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Aircraft cockpit glass hud visibillity adjustment

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In the Modelconverter X I try to improve the glass properties from the external view which in the original converted ac is "foggy".
According to the SDK I utilize the setting under Material Editor and parameter "p3d_glass_canopy" changing the "Framebuffer Blend" -Destination and Sorce to ONE- this cause the exported ac to crash MSFS. If not, it works fine but the hud is "milky". Perhaps I am changing the wrong parameter or changing it not correctly?
Any help appreciated.

Åke
 
Photo that explain the issue-any help available? Can I adjust any parameter in the Converter Material settings?
 

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Is this for MSFS or P3D? You mention a P3D material. And if using in MSFS is the model imported as glTF or mdl?
 
Hi Arno- MSFS
The aircraft is originally for P3d/FSX and converted for MSFS. The model folder in the MSFS version contain two mdl-files and one cfg file. Also the imported aircraft for the conversion in the ModelXConverter is in the mdl format in the model folder.

Also - is it possible to edit a mdl-file from a MSFSLegacyImporter aircraft in the Material Editor and save it accordingly or is the only possible process order to first use the ModelXConverter with changes in the Material Editor trying to solve the issue followed by the LegacyImporter before installing in the Community folder?

I hope this was understandable...
 
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I have no experience with the legacy importer, so I can't comment on the workflow. But I would expect that if you make changes to the material, so need to export the mdl file again to store them.
 
Unfortunately if I make changes to the general (external) mdl and export it it cause the MSFS to crasch. The interior mdl is editable and exportable but there are no such window issue that I can find there.. dead end
Is it crashing because of the "mouse click" issue i.e. do I have to do it again before exporten the revised mdl?
 
What do you mean with crashing due to mouse click issue? Is that something in MCX or in MSFS?
 
It is a well known circumstance that when importing a FSX ac into MSFS the Mouse click function needs to be disabled in the Object hierarchi. This is one of few actions in the MCX before Importing by the Legacy Importer, see pictures. If not, the imported ac will crash MSFS.
So my question was simply if I take the interior or external mdl from the imported functional in MSFS ac and make changes in the MCX and export them over the imported files, is this process above with the mouse click abortion not valid anymore and cause the crash?

I assume this way of doing it without making a new Import do not work.

I am now doing the process from scratch again with the additional changes to the hud environment to see if I could come across a solution, i.e. FSX original> MCX changes> Legacy Importer> test in MSFS

Quite time consuming as I have to restart MSFS everytime which take 5-6 minutes...

Åke
 

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