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drmiller21

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Hello,

I have an Interesting problem, I have a hanger with animated doors the hanger has a tower attached to it I made the tower glass transparent by adding a material named Glass_Tower and then Later just trans after applying the martial to the part in FSDS 3.0 you see the transparency in fsds also in the Sim the problem is after it is rendered to a mdl and placed using .x with makemdl I go to look at my hanger tower combo and the tower glass is hovering over the animated doors when triggered it moves with the animated doors as well, joining the model parts to the tower glass has no effect does any one have an idea what is going on with this? and or have any advice on how to fix it? I have spent many hours trying to fined a post here or else where describing this and or a fix and found nothing any help will be greatly apperciated:

Donald Miller
 
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jpfil

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Hi,

I never attach animated object that I made. I think that you have to detach your door from parent part so it will be "free".
 
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drmiller21

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hey, Jean


The part in question is not attached to the doors or animations. when I apply the material to the part, I want transparent when rendered it is then floating around the center of my animations. This only happens after applying the material (trans or glass_) to the part I want transparent. this is confusing to me as there should be no reason for this to happen this is also happening on a nother hanger I have animated with transparent windows:confused:



Donald miller
 
jpfil

jpfil

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Do you apply material in animation or normal mode? Are you sure that your transparent texture is in the proper folder?
 
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drmiller21

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textures

The texture goes in the texture folder for my scenery, I am building although since this is for FS9, I have been told I do not need a texture when I am applying a material to a part although when doing it that way the problem still exists whether I am using just a material with a alpha or a texture with an alpha
 
jpfil

jpfil

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Do test the animation :
- without texture?
- with a non-alpha texture?
- with a non-trans material?


EDIT

I think I had a problem with animation when :
- I have selected several polygons in Polygon Mode (F7) to apply different material.
- I quit Polygon Mode but I forgot to unselect the selected polygons.
- I tried a lot of solutions until I returned to Polygon Mode (I never saw the selected polygons in other modes).
 
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drmiller21

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test the animation

I have tried the suggestions although the problem is not the animation in the model. The problem is when, I add a martial to to add transparency in an unrelated part that has nothing to do with the animation for some reason that puts the unrelated part hovering over the animated part in the Sim, I have researched tried tons of different concepts ext... nothing works, I can not fined a fix for this and have decided to move on with my project. Maybe I will re-tackle it later. I just want to say thank you very much for the help I really appreciate it.


Donald
 
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tgibson

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Make the glass a completely separate object and place it at the exact same coordinates as the tower.
 
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