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Title: LotEditor - overlay textures in wrong order
Post by: Ralfger on January 19, 2019, 07:32:01 AM
I´ve a short question: How can I determine the order in LE in that overly textures show up in the game? I`ve already changed the order of adding the textures and flicked through alle the questions and tutorials without success. The picute below shows the problem.

(https://www.imgbox.de/users/Ralfger/Overlay.jpg)
Title: Re: LotEditor - overlay textures in wrong order
Post by: Andreas on January 19, 2019, 08:27:18 AM
You can't, unfortunately. Neither the game nor the LE supports proper stacking of overlay textures, so they show up randomly. If you want to have a certain look, you need to make your own texture, or try to limit the stacking to such cases where two different overlays don't interfere with each other.
Title: Re: LotEditor - overlay textures in wrong order
Post by: Ralfger on January 19, 2019, 09:04:59 AM
What a pity! But thank´s for your prompt answer...If they show up randomly - does that mean I can try to plop the lot until everything is in line?
Otherwise that means I have to dig deep into the matter. Is there a tutorial how to merge different existing overlay textures into a single one? And while we're at it - how to transform a traffic network texture (sam cobblestone) into an overlay texture??
Title: Re: LotEditor - overlay textures in wrong order
Post by: Andreas on January 19, 2019, 09:33:27 AM
No, they show up at random while loading the game, too, and maybe even after zooming/rotating. As for making/editing textures, I'm sure there are quite a few tutorials around, and tools like GoFSH and some others help with the conversion/creation of FSH files. You can also export them as PNGs and simply merge them with any image editing program that supports layers.
Title: Re: LotEditor - overlay textures in wrong order
Post by: pressus on January 19, 2019, 03:09:44 PM
In fact, it's unnecessary, what a bad luck, sometimes this effect can be useful, but only sometimes ...  ;)