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Help me with textures please

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Hello everyone

I'm totally new to textures so bear with my ignorance please ..

I would like that aircraft to appear more shiny in the sim (P3D v4.5) - and I would like the fuselage and the engine to show the same. The fuselage uses albedo, bump and specular maps. The engine only uses albedo and bump maps. I copy also the settings from MCX for the fuselage texture. All albedo textures backgrounds are white (although you can see the fuselage grey).

What should be the steps to follow ? Modifiy the settings ? Change the DDS textures ? I would definetely need a guide ;-)

When settings show that Smoothness source is AlbedoAlpha, does that mean that the alpha channel of the albedo texture serves for both the transparency and the smoothness or only for the smoothness ? In taht latter case, how is the transparency managed ?

Many thanks
 

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Hello...

Within P3D v4.5, all transparencies are handled through the albedo's alpha channel. The smoothness map is handled through either the albedo's alpha channel or the metallic's alpha channel, but never both or on a material that needs to be translucent.

The metallic map (PBR) can be used instead of the specular map.

You will need to create a specular map for the engine and that would be hard to do with having the model's UV layout. I am assuming that this model is not yours, maybe? Try contacting the author of the aircraft, if that is the case.
 
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