I've been trying to use Tomatoshade (Reflection mod and shaders), which looks absolutely amazing.  Only thing that prevents me from actually keeping it on is one; I know CS won't support it as it's a mod to dynamic reflections and two, I can't use it with any cockpit lights (or any lights turned on for that matter). Which is what I wanted to make this purpose of this post for. Just as awareness and for the fact that I actually have a question about the lights from CS. Whenever you turn on any cockpit lighting; does the model change by any chance as well? As some of the exterior model changes. Very minor so one won't exactly tell and for the fact that when you turn on cockpit lighting, you lose all reflection to the exterior of the aircraft.

Alcides Segovia wrote on Aug 9^th, 2018 at 12:16am:

The 757 has the diffuse on around the clock, so there's no texture swap. Just lightmaps applied over the diffuse as per the sim standard logic/timing.

Alpha is probably gone at night, but again as per the sim standard logic/timing.

As far as I know Truelight/FSlabs are FX based lights and have nothing to do with textures.

Darien wrote on Aug 11^th, 2018 at 5:51am:


The problem is, changing any materials setting now will unpredictably affect existing diff/spec/bump maps. We are talking 10 released models with hundreds of liveries. So the answer is unfortunately no.

But if you'll provide us with info what exact settings you need to support the mod, we'd try to implement them into the next product.
I mean stuff like:
blend environment by inverse of diffuse alpha
blend environment by specular map alpha
blend diffuse by diffuse alpha
blend diffuse by inverse of specular map alpha