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  1. dazz

    FSX Why does the Ground Poly Wizard change my material settings?

    Thanks, guys
  2. dazz

    FSX Why does the Ground Poly Wizard change my material settings?

    Sorry Arno, not sure I understand what you're saying there. Do you mean if I pick P3D for the output of the GPW, I can get both specular reflection and Z-bias layering working fine in FSX? I guess I can try that and check myself, but I can't find the SDK for v2 in the P3D website, only v3, v4...
  3. dazz

    FSX Why does the Ground Poly Wizard change my material settings?

    OK, I found this post by Gary where he explains that the GPW uses a different method to generate the bgl file that supports Z-Bias layering, but does not support specular reflections. Turns out that's exactly what's missing from my materials. He also comments on the fact that the other method of...
  4. dazz

    FSX Why does the Ground Poly Wizard change my material settings?

    Thank you, Arno. It's an FSX mdl, exported to FSX with the GPW. The thing is if I manually place the model using the Object Placement tool, the ground poly looks great from up close, but I get a lot of flickering at a distance. Conversely, if I use the wizard to place the poly, the z-fighting is...
  5. dazz

    FSX Why does the Ground Poly Wizard change my material settings?

    Does anybody know why after generating a bgl with the GP wizard, the material parameters are different, please? The checkboxes I tick in the dialog don't seem to change anything. Thanks
  6. dazz

    FSX VDGS Tweaker not working

    Nevermind. All I needed to do was to use FS2004's BGLComp instead of FSX's to generate the placement files. It's working now
  7. dazz

    FSX VDGS Tweaker not working

    Hi everyone. I'm trying to add some safegates to my FSX airports but I can't for the life of me get VDGS Tweaker to work. I created the mdl with a heading of 34, then used MCX to place the model with the same heading, but the model appears freezed in the "WAIT" state in FSX, with some weird...
  8. dazz

    FSX Textures not completely transparent during the day

    Thanks, Thorsten. I'll try that
  9. dazz

    FSX Textures not completely transparent during the day

    In the unlikely case that anybody cares at all (I'm guessing everyone is focused on MSFS by now), assignining the same black texture with black alpha to the specular mode in blender's FS Toolset did the trick.
  10. dazz

    FSX Textures not completely transparent during the day

    I managed to fix the issue by setting the specular color to pure black ( 0; 0; 0 ) in MCX, but it would be nice if I could skip that step and have Blender export the mdl file with that specular color already set to black. I can't seem to find the option in the FSX toolset though. Does anybody...
  11. dazz

    FSX Textures not completely transparent during the day

    Hi everyone. I'm designing a model for my taxiway lights, and it looks decent at night, but during the day the textures are not 100% transparent. See attached pictures. I also included a zip file with the dds textures I'm using for the light splashes. The day texture is simply a black square...
  12. dazz

    FSX What's this ground texture overlay that covers the entire world?

    Found it, the file in question is detail1.bmp Thank you again.
  13. dazz

    FSX What's this ground texture overlay that covers the entire world?

    Thanks, Richer. I'll look for it there.
  14. dazz

    FSX What's this ground texture overlay that covers the entire world?

    My FSX install is like 10 years old, so I have no idea what I might have done in the past that put this texture that looks like gravel in my sim. It's literally everywhere, doesn't matter if the terrain is grass, sand, tarmac, concrete, etc. Any ideas, please? I tried deactivating every scenery...
  15. dazz

    FSX Weird artifacts in the VC after modding the mdl file

    Nevermind, I found the offending element in the tree! It's the one containing the models for the yokes, windows, tiller and rudder pedals, and I can live without those, but I'll try to narrow it down a bit more. Man, for a minute I thought I'd wasted my time here. Phew!
  16. dazz

    FSX Weird artifacts in the VC after modding the mdl file

    I don't. The artifacts follow the viewpoint. At some point they go away when I move the viewpoint far ahead the cockpit in FSX, but only while looking in the opposite direction of the VC. It's like something breaks the rendering of the VC. If I fire up FSX and change windows to something else...
  17. dazz

    FSX Weird artifacts in the VC after modding the mdl file

    I just posted a thread a few days ago about adding landing/taxi lights to the FSX maddog. That went pretty well, but I have a bigger problem now. When I export the VC mdl with MCX, I get intermitent artifacts in the cockpit, as shown in the picture. Any ideas on how to solve or prevent this...
  18. dazz

    FSX Attaching n4gix's awesome lights to an aircraft model as taxi/landing lights

    Success! I finally got it working. Thanks again for your help, Tom!
  19. dazz

    FSX Attaching n4gix's awesome lights to an aircraft model as taxi/landing lights

    Oh my god, I'm dumb. It's right there in the SDK documentation. Embarrassing 😩
  20. dazz

    FSX Attaching n4gix's awesome lights to an aircraft model as taxi/landing lights

    Thanks, Tom. Is there a reference somewhere for the code definitions of the different variables available in the <code> section, please? By control I mean one of those you can set in FSUIPC with the ipc library like for example: ipc.control(69642, 16777216)
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