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24 Jan 2016 19:29 - 02 Mar 2016 00:06 #1
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, if not, please move it.
I recently designed two textures (one including color variants, so more than two files, but the color variants are supposed to share the same spec/normal maps), and made specular and normal maps. One had the .normal.png and .spec.png files named the same as the diffuse map, and the other diffuse maps had different names than the spec/normal maps, so I was told by Threefolder to add this line to the .mis file:
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registerMaterialTextures("platinum/data/interiors/WeatherWonders/GlassPlating-Blue", "platinum/data/interiors/WeatherWonders/GlassPlating-Normal.normal.png", "platinum/data/interiors/WeatherWonders/GlassPlating-Specular.spec.png");
...Where GlassPlating-Blue is the diffuse map. None of the textures had spec/normals in-game, including the one I didn't need a function for. The Ultra levels were working fine.

I even tried to move the spec/normal maps to platinum/data/shaders/WeatherWonders/ but nothing I tried worked.
Each time the level loaded, it showed this in the console: Register new texture: platinum/data/interiors/WeatherWonders/GlassPlating-Blue

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24 Jan 2016 22:01 #2
Poked around with this for a bit and found the issue. Apparently the graphics extender has issues with capitalized texture names. However, there is an easy solution. Simply use this code instead:
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registerMaterialTextures("platinum/data/interiors/weatherwonders/glassplating-blue", "platinum/data/interiors/weatherwonders/glassplating-normal.normal.png", "platinum/data/interiors/weatherwonders/glassplating-specular.spec.png");

Note the lack of capitals. The files themselves don't need to be renamed, this should work (tested and shows for me). I'll get on a fix for this weird necessity, but this should work until then.
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24 Jan 2016 23:05 #3
Thanks! It worked, but I also need to run that function for Glue.png. Another bug is that you cannot use tildes or periods (like ~/data/... or ./WeatherWonders/...) in the paths either.

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25 Jan 2016 00:48 #4
Yep. I noticed that as well, and I will push a fix in the near future that fixes both of these issues.

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