How to make colors in the shadow?

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kripkee
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How to make colors in the shadow?

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Hi,

I have a small problem, I want save the ProjShad.dds with colors - no Problem. But when I want take my skin, the colors of the shadows are grey, in which format I have to save the dds ?

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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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You should save it as DXT1c / no alpha

http://www.mania-creative.com/howto/tm_ ... ndex-eng-1
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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Pedal wrote:You should save it as DXT1c / no alpha

http://www.mania-creative.com/howto/tm_ ... ndex-eng-1
Well, it seems to work in TMUF/NF but not in maniaplanet?
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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You have to have the shaders set to "Fast" to see the fake shadows properly.
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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zarexz wrote:You have to have the shaders set to "Fast" to see the fake shadows properly.
hmmm... I save this file with paint.net and/or photoshop CS.6 and I got always the same effect :?
Which plugins do you use to convert shadows, which should work in Maniaplanet?

I have these settings in Photoshop
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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set shaders to Fast in Maniaplanet settings...
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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If I remember correctly, it was told that the fake shadows cannot be in colors, and get transformed to gray automatically by the actual 3D engine.
This means neon lights below the car are not feasible, if you tried to do exactly this :|
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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kripkee wrote:
zarexz wrote:You have to have the shaders set to "Fast" to see the fake shadows properly.
Sorry. Shader settings in the trackmania launcher need to be set to "Fast" indeed.
Save your file as DXT1-No alpha.

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EDIT: You also have to be on track. It doesn't show in colour in the painter menu.
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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cool :thumbsup:
but this means the shadows are still gray with nice shader settings, right?
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Re: How to make colors in the shadow?

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TMarc wrote:cool :thumbsup:
but this means the shadows are still gray with nice shader settings, right?
I can't reproduce a grayscale fakeshadow at all.
It's either there in colour or not at all.
Shaders: Very fast & Fast = coloured fakeshadow.dds
Shaders: Nice & Very nice = dds file is ignored.
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