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P3D v4 What controls the reflection on the windows?

jtanabodee

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Hi,
I have converted my model to be PBR material. I found that the reflection of the windows is much less than the same one in FSX. What controls this? I have put pure white to the Metalic teture on Red channel and pur pure white on Alpha channel. But it still very faint reflection on the glass. Are there any setting in the properties?
 
I have found, while using PBR, You simply can't because the alpha channel of the albedo isn't read the same way in P3D v4.5. You could try changing it to transparent and go from there.

But, The only way I have found was to use the specular's alpha (as in FSX).
 
Thanks Doug, that is what I found too. Let it be as it is then. I am too sick and tired of changing materials. If I don't do it right, I will create more drawcalls from the same texture. I think PBR is very good for game rendering but it still has problems. Shadow does not use alpha, reflection of the glass and another thing I can remember: the building with interior such as hangar will be flicker like hell. I need to switch back to native FSX material.
 
Once upon a time (a couple of years ago) I thought of a way in handling reflections but I was unable to test it for one reason or another. I thought I tested all probable cases, but I know this was different somehow. I should have written it down somewhere when I thought of it. If I happen to think of it again I will definitely write it down and test it.

Concerning the flickering, do you have a model to give to test out on... I haven't run across this so I'm wondering what is going on.
 
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I found one mistake. The default value for reflection is only 1 in MCX. I am not sure if 1 means scale 0.0-1 or 1% out of 100%. I have changed to 100 and it is better but far less than what it is in default FSX material. However it is good enough.
About the model, you can simple make a huge box, delete one side of it. Then clone and flip the surface to be internal of the box. Attach both of them together and export. You will see if it flickering or not. If you find there is no flickering, I will check my model if there is something wrong.


Another thought, it might be my mistake making it double sided material.
 
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