addie Wrote:
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> salvasirignano Wrote:
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> > Hi there chaps.
> > I'm tantalisingly close to being able to
> release
> > my track, but I have a problem with it in wet
> > weather. The wet track surface is only visible
> ten
> > metres or so in front of the car when going
> > uphill.
>
> so its dry in front of the car, but as soon as you
> are there, its wet ..
>
>
>
> > When going downhill there is no problem.
>
> hm, strange thing
>
>
> > The flag for the track bits is set to 64, the
> wet
> > reflection box isn't ticked but at a lot of the
> > original tracks it isn't either,
>
> thats OK, because actually the tarmac is where the
> reflections of the other objects show up. so the
> tarmac itsself does not reflect.
>
>
> > and the camera is 0.
>
> thats OK too. 0 means kind of "all track side
> cameras"
>
>
> > Any ideas what the problem might be? When I set
> > the flag to be 0 (wet reflection ticked) the
> track
> > is transparent and I can see my scenery
> underneath
> > it, as I built the dat over my land, instead of
> my
> > land around the dat.
> >
>
> just for a test, of course be sure to have a
> backup, if you replace your tarmac by one made by
> "track from .dat" ? (in the "convert .dat
> track"-window clear all checkboxes except
> "tarmac", and choose an appropriate texture) ..
>
> but anyway, I'd rather suspect the *_track.bin
> file ...
> if you open that file in the gp4builder, it looks
> "as expected" (compared to original files) ?
> normals all normal ? and if you recreate that .bin
> ?
>
> maybe it helps
> addie
Thanks for your help addie, and Laurent too
So following your advice, i've tried the following...
I've deleted all track objects in the GP4 and recreated them from the .dat but that didn't solve it.
I recreated the .bin, but that didn't work.
However.. I have been deciding whether to use a skydome or not. This problem only came when I deleted the skydome. Putting the skydome back in the .GP4 solved it. The wet bin displays correctly. How strange!
So I guess I'll have to use the skydome, and lose the dynamic weather. Never mind!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2013 08:18PM by salvasirignano.