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by atco
Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:12 pm
Forum: English Support Forum
Topic: FS9 and shadows!
Replies: 12
Views: 30746

Re: FS9 and shadows!

No problem, glad we got there in the end :) Happy to help. Its unfortunate that almost every addon scenery still contains there textures and from even large, respected developers like FSDT, LatinVFR, Aerosoft, UK2000 so its by no means unusual ;) There is an incredibly useful utility called Alpha se...
by atco
Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:13 pm
Forum: English Support Forum
Topic: FS9 and shadows!
Replies: 12
Views: 30746

Re: FS9 and shadows!

Thorsten I'm talking about the FS9 product. Using your installer there are nineteen textures that are DXT3 without alpha channel, you are simply not correct in saying that all your FS9 DXT3 textures have alpha's - they do not. Go ahead, run the installer and then open the textures I listed in imaget...
by atco
Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:29 pm
Forum: English Support Forum
Topic: FS9 and shadows!
Replies: 12
Views: 30746

Re: FS9 and shadows!

Erik is only slightly correct, the issue with missing alpha channels (Actually its the setting of the Alpha flag within the texture) is in DXT3 textures, not DXT1 because as you rightly state DXT1 is quite happy with or without and alpha. However DXT3 and DXT5 are certainly not, and you will induce ...