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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
An idiot's giude to backlit gauges
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This tutorial is for gmax but the sim and makemdl requirements are the same.
Since you already have a VC knowledge, adding the night lighting is pretty simple.
It requires that you add a self illumination texture to the $vcxxx, and provide a light map (xxx_L.bmp) of the same name as the vc texture.
The light map texture can be any size (power of 2 and same aspect ratio as the main bmp), can be as simple as a gray bmp, but if detailed, must be inverted vertically, and be placed in the texture folder.
Just scroll down to the night lighting section of my tutorial.
http://www.flightsimonline.com/tutorials/VCTextures.htm
EDIT: And just to be clear, bmps must be power of 2 (1024x1024, 1024x512, 512x512, 1024x256, etc.) They do NOT have to be square. Use of largest possible size for best resolution.
Since you already have a VC knowledge, adding the night lighting is pretty simple.
It requires that you add a self illumination texture to the $vcxxx, and provide a light map (xxx_L.bmp) of the same name as the vc texture.
The light map texture can be any size (power of 2 and same aspect ratio as the main bmp), can be as simple as a gray bmp, but if detailed, must be inverted vertically, and be placed in the texture folder.
Just scroll down to the night lighting section of my tutorial.
http://www.flightsimonline.com/tutorials/VCTextures.htm
EDIT: And just to be clear, bmps must be power of 2 (1024x1024, 1024x512, 512x512, 1024x256, etc.) They do NOT have to be square. Use of largest possible size for best resolution.