* Curtis L. Olson -- Friday 13 May 2005 14:22: > can kalkan wrote: > > is there a function in 3d to give night lights effects or fg do it > > itself. can i give a height to night on manhattan buildings lights? > > If you wrap your model in an xml tag, you can do a bunch of different > LOD and animation functions. Take a look at the radio tower models and > the rotating beacon model ... both of them have lighting that becomes > active at night.
Also look for the "material" animation in this context. It allows to replace
a day texture with a night texture depending on the sun angle.
Documentation in $FG_ROOT/Docs/fgfs-model.html, example in $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/bo105/Model/bo105.xml
m.
thanks for advices ...it looks night textures will be good idea. but toooo many work....i knew there are some models containing its own light functions but i am looking for a shortcut.
i ve finals following two weeks and after i import a partial 3d's into scenry to test performance.
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