MSFS Blender2MSFS Limitation? Color Multipliers

[ronh]

I must be blind!! Where and how am I to download the updated zip file, please?

You should be able to click on green download button and download the zip, use the zip to install.

EDIT: depending on how you installed the previous one you may need to unzip and rezip it into separate zip file as the folder structure may not be suitable for people's install.
eg. my current one is MSFSToolkit, this will install under Blender2MSFS2-main

 

[rhumbaflappy]

I must be blind!! Where and how am I to download the updated zip file, please?

https://github.com/tml1024/Blender2MSFS2

 

[ashmanmedia]

I must be blind!! Where and how am I to download the updated zip file, please?

Yeah I am attaching the zip for install in Blender Preferences INSTALL.
But for any updates please see this link:

GitHub - tml1024/Blender2MSFS2: Obsolete Open Source adoption of Blender2MSFS which apparently had been left in limbo by its author

Obsolete Open Source adoption of Blender2MSFS which apparently had been left in limbo by its author - tml1024/Blender2MSFS2

github.com

Select CODE > Download ZIP

 

[Pyscen]

Thanks to All,...

I Re-Zipped the (main) as the Original. No Problem.

Thanks, Again!

 

[DaveWG]

Up to my ears with something else thanks to the 7 inches of rain we had over the weekend. I'm 2.93 also.
Thanks for the test files.
More later.

How do you get this to install in Blender 2.93? On my 2.93 installation it throws up several errors when trying to enable the addon, although it works perfectly with 2.91.

 

[Mikea.at]

How do you get this to install in Blender 2.93? On my 2.93 installation it throws up several errors when trying to enable the addon, although it works perfectly with 2.91.

Delete every old version, restart blender, install the new version. That should work.

 

[Pyscen]

You don't need to delete the old at all (especially for version 2.93), Re-zipping with the original folder name installs correctly

 

[Mikea.at]

If you download directly from github as a .zip file you dont have to rezipp at all. Just use the downloaded zip. Go to blender addons install from file.

 

[DaveWG]

Thanks for the pointers, but I think I've tried all of those tips already. The 2.93 install of blender was fresh, with no other 3rd party add-ons installed. Only thing i haven't tried is removing blender 2.91, which I'm a bit nervous about as that's working fine and I don't want to screw that up! I'll post a screenshot of the error message later to see if that gives anyone a clue. Thanks.

 

[PhysicsTeacher]

Thanks for the pointers, but I think I've tried all of those tips already. The 2.93 install of blender was fresh, with no other 3rd party add-ons installed. Only thing i haven't tried is removing blender 2.91, which I'm a bit nervous about as that's working fine and I don't want to screw that up! I'll post a screenshot of the error message later to see if that gives anyone a clue. Thanks.

I had that problem with old versions, too. There's some lore on the Blender site about how to keep older versions still runnable, as I do. I won't try to relay their explanation, but I don't "install" Blender; rather I put all the files in a documents folder properly labeled and then find the .exe and run that. But, really, there's help on the Blender site - I just can't remember where. If you have a Windows-install, there's something in your user app data. Hope these vague anecdotes help.

 

[DaveWG]

Thanks. I did end up removing all traces of blender entirely, then reinstalling just 2.93. That worked, but I'll look into that info you mentioned for future reference.

 

[mamu]

Thanks @Mikea.at and all other contributors for all your work on this, really appreciated

I Hope you can add another feature to the Exporter:
The msfs glass material does not render properly in Blender (full transparent)
I lived with that too much, eventually looking in the shader editor and find a really Easy fix

Going backwards, the msfs bsdf shader has its alpha connected to a multiply node (the value of our selected transparency)
Going up in the chain, the multiply Is connected with the color of an EMPYT texture node
This makes literally no sense to me !zero from a texture multiply by any value Always gives zero!
Killing that last binding did the work
Of course exported models looks good to me in the Sim!

Thanks again for all your effort!

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[PhysicsTeacher]

I Hope you can add another feature to the Exporter:
The msfs glass material does not render properly in Blender (full transparent)
I lived with that too much, eventually looking in the shader editor and find a really Easy fix

Going backwards, the msfs bsdf shader has its alpha connected to a multiply node (the value of our selected transparency)
Going up in the chain, the multiply Is connected with the color of an EMPYT texture node
This makes literally no sense to me !zero from a texture multiply by any value Always gives zero!
Killing that last binding did the work
Of course exported models looks good to me in the Sim!

Just a quick note, I'm still working on the problem you raise:
I believe I've duplicated what you are seeing. In the left picture (I hope it's really on the left when I attach it!), you see a simple building with a desk inside and double-sided brick walls for comparison. You can see the desk through the top of the window on the right, and you can also see the desk through the bottom of the window on the right. The top is simply some text with an alpha channel as an albedo texture on the Asobo glass material. The bottom is some dirt texture with an alpha channel as an albedo texture. In this way, I used the albedo channel to add dirt to the window. That way, the alpha output is not zero, as you noticed when there is no texture. You can see the alpha settings at the right. I was able to make the window dirty but transparent to a degree. The alpha slider allows me to vary the effect.

On the right, you see the same model in the sim. Clearly there is more here than just the problem with the glass material nodes with no texture in the albedo alpha channel .
I will not go into detail until I know more. I learned a lot about the exporter when I worked on the LOD batch export, and I believe the problem lies with the source node output that is actually exported by the glTF exporter that ships with Blender. Glass is one of the Asobo extensions, but the inputs to the Kronos glTF exporter are difficult to find.
Thank you for bringing this analysis up. I agree that deleting the alpha_multiply input fixes the immediate problem, but I would like to fix the entire problem so I can make dirty glass.
I hope I've used the reply function properly.
I have to go now: KLGA tower is yelling at me to "get that box off the runway!"