Hello,

I need the int_halo.tga texture with a transparent background instead of black. Could you create it for me please, gap ? It's located in Materials.dat, at the end of the list.

PS : @ Anvar1061 : your post is empty.

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But in this way?

OK now ! :up:

Hi Kendras, unlike gif and png, the tga format doesn't allow transparecy to be applied straight to the RGB channel. Transparency information can be stored in the alpha channel though. If that is what you meant, please download the following texture:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/7u9pp...h/int_halo.tga

For your information, that's what I did:
- took the SH5 version of the texture which is identical to the one used in SHIII, but bigger (256x256 instead of 128x128 pixels);
- added an alpha channel to it;
- copied the RGB channel in the alpha channel;
- made the RGB channel solid white;
- saved as a RLE-compressed 32-bit tga.

If need be, you can resize the texture to its original size, restore the original RGB texture (copying it from the alpha channel) or save as uncopressed tga. Let me know if it helps :salute:

@ Anvar1061

Any remark? :)

What is any remerak?
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Oh sorry, I meant "any remark?", my bad for the mistyping :88)

I get CTD at 85% of the load of a single mission with all the fixes of the required my GWX Rus files. In NYGM this lighthouse only works in 1940!

Thank you for your reports Anvar, they are of great help :)

As far as I know, before you joined our little team, our lighthouse had only been tested over SHIII + GWX Gold (me), and WAC (Kendras). MLF has also been helping us with alpha-testing, but I ignore his mod loadout.
More extensive tests to ensure compatibility with the most common megamods will be carried out during the beta-testing stage. :up:

This CTD might be caused by the lighthouse having been set as type 407 (Naval Base) starting from alpha v12. I am not sure yet that this is the best unit type we can use for our lighthouses; we might switch to another unit type in one of the next versions, but if we kept it, it would enable our lighthouses having their names printed on the navigation map, similar to ports.

Getting back to the crash you have repoted, your Russian-localized version of GWX might not like the map label currently set for our lighthouse. Please open Lighthouses.mis with a text editor, and try replacing the orange text in the following line with any cyrillic text migh be fit:

Let me know if that solves the problem

To be honest, all my tests have been carried out using the date chosen by Kendras for his testing mission (March 1, 1940). The date-triggered CTD you are reporting might be caused by some lighthouse equipments -which, on turn, have other configurable equipments linked to them- being removed from the model starting from June 25, 1940.

If that was true, the CTD migh not be megamod-related, and it might happen when the game tries placing an equipment on top of another equipment which is no longer in place. If that was the case, a possible fix could be "switching off" "child equipments" as well as their "parent equipments".

I will investigate on the issue and I will keep you informed on my findings :salute:

Yes, thank you Anvar. :up:

Correction : I'm testing with vanilla game, but modded with WAC 4.1 terrain and WAC 4.1 locations.

I think it's a very good idea, and it does not cause any problem.

The CTD is probably due to the Locations.cfg file in Terrain folder. You have to install manually the new locations in your own Locations.cfg file (ignore the Brest_U_Bunker new entry) from line ; LIGHTHOUSES, and correct the numbers in each [Location ---] .

I've tried to launch the mission in 1945, and no CTD occured.

Patch 1 for V12
 

Results from my testings on V12 :

- textures are shown correctly, but I don't see any difference with and without specular map controller.

- else, all is working fine ! :up:


Here are the modifications I've made :



D/L link : http://www.mediafire.com/file/vely5j...2_-_Patch_1.7z


Note 1 : This is a "patch", so it contains only the corrected files.

Note 2 : the foam effect and its sound might be buggy sometimes. It may come from the particles time settings, or from my old computer with very low graphics specs, so I let you test by yourself. The wind speed must be 15 m/s.

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@ Kendras

Have you seen my post #485?

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lighthouse text labels are much more smooth now, yet I can see some unwanted effects too: they are visible at lower zoom levels, meaning that the map will look a bit messy when there will be many lighthouses around the coasts, and no matter how hard I tried finding an paragraph end marker which works for those labels, I couldn't find any: Lighthouse names and their shortened characteristics must be on the same line.

A question: do enemy units still attack our lighthouse set as naval bases?

I don't think so. I am testing over GWX, and the Locations.cfg file included in the last beta (which I took from you, with some basic modifications), doesn't cause any crash. I must be something text-related :hmmm:

Tested with v12?

Oh yes, sorry. So, this was exactly what I was searching for, but it didn't help to sort out the idea I was following. Thank you anyway. :up: These .tga with colored background are something very strange to me. The same thing happens with trees' textures. And in game the background is transparent... :hmmm:

Yes.

The effect can be subtle: make main texture's RGB channel solid gray to see what a difference the specular mask makes. Contrast/luminosity/gamma of the alpha channel might require to be tweaked separately for each material, and material's "Specular strength" attribute raised a bit for the effect to become more obvious :yep:

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Good :yeah:

Testing your patch right away :salute:

My pleasure :salute:

Tree materials are hardcoded; it is possible that they have been coded so that their texture's background color is transparent in game. Other textures require (semi-)transparent areas to be painted as grey/black in their alpha channel, and the "enable alpha blend" flag of their material to be enabled. Texture particles seem to be the exception to that rule, as their transparency mask is often painted on the RGB channel rather than on the alpha channel :hmm2: