Invisible Corsair

[patchz]

This is just weird. While messing around at Corpus Christi NAS I observed this phenomena. The Corsair becomes invisible when viewing through the canopy of a parked T-34. Can anybody explain this?

[garryrussell]

Are you using FS.X with FS9 aircraft......I'm thinking like when clouds dissappear behind prop due I guess to some different transparency order.......

Just a thought off the top of my head.

Garry

[Daube]

Are you using FS.X with FS9 aircraft......I'm thinking like when clouds dissappear behind prop due I guess to some different transparency order.......

Just a thought off the top of my head.

Garry

I think you are absolutely right, this must be the same transparency problem that make the cloud dissapear behind the prop, or the prop dissapear behind some scenery objects.

[patchz]

Are you using FS.X with FS9 aircraft......I'm thinking like when clouds dissappear behind prop due I guess to some different transparency order.......

Just a thought off the top of my head.

Garry

Nope. FS9 aircraft in FS9, MAIW Corpus Christi NAS package, Guy Hulin Corsair.

[jrom]

I've had the same problem whan trying to make props in FSDS. Everything is fine until you look from the front through the prop disk, the part of the plane visible inside the disk is invisible. So I think it's the T-34.

Does the same thing happen to all your planes?

[patchz]

I've had the same problem whan trying to make props in FSDS. Everything is fine until you look from the front through the prop disk, the part of the plane visible inside the disk is invisible. So I think it's the T-34.

Does the same thing happen to all your planes?

Don't know. That's the first time I've seen it. But based on what you said, it bears further investigation. Thanks.

[Ospreyluvr]

Edit:Never mind, I see it now!

[MIKE JG]

It's a limitation of FS9.  The canopy is both transparent and reflective at the same time.  My theory is that FS9 doesn't know how to handle this situation graphically and you get transparency holes when looking through these objects.

If you put that AI plane or many of our other recent designs inside a scenery structure, a hangar for example, you'll get the same effect.

[Alejandro Rhodes]

[quote]It's a limitation of FS9.

[garryrussell]

I've had the same problem whan trying to make props in FSDS. Everything is fine until you look from the front through the prop disk, the part of the plane visible inside the disk is invisible. So I think it's the T-34.

Does the same thing happen to all your planes?

That sounds like earlier versions of FSDS where this happens unless you make sure the transparent parts are at the bottom of your parts hirachy list.

Garry

[MIKE JG]

I stand corrected I see.  That is good information to know. I will pass this along to our modelers and see if that fixes the problem.

[tcco94]

It must be Harry Potter's Cloak

[MIKE JG]

Wait a minute....

[Alejandro Rhodes]

[quote]Wait a minute....

[Hagar]

Yes, you right this is weird ,Although this is original CFS2 brough By Microsoft into Flight Simulator 9 ,so is not big deal its not the T-34 is the Default FS2004 model issue ..But let's face it ,who need to see the Corsair thru other airplane's windows and from the outside.

I can't remember very well ,I install my original FS2004 then I made a CD which install everything ,airplanes and a software freeware (can't remember the name that make it more real lands scapes clouds landiing lights etc, ) all included in a CD I hit replace all the original files .
My point is I can't remember very well if this is the original that comes in the CDs of MSFS9..
I think it is ,but not 100% sure ,I stop using FS9 a while ago ,I only use it for design ,to compare some older models for FSX

     

You might have something there Alex. The CFS2 default Corsair was included with FS2002, not FS9. I didn't know it works in FSX.

PS. That's not the same Corsair that patchz has the problem with.