Glass

Posted:
Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:55 am
by 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
Re: Glass

Posted:
Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:14 am
by 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!
Re: Glass

Posted:
Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:39 am
by 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.