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Just a refresher please. I have an object like a fence or something that I'm supposed to see through but it messes with the background.(drawing order etc.)

1. click on texture editor
2. click on the circle 'alpha'
3. click on the rectangle- set default trans.

Done? or do I have to export or some other way of saving my changes?

I would assume I would export ONLY if I were using this object in another library - with author's permission. Bob
 
AFAIK just making those changes in MCX do nothing to the MDL file located in the library BGL. You would have to Export the MDL file to save the changes, then replace the existing MDL file within the library BGL file with your edited MDL. I don't know of any program that will do that directly (although I've never tried it so there might be), although I hope that Library Creator XML (or MCX) will eventually do it. :)
 
Hi,

You do indeed have to export the object again to save the changes. So the best approach would be to make a MDL and put that in the library.

Btw, there is no need to select the radio button of alpha first. That is only used to show the alpha channel in the texture preview image. So just press the "Set Default Transparent" button for the material with the problem should be enough.
 
Thanx Arno. What messed me up is not doing this for a while. I'm off doing something else for a few months and then coming back to this my brain goes...."now let's see.... what was I supposed to do?" hahaha.

Lately I have been running into libraries that can be manipulated in Instant Scenery.... seen and worked on in Model Con X, but Instant Scenery's library maker can't open it. so odd! older bgl?

Anyway- in that case I sometimes can decompile that library into an xml and a list of mdl's. Then if I am lucky I choose the right mdl to delete and replace with the mdl I modified and exported from Model Con X. From there I mess up and can't get the xml to recompile into a bgl. (using newbglanalyse) It either doesn't recompile or it recompiles without the new mdl in place.

If you or anyone have ideas how to do this it would be appreciated. I figure there is one little step I am overlooking. Bob
 
Hi Bob,

Not that it will help you much now, but I have a Library Creator XML update planned that will allow you to load and manipulate the BGL file directly. That could solve the need to decompile, each.

One thing to be careful with is mixing FSX and FS2004 objects. They can't be in the same library. But apart from that there is no risk in decompiling a BGL and later recompiling the XML again. Although it is better to only do this with your own libraries of course.
 
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