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Hi George,

I can reproduce the problem here now, not sure yet what causes it though :).

I also noticed that I had to press the "Set default transparent" button multiple times for the same texture. It seems it does not work correctly when multiple parts have the same material. Going to look into that as well.
 
Got it! It's the noseart.bmp texture. That one also needs to be set to transparent. It seems to add some lines on the nose.
 
Perfect :D



Might it not be better for MCX to apply default transparency to all textures automatically?
 
Hang on a minute :redflag:

Why is it that the B-25 converted correctly without needing to set default transparency for any textures?

 
Hi George,

Are all of the glass textures showing up in the photo of the B-25?

It looks as though with the exception of the glass above the bombardier's position in the nose, most of the glass is missing in that screenshot.

Cheers
Gary
 
It looks as though with the exception of the glass above the bombardier's position in the nose, most of the glass is missing in that screenshot.
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As far as I can tell, all of the glass is contained in the texture files, so if they weren't being interpreted as transparent, they would appear as black.

Here's another one. In order to make the glass transparent (it was previously black) I needed to set default transparency on another texture. Now, the wings are semi-transparent :eek:

 
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Golf-HotelDelta said:
Might it not be better for MCX to apply default transparency to all textures automatically?
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Yesterday after I shutdown my PC I was thinking the same. For SCASM objects that happens already, I'll check why it does not happen for these MDL files.
 
Golf-HotelDelta said:
Here's another one. In order to make the glass transparent (it was previously black) I needed to set default transparency on another texture. Now, the wings are semi-transparent :eek:
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Are the glass and wings in the same texture? Could be that the wings have an alpha channel as well, but that it is used for reflection. So in that case you would not have to enable transparency.
 
Hi,

In the next development release the alpha textures should be detected automatically. I have also fixed the bug that forced you to click "Set Default Transparent" more than once on some materials.
 
arno said:
Are the glass and wings in the same texture?
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I guess so. The main texture sheet has all of the outside surfaces including the cockpit glass. It has a light grey alpha except for the "anti-glare" patch on top of the cowling. The "glasss" texture is a small bmp with a dark grey alpha.

Ok. I think the problem was that I hadn't set default transparency on the glass but had set it on the main texture sheet.

Having reversed these, it is now displaying correctly in both MCX and in FSX :)

So, it won't work if all textures have default transparency applied automatically. It is up to the user to set transparency according to the particular model.

EDIT.

BTW Gary, you were correct, the glass in the B-25 doesn't have a texture. I think this was a fix for use in FSX.
 
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Hi,

Golf-HotelDelta said:
So, it won't work if all textures have default transparency applied automatically. It is up to the user to set transparency according to the particular model.
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True, but I think it will be easiest to enable it when there is an alpha channel and manually disable when it should not be transparent, like your wings. I think in general that is less work. But the user always has to check indeed.
 
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