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Canopy Glass

pks1414

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I am just finishing off some static gliders to put on an airfield. I have all the textures for the fuselage etc...how do I do canopy glass, I have tried to get my head around it but it just won't sink in. When I did them before 'back in the day' I just set the transparency in Max. This time I would like to utilise some of the new features for FSX, not too much as they are only statics, just enough to give that nice look.

Thanks

Paul

ps in idiot guide mode would be good (I use Photoshop CS3)
 
Look in the SDK under "New Aircraft Procedures" and use the listed "recipie" for Glass.

ACES provides a step-by-step listing, so there's little point to repeating it here in a post...
 
Hi Bill

I have got it working...in a fashion, however I am not convinced I have done it right. I have set up a separate material/diffuse colour and folowing the SDK, changed the various settings.

However all I did was change the colour in the diffuse panel, I haven't created a texture sheet for the glass and despit looking through I cannoty see anything which explains this. The same applies to the fresnal ramp, the sdk mentions the .bmp??

Nearly there not quite, where am I going wrong...if I am

Thanks


Well I have a sort of improvement, but I still don't think it is sinking in. My canopy is transparent, and has a slight reflection, however it is very dull, well its seems dull. I am assuming its is something to do with the textures I ave used?? are there separate textures for glass?? if there are...how and what, I tried a simple grey but that didn't work, well it did, like above.

Any advice would be really appreciated

Paul
 
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Nope, haven't got it right, when I do a render in 3dsMax it looks great, by the time its in FSX its just dull, you can see that there is glass but it doesn't have the shine effect or the reflection :confused:
 
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