Glass

[HondoXP]

greetings all.

I'm a bit rusty. I havn't played with my FSDS in 2 years.

useing the newest version. 2.2 and the FS2004 updates, I need help creating glass textures for canopys
Whats the best way to go about that.

Also, any tips about animation would be apriciated.

Thanks

[Felix/FFDS]

Welcome back.

By the way, the latest version is FSDS3 (released yesterday)


For your glass parts, set a material alpha of 64 or 128 - whatever sets your fancy.

I tend to go with a greenish color and alpha of 64.

For animations, you'll need to pay strict attention to the tags you choose, and whether it's a stock/default animation (such as elevator, l_aileron, r_aileron, etc) which is determined by the part axis orientation, or a keyframe animation (l_gear, r_gear) etc., for which you have to set the various key frames.

The FSDS help file on animation is actually quite good!

[HondoXP]

Thanks, Felix

I havn't seen version 3 anywere, not even the Abacus webesite.

I made some nice glass with a difuse of light grey and alpha 200.

[Felix/FFDS]

Thanks, Felix

I havn't seen version 3 anywere, not even the Abacus webesite.

?   It's on the main page of the Abacus website - "Quick news" blurb....