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Prop0 blurred visibility

wardorichie

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Everything is working perfectly fine, my texture is on my disk, the disk is animated perfect.

My issue is, at full throttle, the propeller effect is way to black....it is a black line that spins.
I want to scale this back so it is barely visible.
Does anyone have the direction that I need to go, to tweek this visibility?

I have gone into the modeldef.xml and I have played tihwt the Visibility parameters for prop0_blurred...this had no effect.

Thank you anyone for your kind advise!

Rich
 
wardorichie

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wardorichie said:
Everything is working perfectly fine, my texture is on my disk, the disk is animated perfect.

My issue is, at full throttle, the propeller effect is way to black....it is a black line that spins.
I want to scale this back so it is barely visible.
Does anyone have the direction that I need to go, to tweek this visibility?

I have gone into the modeldef.xml and I have played tihwt the Visibility parameters for prop0_blurred...this had no effect.

Thank you anyone for your kind advise!

Rich
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Also, to test if this was an issue with my texture on my disk, I actually deleted my disk completely just for a proof of concept. The black line is still there, which tells me the answer lives in the SDK.
 
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Sorry, I don't understand what a "black line" is, when the blurred prop object is a disk?
 
wardorichie

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tgibson said:
Sorry, I don't understand what a "black line" is, when the blurred prop object is a disk?
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It looks like the propeller is spinning slow....the spin looks normal....just not at the blurred speed.

propellerBlackBlurr.JPG

Thank you so much for your efforts to assist.
 
tgibson

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That appears to be in the texture. Make the texture's alpha channel darker in the area of the prop to make it more transparent.
 
wardorichie

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tgibson said:
That appears to be in the texture. Make the texture's alpha channel darker in the area of the prop to make it more transparent.
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Thank you so much for your advise!! Yes, I see when I bring the DDS into Photoshop and turn on the Alpha...it is very clear what I need to do.

The export in Photoshop, I was exporting correctly, dxt3 explicit alpha
In 3ds max, I was using standard material, it should have been FlightSimX materials......duh!

All is working fine now!!! Thank you so much for your advise on the alpha...this was the ticket!!

Rich
 
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