I have a bunch of buttons on the ControlPad that are lighting up since linking them into their template. It should only be the Decal Material that illuminates.
How do you fix this? Why is it illuminating the entire button? Presently both the Decal and Buttons materials have ‘Black’ for Emissive in the Materials in Blender.
Buttons on MFD and PFD’s are fine.
Many thanks for any input.
Template Code;
<Component ID="AS1000_CONTROLPAD">
<DefaultTemplateParameters>
<LONG_CLICK_TIME>1</LONG_CLICK_TIME>
</DefaultTemplateParameters>
<UseTemplate Name="ASOBO_AS1000_ControlPad_Template">
<SIMVAR_POWER_SETTING>LIGHT PANEL POWER SETTING:1</SIMVAR_POWER_SETTING>
<CIRCUIT_ID>33</CIRCUIT_ID>
<POTENTIOMETER>15</POTENTIOMETER>
<ID>1</ID>
Bill
LHC
I think my question should be: How do you link a Material (Decals) to ‘something’ that turns on ‘Emissive’ when a circuit is active? Not parts, but Materials, how to make a Material become emissive with a particular Circuit.
The material needs to be emissive, and you will want to add model behaviours to control the emissive for each button. There are helpers in the FS2024 templates to add an emissive to a button, or you can directly use an emissive template like Emissive_Templates.xml
If the decal is part of the same node as the button itself, you will want to make sure the button material is not emissive.
Thanks TracerNZ,
I got them working earlier today. Spelling of the materials need to be perfect or they will not work and the button turns white. Even with black as emissive and a black emissive texture.
Also, on something like AS1000_ControlPad_Emis.png… I had the right name, right spelling, but it needed to be emis… not Emis… and that broke all the buttons on the pad, and the MID panel.
Several weeks trying to get this working… sigh….
Glad they are now all functioning.
Bill
Buttons are all black now.
Also, if you get buttons (Decals) with rainbows in them, go into the Mesh setting and find any color attributes and delete them and the color is back to white, or what ever color you had.
