General Question A Question for you experienced Wings 3d Users Out There

[Spacecowboy48]

I'm just getting started with my own add ons and am learning Wings 3d.
Has anyone experienced this: If you snapimage a light-colored texture that you prepared in Paint and saved as a .bmp file onto say, a flat mesh object, then export it to Orbiter, it shows up darker than it was in Wings 3d. I don't know enough yet about Orbiter or Wings 3d to be able to tell what I'm doing wrong. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Hlynkacg]

Check your material settings.

Default is .8 RGB diffuse

 

[Spacecowboy48]

Wings 3d Question

The diffuse on new material seems to be set to 1.0, and that is what is giving me the problem. I didn't know the material settings affected snapimage.

 

[Hlynkacg]

They don't, They affect orbiter.

try setting your diffuse to 0 or 100% red and see what happens.

 

[Spacecowboy48]

Wings 3d Problem

I set it to 0.0, so it looks white and that helps a lot. THANKS!

 

[paddy2]

http://www.orbithangar.com/zipList.php?ID=4124
Material generator program by AR81
This will allow you to create a piece of text to paste into the end of the .MSH file to give you better control over the material values. Once you find a set of values you know work for you, its one less thing to worry about on wings

 

[Spacecowboy48]

Wings 3d Question

Thanks Paddy. I'll check that out. :thumbup: