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FSX Flickering Polygons

tgibson

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Hi,

I have a set of semi-transparent polygons in FS9 that have oil spots on them that I can place on the tarmac at an aircraft parking place using Instant Scenery. I use a zbias attribute in the material to keep these from flashing.

When I convert these to FSX format using MCX it sets the transparency just fine, and I set the NoShadow to True to avoid seeing a shadow around them.

But at altitude these polygons flicker pretty badly. I tried using the ZBias setting in MCX, but that raised them up so you cannot see the aircraft wheels now underneath them.

Is there a technique similar to the FS9 zbias material setting, or do I have to live with flickering in FSX?

Thanks,
 
I did figure out a way - use them in the original FS9 format. The "FS9 transparencies punch holes in all objects" problem isn't present since they are lying on the ground and cannot occlude any other objects. I just need to remove anything from that library that needs to be converted to FSX for other reasons.
 
Hi,

No, fsx mdl files don't support the zbias command. That's why modelconverterx raises the object slightly. With p3d v2 the zbias command has been introduced again.
 
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