F-18 Warhawks(help please?)

[ShaneG_old]

The texture file for the VC glass needs to be modified in an editing program like PSP or Photoshop, I'm tweaking and testing it now, if you want, I can just send you the file or I can upload it here at the V and you can just download it from there.

[Razgriz227]

oh wow thank you either way works for me

[ShaneG_old]

Bad news, I cannot get that darn glass to go clear for nothing, I have modified every texture in the folder and saved everthing having to do with the VC in every format possible and it still stays black .

Call to designers : Any one know how to fix the KBT F-18 glass? This is not like all the other easily fixed blacked out VCs. Is it possible that the VC glass texture is part of the model file itself? If it is, I imagine that there will be no possible way to adjust this one for FSX.
 I have done this many times with plenty of other planes and always had success, but this one is really stuck in my craw now.
I have also sent KBT an email requesting the name of the file used for the glass, but I don't see how I could have missed it, and a google search has turned up nothing of any value in helping to solve this one.

[Razgriz227]

thank you for your help
let me no if anything new turns up

[ShaneG_old]

I sure will, I'm gonna keep trying it, and hopefully will get a response from KBT.

[Razgriz227]

thanks so much

[Arkycharlie]

Guys, I have beat my head against the wall trying to fix the black glass in the VC in this aircraft more hours than I care to admit.

[StACAttack]

You could maybe download MDLMat and change the material of the glass? I can't seem to work it though...

[ftp]http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/MDLMat.zip[/ftp]

[Wii]

You could maybe download MDLMat and change the material of the glass? I can't seem to work it though...

[ftp]http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/MDLMat.zip[/ftp]

Program is for MDL's not BMP
PS: you hit the "FTP" link no the "URL" link
Yes, very strange, I can't seem to get them to work but the guy who posted them says in the readme he has FSX SP2 and it works fine... does it require accel maybe? :-/ I don't have accel and I really want an F-18

[ShaneG_old]

You could maybe download MDLMat and change the material of the glass? I can't seem to work it though...

[ftp]http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/MDLMat.zip[/ftp]

Program is for MDL's not BMP
PS: you hit the "FTP" link no the "URL" link
Yes, very strange, I can't seem to get them to work but the guy who posted them says in the readme he has FSX SP2 and it works fine... does it require accel maybe? :-/ I don't have accel and I really want an F-18

I have Accel and it won't work for me. I have played with every texture file that comes with this plane and can't get that glass to become transparent. I've never heard of a texture being part of a mdl file myself, but I'm not quite as knowledgable in that area as some others so I guess at this point it is a good possibility.
The funny thing is, I can get just about every other part of this plane to become transparent except for the cockpit glass.

[Wii]

You could maybe download MDLMat and change the material of the glass? I can't seem to work it though...

[ftp]http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/download/MDLMat.zip[/ftp]

Program is for MDL's not BMP
PS: you hit the "FTP" link no the "URL" link
Yes, very strange, I can't seem to get them to work but the guy who posted them says in the readme he has FSX SP2 and it works fine... does it require accel maybe? :-/ I don't have accel and I really want an F-18

I have Accel and it won't work for me. I have played with every texture file that comes with this plane and can't get that glass to become transparent. I've never heard of a texture being part of a mdl file myself, but I'm not quite as knowledgable in that area as some others so I guess at this point it is a good possibility.
The funny thing is, I can get just about every other part of this plane to become transparent except for the cockpit glass.

Just a shot in the blue but maybe this plane doesn't have a "vcglass.bmp" texture? It seems to me (because it shows up pitch black, not even a reflection) that something is missing. I could be wrong but I might send the guy who posted it a quick email this afternoon to see how he got it to work and why it isn't working for us. :-/

[ShaneG_old]

You know, you might be on to something there! I never even considered that possibility.

[Arkycharlie]

[quote]Just a shot in the blue but maybe this plane doesn't have a "vcglass.bmp" texture? It seems to me (because it shows up pitch black, not even a reflection) that something is missing. I could be wrong but I might send the guy who posted it a quick email this afternoon to see how he got it to work and why it isn't working for us.

[ShaneG_old]

I know which file they are refering to, I can make that door frame turn transparent but not what I thought was the glass, which is attached to the same file. The file that I believe to be the correct one for the vc glass is 'sh_vc04.bmp' , but have had no luck still. When I removed the file altogther, I just had more of the VC blacked out than I did before.
I even repainted that glass texture solid white, and solid black and set the appropriate alpha's and still nothing. Just blackness on the glass, but the frame would disappear.

[Arkycharlie]

Shane, I've discovered that if you remove chrome.bmp from the texture folder, it makes the exterior cockpit glass black.