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3DS MAX FlightSimX Textures

Nodd

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Using 3DS MAX I've been attempting to create a glass texture for my aircraft's windshield. The Opacity setting in the Blinn Basic Parameters section seems to have no effect when viewed in FSX. Is there some trick to making a part transparent?

I also noticed there's a special FlightSimX texture in MAX. It looks pretty powerful & equally confusing. Has anyone had any success using it & perhaps mind sharing some basic how-to information?
 
Hello Nodd,

If you'll scroll down FlightSimX material in Material Editor you'll find there Framebuffer Blend frame and two buttons in it "Set Default Opaque" and "Set Default Transparent" press second and opacity will work...

But who will tell me how to make a hole in material with alpha-chanel in FSX ? It works fine if I do only plane but if the plane in front of other detail with alpha... interesting things having place...:banghead:
 
Thanks Andrey. Its much easier to fly with transparent glass in my windshield :p
 
You are welcome :) I do belive we need to do something like Wiki about FlightSimX material... but let's wait for SDK, I saw it was promised next week... will check it out.
 
Hey Andrey - Have you tried messing around with the Z Test Alpha setting? It's just a hunch, but I'm guessing it might allow you to set a Z-bias value for the texture - which would be a cure for the dreaded drawing order problems that were so common in FS9.
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