Self-shadowing on FSX aircraft: the secret is revealed!

[robby88]

Originally Posted by Elias

Actually it seems that there is no secret at all with aircraft self shadowing.

I am eagerly waiting for the SDK to clear things up about materials, and all these settings and options the "FSX material" has.

Today as I was experimenting importing my aircraft to FSX I realized that by just replacing the default materials in the scene with "FSX materials", self shadowing on the model works:

Very nice model Elias

[robby88]

Edit: Original post deleted - default self shadowing works ok in biplanes which use FS 10 materials - couldn't see for looking.