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FSXA Terminal Glass

codeywynne

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Hey guys, having a small problem here... No matter what I do, I can just not seem to get this to work correctly! (I am licensing FSDT Add-on manager so I am using MDL's instead of bgl's not that it matters... I do not believe.) Basically I have a mdl with all interior and exterior parts excluding glass... the glass is in a seperate mdl file, and what happens is, The glass will only appear at a certain view angle for some reason... Right now with the material settings, with the transparent glass, if I have Z-Write Alpha enabled the interior behind the glass disappears, but if I have it disabled the interior doesn't disappear, yet the glass does.... Here are some photos to help out with seeing what I am talking about.... Been at this for hours and can't seem to figure it out, so any recommendations are welcome!
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Why would you put it in as a separate mdl?

If is suddenly disappears sounds like a bounding box error.

Put a plane larger than the glass one under the ground, flat with the ground (parallel) with no_crash on, and texture it with the same texture. Try that. Should increase the bounding box size.

Or just include the glass in with the terminal...
 
More issues arise when it is all within the same mdl file! I have tried the hidden plane, but have not assigned it the same texture... I will go ahead and try that. Any other suggestions?

Edit: Tried the suggesting with the hidden plane underground with the same texture, still the issue is there with the glass!
 
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Glass transparency is a big headache. I think inside should no have Z testing and should be default opaque. Glass is default transparent.
 
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