[GTASA] Windscreen problem

[R3W1ND]

Hello. I have a problem with windscreen transparency.
This is the viewport in ZModeler 2.1.1



As you can see..there are no problems here. The car's windscreen looks fine. As in GGMM



But..ingame :





I dont know why..the windscreen material and the rest of windows are same. But this only happens to windscreen part.

[Oleg]

set 2 uv channels on windscreen object; properties->mesh->vertices->format->uv channels = 2; apply.

[R3W1ND]

Problem solved ! Thanks !
Second question :

The license plates is correctly assigned to carplate.bmp and carpback.bmp in material editor. But why it wont work ingame ? Its only plain white ingame.

[Oleg]

load original material. may be something specific should be set too. alternatively, load original vehicle and use original pre-configured material on your model. or even more, use original polygons with original material on your model.

[R3W1ND]

You mean detach original SA model and leave only license plate part then attach to my car ? Ok I'll try it.

[R3W1ND]

Solved !
Question three.. How to export only collision file from dff ?

[Oleg]

export entire model into some folder and delete the rest, just keep .col file.

[R3W1ND]

Tried once but fail. cannot export it with .col extension format

[Automan]

Collision can be saved alone:
https://s30.postimg.org/459h0vdm9/collisiononly.jpg
even if an error is detected.
However, a .dff with only a Collision is useless!

[R3W1ND]

Okay thanks Oleg and Automan ! The .col problem is solved without any .col editor


Next question :

I want to make a badge like this. Nearly all GTA IV/V vehicles use this


But I can't find correct alpha settings for that. This is mine.


I'm using BMP textures. What's the problem ?

[Oleg]

BMP textures in most of cases have no alpha channel and can't be used for transparent badges. try PNG or DDS textures.

[R3W1ND]

Thanks again, Oleg. It works with PNG.

But seems like alpha-based textures like scratch is blinking whenever I turn-on ENB. When ENB is off, textures are normal.

[Automan]

ENB series by Boris Vorontsov?...
In this case, the material has [spec] and/or [env], and if so, with what values?

[R3W1ND]

The "blinking" textures only happens with scratch and vehicleshatter. This does not happen with IV/V badges. I'm only using [spec]

[R3W1ND]

Oleg, I need your explain about this :




The "scratch" and "shatter" texture on doors looks like pixelated which is bad. The other parts were fine. Why this is happen ?

[Automan]

It's a original car?...

[R3W1ND]

@Automan it's a modified Bravura

[Automan]

Well, you must to move a little the scratch and shatter surfaces from the paint and glass surface.
Otherwise because a shaining effect, and Jack Nicholson asks you the copyrights!

[R3W1ND]

Hello..how to fix this ? The camera is located too close to the car. How to move it in Zmodeler ?

[Oleg]

you can't move it in ZModeler. You can create a dummy part and move it to the back of the car, a bit away of the trunk. the overal "dimensions" of the car will get bigger and camera will not come that close to the vehicle.

just a guess, not sure whether this will work or not.

[Automan]

There are three viewing positions in the GTA-SA. I think this is enough ...
However, as Oleg said, the camera location depends encumbrance of the model, including chassis_vlo.
Create a cube with invisible texture to attach to the chassis (alpha texture all black):

[R3W1ND]

Seems like I've discovered my own rule before I saw your reply, Automan. Just move the dff file (eg: euros.dff) to the front if you want the camera goes farther.

[Automan]

Seems like I've discovered my own rule before I saw your reply, Automan. Just move the dff file (eg: euros.dff) to the front if you want the camera goes farther.

No, not a good idea because it shifts the center of gravity (the collision spheres as well as the strength of the vehicle are also responsible for its mass), and you can not always make up for it in handling.cfg file.