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MSFS20 Transparency with Substance Painter and Blender

Losco Nosciuto

Losco Nosciuto

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Hello gents!


I've got one issue with my models lately. I was used to create Glass panes using single textures once, instead of unwrapping. This time, due to the Window pattern I am seeking, I was forced to unwrap them and paint the windows in Substnce Painter.

This said, In SP things works nicely in the pic below you can see the buildings interiors.
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Also, in blender is the same.
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The issue comes when exporting. No matter how I set the Opacity in the Blender2MSFS exporter. The final model IS NOT AFFECTED as you can see here
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NO MATTER how I set the Blend value, I get no change in the window opacity.

The only workaround I found so far has been editing the glass UV Map with Photoshop, changing the opacity manually, and use that as a texture.

Now. If that doesn't work, what's the Alpha Multiplier slide for, if it affects only Blender's Viewport? What's wrong with this model? I'm getting a serious headache. I tried solving it until 4.00AM this morning with no success but manually editing in Photoshop, but as you can imagine I'd like to just change the value in the Alpha Multiplier to some on-the-go corrections instead of keeping 3 Editing programs open at a time.

Hope somebody can help


Chris
 
Hello there Chris,

With my test till now I found out the the best way to make glass work is not to use any texture!
Here are my settings for one small tower building.

Note: In Blender the glass will appear 100% transparent and with no reflections but in Game Engine it looks like it should.


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Hi @AnelToro089 ! Thank you, I sorted it re-making my Substance Painter export preset and making the glasses one sided (duplicated them and flipped normals for interiors)
Works flawlessly now and I can't get bugged any longer it seems (not that I want to😂)

Thank you so much!
 

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