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botman
05-18-2003, 09:32 AM
ok i got this problem in max 5 when i put a skylight in the scene it gives away the opacity map of my decal, when the skylight is off it looks good and u cant tell. the image i am using is a jpeg in the diffuse slot, and an alpha of that in the opacity slot.
botman
05-18-2003, 09:33 AM
and this is the fixed one without lighting
Marcel
05-18-2003, 04:18 PM
The skylight probably doesn't handle opacitymaps correctly, it seems it only sees the geometry when it is creating the shadows. A solution would be to turn off 'cast shadows' on the decal object (object properties->cast shadows).

Another solution would be to make a new texture with the decal on a yellow background so you wouldn't need to use the alpha at all.
botman
05-18-2003, 06:08 PM
well that dident solve the problem, if i turned the alpha yellow, all u see is yellow instead of black.
botman
05-18-2003, 06:26 PM
oh i had to go to, object properties--adv. lighting--cast shadows. when i did it there it solved the problem, thanx marcel.:thumbsup:
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