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Window transparencies...

Shaun

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Is there any trick to getting this to work? I have selected double sided, and either the transparency on the near side overwrites the material on the other side of the tower, making it sem backless, or the transparency of the far side makes the front material invisible.
 
Which fs version? And what tool are you modelling in?

Send from my phone using Tapatalk, so excuse the short sentences and possible typos
 
FSX, GMAX. The transparency of the window is defined by the alpha channel in the texture. Or, is it necessary to have the actual window polygon as a new material?

I have set the material settings it to both settings defined in the the "new aircraft procedures" in the SDK for windows.... and pretty much every other variation.
 
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N.M, I just had to make the frame out of solid objects and the put the window panes in as double sided planes, with a semi-transparent texture, works like a charm, took three times as long to do though.
 
Though I was able to get proper trasparency with textures only for my old ENCN tower, I took quite a bit of experimenting.

So I'd rather recommend what you just did, better off making making the frame mesh, and let windows only be windows :)

Cheers,
:stirthepo
 
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