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FSX vc cockpit transparency

robystar

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Hi all,

The older I get, the more brain cells seem to stop working:rolleyes:.
I used to have the Fa-18's of Daisuke Yamamoto (please correct me if spelled wromg:eek:) working well in FSX, including the VC and its gauges.
Now that I switched computers to a Windows 7 one that is finally capable of dealing with FSX, I run into problems with my migrated FS9 aircraft in that I cannot seem to get my vc cockpit transparent any longer (I lost my panel.cfg's, in fact all cfg's, in the migrating process).
The gauges is not the problem, but the vc.bmp is (I think).
Can any one out there, enlighten me?

Roby

PS I know it has to do with the model but as MCX is not capable of making the conversion without losing the animations, I am looking for another solution.
 
Hi Roby:

One might wonder if you are using FSX in DX-10 mode when this anomaly is seen on the aircraft in question, and whether it happens in FSX DX-9 mode as well. ;)


There is a FS utility package called "Addon Converter X" which offers a executable module-based demo of 10-minute limited duration per FS session, which IIUC adapts a copy of one's legacy aircraft and/or scenery MDL and/or mapped texture format ...so that they may display properly when used in FS.

http://www.flightsimtools.com/adconvx/


Addon Converter X 'adapting' of (copied ?) FS legacy content can be either performed at run time, or by pre-processing before run-time into what appears to be a encrypted database; the adapted copy of the legacy content is somehow linked / mapped back to the original (...used as a 'proxy' in FSX at run time ?).


BTW: Although Addon Converter X can correct 'most' legacy aircraft anomalies when such aircraft are used in fSX DX-10 mode, a more comprehensive approach to correcting anomalies seen in FS at run time with aircraft and scenery is reportedly planned for the soon-to-be-released "DX10SceneryFixer" payware product by Steve J. Parsons as a successor to his ongoing freeware 'DX-10 fixer' project as discussed in the AVSIM 'DX-10 Discussions, Hints and Help' Forum:

http://forum.avsim.net/forum/569-dx-10-discussions-hints-and-help/


...and on Steve's Blog:

http://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/dx10-scenery-fixer/



If the fixes offered by the above do not work, perhaps texture format conversion and/or alpha channel editing may be of some help, short of a more in-depth conversion and re-export of a legacy aircraft MDL for use on one's own computer in FSX ? :confused:


Hope this info helps you (...or other readers). :)

GaryGB
 
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Hi,

And thanks a lot Gary.
I had a look at the two sites.
The first one uses a method I am not sure I would like to install as it does not change the aircraft model or its textures itself and the second one is only for DX10 (and maybe the first one too?).
I do not use DX10 as I see no real difference between the two.
Anyway, I solved the problem the old fashioned way by adapting the panel.cfg and the BMP's alpha channels (it took a while:().
But thanks for the links (I did not know those programs existed).

Roby
 
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