Hi,

I was wondering what’s the best way to simulate thermal signatures for targets 
and the terrain (i.e heat vision). 

One simple and easy way is to load 2 models - one for day view and another for 
thermal view. However, this poses a big problem for the terrain. I really don't 
want to load the geometry of 2 terrains since that would require too much 
memory. BTW, I use the term "model" to refer to an OpenFlight (FLT) file that I 
load.

Since the geometry of both day and thermal models are identical (at least in my 
case), I should be able to load the day model and then load the textures of the 
thermal model (without loading the geometry of the thermal model). This can 
easily be done by using a filename convention such as adding the suffix "_tml" 
at the end of every thermal texture filename. 

This is all well in theory, but how do I implement it (I am still a rookie). 
Can anyone help me on this?

BTW: I know that there are several techniques to produce good looking thermal 
signatures using shaders, but that's too fancy for me right now. I just need 
something simple that won't consume all my memory.

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