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Hi everybody.

Got some switches with some plastic covers.

To get that transparent plastic effect I now use a single material with the opacity set etc and it works great, but is it possible to add that texture to a sheet and still get that transparent effect or will you end up with the whole sheet being transparent or is the way to go set the transparency on only the switch texture in a PSD?

Its for FSX(A)
 
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Zeiten,

Yes, that's not a problem. You can use the same texture sheet for your non transparent and transparent parts. But they each would need their own material (or submaterial). Or, you could specify that the alpha channel of the texture defines the opacity.... anything you want to be transparent would be black and for opaque you would use white, you can of course use tones of grey inbetween, for semi transparency. I use that method for decals etc.

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Ahh.

So I can..lets say I have a sheet called sheet01 and use the same sheet in material slot 1, 2 etc but with different opacity setting.. that makes sens :)

Or add (or edit) alpha channel to the part of the sheet that contains the texture.

Thanks for the help.
Will try this out:)
 
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