Posts by Kira

Quote from Bzmot332

The model itself is fine, in different modeling editors.

This is where the 3D programs "lie to you".

As you've already noticed, the problem is that the normals of several polygons point in the wrong direction. This doesn't matter so much in Blender (or many other 3D programs), because usually the back of a polygon is also displayed with a material / texture.

But most game engines don't have this strange behaviour. Therefore I recommend to enable "Backface Culling" to see the mesh as it appears in Lotus.

To solve the problem in Blender, you can try 2 things.

In edit mode you can run "Recalculate Outside" (CTRL + N) while all polygons of the object are selected (A) and hope that Blender will fix everything (unfortunately this function often fails with very complex objects).

Or you have to select all affected polygons (Backface Culling helps here too) and rotate them manually with the "Flip Normals" command in the same menu.

Just deselect the option "High resolution center tile"

just clear this line, so that it is empty

For later, all possible parameters for Lotus can be found in the lexicon. https://www.lotus-simulator.de…y/23-starting-parameters/

The old file is automatically overwritten by the game. You don't have to delete anything

Ok, now that's clear. Did you remove -VRon from the startup parameters? If you still have problems, a new logfile would be helpful

Unfortunately, I forgot to mention that private messages are only available if your account is at least 5 days old (I think it was 5 days, but I'm not totally sure).

Maybe Janine can make an exception for you, if you like.

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With this button you can open a small menu and start a private conversation

You can try to use another starting parameter, such as -windowedfullscreen and see if there are any changes.

You can also tell us your hardware configuration (especially graphics card) and send a log file too. This could help us understand this case better.

The only thing that came to my mind now is to do the following:

Open your working directory from the map editor and navigate to the folder of your map and then to the "Export" folder.

There you can sort the files according to their file size.

For my testmap it looks like this

The name of the largest .mtl file is now important because the first two numbers show you which tile it is.

The first number is the position of the tile at the latitude, the second value is the position at the longitude.

These values can be read in the map editor in the lower status bar.

I'd come up with two things you might want to check out.

First one is the type of material, but you will surely have it right.

Second is the "Intensity of normal texture" maybe the value is still "0"?

I hope this will help you, if not please post a screenshot of your material properties.

Edit: Even another idea. There is also a setting on the Graphics tab. This option may not be enabled.

Can you upload the log files while this error occurs?

Anyway, have you already tried to repair the game data? Maybe something went wrong during the update.

Please check if the content is still subscribed in Steam Workshop and start the simulator once before starting the map editor.

Edit: Again a little too slow, I have to stop doing more than two things the same time

Not at the moment, but maybe there will be one in the future.

https://support.steampowered.c…le.php?ref=1040-JWMT-2947

Quote from TNH

Also there is one more thing: A Lexicon article mentoined that it is recommended to use smaller textures for the LOD modell. But then there will be 2 different textures stored in the VRAM, won't be? (Original and the smaller LOD texture)

Therefore I would recommend to use mipmap in dds textures

This error occurs even if the filename of a preview image (or something similar) contain a character that is not supported by steam.

Would you like to describe your problem in more detail?

If you're looking for gameplay help, there are a few translated lexicon articles, but unfortunately there are also some pending ones.

As an example, there is an article that shows you the hotkeys.

Overall though, it would be a little more helpful to get some more information about the difficulties you have with the game.

Or at least add the normal logfile and maybe a few screenshots.

I have a rough idea, but your description is difficult to understand, at least for me.

You may also want to include the original Czech text in a spoiler, which may also be helpful.

Quote from karadamir

What else you need to send to understand the problem?

Logfiles and maybe system data like CPU, RAM, GPU and operating system