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Hi
I have just downloaded the Airport Enviroment Upgrade 7 from avsim. The author has created a glass reflection effect which is really a semi-transparent texture.It's quite effective and I like it.
How is this done? What tools are used?
I have only ever added 100% transparacy to my textures by using DXTBMP but I have paintshop pro and photo shop on my hard drive.
What innovative ideas do people have to make use of this trick? :scratchch

Vincent
 
Hi Vincent,

By using greyscales instead of white and black in your alpha channel, you are able to get different levels of transparancy. Have a look at this tutorial as well:

http://www.scenerydesign.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57

One note, reflection uses the alpha channel, like transparancy. But by default the alpha channel is used for transparancy, to use it for reflection some tweaks are needed (as GMax does not support reflection for scenery right away, only for aircraft GMax supports it directly).
 
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