A little help please

[Riley64]

I'm trying too create some red East German number decals for the MiG-21MF, but the nose of the aircraft appears white but the decals are visible. Can someone help me out?

[Wrench]

you're tga is either

 

a) too large or

b) (and more likely) has a defect in the alpha channel or

c) (less likely) more than 3 decals on the mesh

 

a screenshot would be of TREMENDOUS help in nailing down the diagnosis

 

Make sure that

 

1) your "background" image is square -- ALL decals in 3W sims MUST be square (128/128, 512/512, etc)

2) make sure you have AT MINIMUM a 5 pixel 'clear zone' around the central image

3) make sure you're saving the image as a 32bit tga (24bit + 8bit Alpha)

 

there's several tutorials around here on decal creation ... inculuding TKs original from 2003 ... i don't rememember where exacatly they are, so you'll have to search for them

 

btw, in the all the ObjectCats, you'll find 3 digit "GermanNum***.tga" (albeit it black and only numbering 100-199 -and most likely WEST German...), but those should give you a basic idea for the size/etc for DDR Borts

 

wrench

kevin stein