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Windows, translucent materials.

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I am not sure if this has already been fixed but i am having trouble with translucent materials, such as glass in windows. i use sketchup for my buildings and when i bring them into MCX they look fine. but when i compile them into FS9 the windows in buildings somehow develop a bug/strange transparency effect.
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you should be able to see the inside of this terminal.
 
Hi,

That is quite normal behaviour for FS2004 models. You need to control the drawing order of the materials. That's usually done using the name of the texture. So if you make sure that the name of the inside texture is alphabetically before that of the outside texture it should work.

At least with GMax it always worked like that, never tried it with MCX though. But both use MakeMDL to make the MDL.
 
I shall give it a shot, so if the window texture is for example, Glass.bmp ans the interior textures are Wall.bmp the i would want to make "wall.bmp" into "AWall.bmp"?
 
Yes, that's the idea.

It will only work if your building doesn't have a very complex shape though, else the drawing order depends on the viewing direction. Makemdl doesn't support that.
 
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