Hi Everyone,

I am busily working on an FPSC(R) exporter for Forester Pro, the tree and plant creator, that will generate meshes, with LODs, textures and fpe files. It is nearly there, meshes import, UVs seem to work, but I am having a bizarre problem. The trees look like they are glowing (see below)....which I am assuming means they have a specular set to 1?



I am puzzled...diffuse texture is showing, normals seem okay, I've created a black specular texture and a flat normal texture... Setting the fpe file to character_basic.fx from entity_basic.fx makes the trees just disappear..for some reason. Do the normal and specular maps need to be specified in the x file (the diffuse is) or does reloaded look for textures with the same name as the diffuse and _S, _N subscripts?

Any suggestions to prevent neon trees would be welcome.

Best,
GrumpyOne

Can you post a picture of the texture sheets?
reloaded does look for the same name for all the textures used for an object. Somename_d.dds, somename_n.dds, somename_s.dds.

If you have a texture for this somename_i.dds, this is an illumination map in reloaded and if it is bright, might explain the glowing of your textures.

the texture should be specified in the FPE file and it will automatically grab the normal and specular of the same name but with _S and _N for specular and normal so you would have:

tree.x
tree_D.dds
tree_N.dds
tree_S.dds
tree.fpe
tree.bmp

Hi Guys,

I think I solved it, I had illegal values in the normal map. I guess this makes sense.

Grumpyone

Sounds interesting .

Dave

Look forward to receiving a test tree so I can try it with V1.009