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MSFS20 Propeller Animation in Blender

SleeveValve

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Hi all,

I'm having some trouble animating a propeller in Blender. I've successfully animated all of my control surfaces (tested in sim), and tried the same approach to animating the blurred propeller, using the Cessna 152's .xml file as my template. Unlike the control surface animations, the propeller code has a bunch of nodes which leave me absolutely befuddled! At first, I thought they were just object names, so I tried replacing each value with the object name of my blurred prop (just to see if it worked) and changing the ANIM_NAME appropriately, but that doesn't appear to work, as shown in the in-game screen-grab attached. The prop spins at ~1200-1500 rpm (unless I fudged the ratio in the .cfg, in which case ~3000), so it should be visible, right? Even when static in the hangar, nothing appears. I'm using Blender 2.90.1. Any ideas?

Thank you!
 

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Best way is to have a single empty as the root object for ALL of the propx_still/slow/blurred and animate that. This becomes your ANIM_NODE_ID entry.
Then the other nodes control the visibility: STILL_NODE_ID etc
 
Thank you, that worked perfectly! And showed me another issue...if I may ask, what shader is used for the blurred prop? I have the albedo map from the default Cessna 152 mapped onto a low-poly rather lentil-shaped mesh. It appears with transparency (though no gradation) just fine in Blender, but shows up as an opaque disk, albedo applied, in the sim! I'm using the MSFS Standard shader under the Material Params in Blender. I can only imagine I'm missing something dumb, but I just can't figure out what.
 

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Make sure you have the Render Parameters in the MSFS Material Params set to: Alpha Mode: Blend
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Yep, have Alpha Mode set to Blend. I even tried it with a new texture, just a transparent 1024x1024px square from GIMP. Still just a white circle. Here are my rendering settings, and the shader (should be as-generated, but maybe I'm missing something?).
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Yea I can see immediately that the graph has not connected the Alpha. Recommend recreating the material OR change the alpha to Opaque and then back to Blend. Will try send a screenshot of what it SHOULD look like later.
 
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