it sorted, mate.

Like Jarkko says, you should only be using DXT1 ARGB 1 bit Alpha or DXT1 (RGB) No Alpha for the body files and DXT5 ARGB (Interpolated Alpha) for the window files.

How come you had it at DXT3?
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[SJ]Sh1te R1der

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2008, 03:08:58 pm »
Quote from: [SJ]Drunken_Predator on May 22, 2008, 03:26:56 am
Quote from: [SJ]HPI-rcr on May 22, 2008, 03:19:06 am
Okay, I got it sorted, it seems that DX3 is not supported on the Elan, for some reason, the body texture on this car is not read the same way as the others... now, I have cockpit and headlamp bezzles which were missing as well......

Thanks for all your help fellas.

Jeff


DXT3 is not suggested to use at all in the cars.. wonder where you got that info?
DXT1 or DXT1 with 1 bit alpha for body. (depending if there is alpha channel required or not) lol

Quote from: [SJ]Byron on May 22, 2008, 08:49:35 am


Glad you got it sorted, mate.

Like Jarkko says, you should only be using DXT1 ARGB 1 bit Alpha or DXT1 (RGB) No Alpha for the body files and DXT5 ARGB (Interpolated Alpha) for the window files.

How come you had it at DXT3?


WTF! lol rotfl The matrix has you!
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[SJ]Byron

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2008, 04:35:27 pm »
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[SJ]HPI-rcr

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Re: See Thru Elan???
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2008, 10:48:41 pm »
it was working fine, and bringing some great effects.... see my learing curve peaking now, and still on its way up, and still climbing...

thx all

Jeff
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