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I have created a few Overlay textures for a project I'm working on but when using two overlays together in PIM-X I get the zoom issue, as others have, where the overlays trade places in no orderly fashion (the top overlay ends up on the bottom etc). Is there a work-a-round for this? I wasn't sure if I could change an ID so the bottom Overlay is seen as a Base texture or if I have to just spend the extra time in Gimp and combine the 2 textures as one.

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Hi, 
I encountered this problem (scoty_fieldpaths_hedges plugin): two overlays, one on top of the other (one was more "covering" than the other), caused the texture underneath to be pushed to the foreground. After some testing, I simply duplicated the smaller one I wanted on top! I don't fully understand why, but it seems that on all my Lots (without Basetex') with two overlays, they don't display in the order they were "deposited" -> but with three, they do!
FYI... A texture becomes an overlay if even a single pixel takes on a transparency value, however small!

Funny, I encountered this problem exactly a year ago!

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    Thank you @hugues aroux I just tried but unfortunately it didn't work for me.

    Which brings me to hopefully a quicker fix than using Gimp to merge the two overlays in the correct alignment. Does GoFSH allow the importing of 2 overlay textures and overlapping them, just as you would in making a lot, then exporting it as a new texture?

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    Really!? Damn it... by Toutatis! 
    Could you send me the textures (the DAT file) via PM if you prefer, and tell me which ones you tried to layer together? I'd like to compare them with my layering problems. Just for a quick test. Thanks ...
     No, GoFSH cannot import 2 FSH or BMP files for associates, perhaps by using scripts!? But that would be very complicated for just 1 FSH!!


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