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Transparent PBR Texture?
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Unfortunately, the PBR Material Editor in Max does not offer "Transparent" as a render mode option.
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P3D v5,1 is the target platform. I've tried Translucent and it does not work. In fact I can't even get a mouse "hand" to work even when the polygon(s) can be seen!
Suddenly all of the gauge faces aren't being rendered. They are totally black... <sigh>
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Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't set up the PBR conversion Materials for this project. I just dealing with the aftermath...
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Doug, what is perplexing is that until I made one minor adjustment to the albedo bitmap to increase the brightness of one gauge face, the darn thing was working perfectly! As soon as I re-saved the modified albedo bitmap, the gauge faces went totally black.
Even stranger, using RealLight I can adjust the panel/gauge lighting and the textures will show up perfectly! RealLight blends multiple NightLight textures and overlays them on the base albedo bitmap via $VC1_NL_n dynamic bitmap.
I can assign any other Material to these gauge faces and they will appear textured in the sim, albeit with the wrong textures. This eliminates the possibility of "poisoned polys." Reinforcing that test, a single planar object will fail to display the gauge faces when that P3DPBR Material is applied: totally black.
I've tried making a "copy" of one of the other Materials, renamed it and changed the textures to use the correct albedo, metallic, normal, and NL texture names: totally black!
I've even tried loading the source file I was provided with the same failed result. I'm out of ideas at this point!
Even stranger, using RealLight I can adjust the panel/gauge lighting and the textures will show up perfectly! RealLight blends multiple NightLight textures and overlays them on the base albedo bitmap via $VC1_NL_n dynamic bitmap.
I can assign any other Material to these gauge faces and they will appear textured in the sim, albeit with the wrong textures. This eliminates the possibility of "poisoned polys." Reinforcing that test, a single planar object will fail to display the gauge faces when that P3DPBR Material is applied: totally black.
I've tried making a "copy" of one of the other Materials, renamed it and changed the textures to use the correct albedo, metallic, normal, and NL texture names: totally black!
I've even tried loading the source file I was provided with the same failed result. I'm out of ideas at this point!