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Could anyone help me with a material setup for glass (Perspex canopy) in Blender 2.75.
Try as I might I cannot get a specular shine.
Thank you in advance.
Rob
 
I believe it's not different from a normal material, except for being transparent.

But wait, I'm having a concept plane importing right now, so I will give you feedback on its glass settings.
Be right back!

Daan
 
Ok, make sure "No Base Material Specular" is turned ON in your Enhanced Parameters of the FSX Material Params.

Let me know.
 
Hello Daan, Thank you for your help, that was certainly part of my problem.
I now have, what I think is, a perfect bubble canopy appearance and I'm able to control the reflection and specular shine.
Should anyone be struggling with the same problem my advice would be "dont overthink it" as I did.
To set up a new material which I called "window" make sure the FSX material box is ticked, also environment reflections, set reflection at 55, specular at 20,set transparent
and of course "No base material spec."
to control the transparency I ran my glass texture through DXTBmp and used an alpha of 80 and saved as 32bit.

Rob
 
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