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Title: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on September 30, 2011, 03:28:29 AM
Hi-

How do you edit or select what 'jet stream' (for lack of a better word) a flyiing character will use (say, ironman with his thrusters?)

I've noticed that while most of them work fine on my pc one or 2 characters have oddly pixellated/square jet streams.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: bearded on September 30, 2011, 11:41:50 AM
ffedit. i think under the fx tab.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Amazo Version 2.2 on September 30, 2011, 03:31:54 PM
going by your post in the tech sectoin, i think this is more of a skin issue than a mesh issue. bearded is righton in suggesting the use of fx to set up flight fx, however, you may still run ito the same problem. there maybe a way to fix this by adjusting the tga file, but youd have to ask someone more knowledgable than me about this.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: cmdrkoenig67 on September 30, 2011, 05:06:43 PM
As Amazo said, it could be a skin issue...But it may also be your video card having issues with the fx's alpha channels.

Dana
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on September 30, 2011, 06:21:59 PM
Quote from: Amazo Version 2.2 on September 30, 2011, 03:31:54 PM
going by your post in the tech sectoin, i think this is more of a skin issue than a mesh issue. bearded is righton in suggesting the use of fx to set up flight fx, however, you may still run ito the same problem. there maybe a way to fix this by adjusting the tga file, but youd have to ask someone more knowledgable than me about this.

thanks all. I think it is a skin issue, and possibly my graphics card as well, but interestingly, changing the tga. file that is referenced to something else (for instance I was having the probelm with 'war machine' (mesh by grenadier skin by C6 I think) but I borrowed the tga file for the jetstreams from 'ironman mk10" (in this case, 'male_basic_fire') and replaced war machines with them- and it is still slightly pixelated but far less so- almost tolerable. it's all pretty strange.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Amazo Version 2.2 on September 30, 2011, 06:26:47 PM
can you post a pic of what your seeing? and can you post a pic of what your tga file looks like? maybe it will jar some suugestions.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on September 30, 2011, 09:06:39 PM
Here's a picture of the basic problem....
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/97/opppp.jpg/

Here's the original tga file that came with the skin
(http://i56.tinypic.com/33z4578.jpg)

When I replace it, with, say, this one
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2i7l7pk.jpg)
(and certain others I have tried)

The problem is greatly alleviated though not eliminated- you still see a sort of ghostly square/pixelating from certain angles:
(http://i54.tinypic.com/21l22xx.jpg)



Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Cyber Burn on October 01, 2011, 02:32:05 AM
If you PM me an E-Mail address, I can send you an updated (.tga) file that will hopefully help you out.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on October 01, 2011, 03:22:11 AM
Hi Cyber- PM sent. Thanks for your interest
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Cyber Burn on October 01, 2011, 03:33:22 AM
Not a problem, if you don't mind, could you please post a pic of the new (.tga) file in action so I can see how it looks?
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on October 01, 2011, 03:44:08 AM
here's with your tga:

(http://i51.tinypic.com/3539hlf.jpg)

from certain angles it becomes much less noticeable.

(http://i51.tinypic.com/2wd12jt.jpg)
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Cyber Burn on October 01, 2011, 04:49:33 AM
I'll keep messing with the (.tga) file to see if I can get a better result.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on October 01, 2011, 05:10:23 AM
many thanks  ^_^
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: Cyber Burn on October 01, 2011, 01:26:19 PM
Just out of curiosity, is that the standard skin for the War_Machine mesh? It looks different than what I have.
Title: Re: question- jet streams?
Post by: ShawDAMAN on October 01, 2011, 01:51:38 PM
nope not standard, I got it on champions of freedom- courtnall6 I think. Standard one has the same problem, incidentally.