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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: aldo_14 on August 10, 2004, 04:12:52 pm

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 10, 2004, 04:12:52 pm

(http://www.aldo14.f2s.com/er1.jpg)
(http://www.aldo14.f2s.com/er2.jpg)
(i.e. you can see all the way throught the far transparent edge)

i.e. is this inevitable with transparency, or is it down to a simple model error?

Could it be because the cockpit is one sided? (wouldn't convert with double sided)

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: Col. Fishguts on August 10, 2004, 04:28:14 pm

Polys viewed from the "inside" normally don't get rendered, so I guess it's because the glass is only one-sided.

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: Unknown Target on August 10, 2004, 06:18:47 pm

Duplicate the canopy and reverse the polies on the duplicate. That'll make it two-sided.

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: StratComm on August 10, 2004, 10:22:35 pm

I'll be honest, I don't see the problem.  It looks like it should to me.  A second layer of transparent material might improve things a little, but I personally don't think it's worth it.

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 11, 2004, 04:03:57 am

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Originally posted by Unknown Target
Duplicate the canopy and reverse the polies on the duplicate. That'll make it two-sided.

I did.  Wouldn't convert..... it took me & Raa about 3 hours a few nights ago figuring out why the hell not.

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: Styxx on August 11, 2004, 06:30:50 am

Is the original model made on MAX?

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 11, 2004, 06:53:46 am

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Originally posted by Styxx
Is the original model made on MAX?

Yup :nod:

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: Styxx on August 11, 2004, 12:56:56 pm

Hmm, I'll have to talk to you tonight then.

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: aldo_14 on August 11, 2004, 02:25:31 pm

EDIT; I checked...the 2nd piccy - the seam - is because TS ****ed up the relative positions of the hull & cockpit models when importing.  

The top one, tho, is a bit of a bug.  It may simply be down to the fact that the canopy is slightly sjnk down, so there's a seam that should be visible at the pilots edge - but isn't.  I guess the transparency rendering (z-buffering/occlusion?) doesn;t account for visible parts of the hull model, then?

Title: Should this be happening (transparency)
Post by: vyper on August 15, 2004, 02:51:48 pm

May I say... feking awesome anyway.