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Change material drawing order through Hierarchy Editor?

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Hi!

I'm currently dealing with some drawing order issues (the well known xray effect of transparent windows not showing whats behind). Given a building model: If I'm not wrong, materials of objects inside a building should be drawn before the material containing the semitransparent window texture to prevent the xray effect. I was wondering if the hierarchy editor actually shows the material drawing order of the model? And if so, would a function to change the order/position of a material within the SceneGraphNode be feasible or make sense?

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Thanks,
Volker
 
You should have pretty good luck using the Material Editor drop-down presets for material attributes. Find the material the window eclipses and select "set default opaque."
 
The window texture is ok and transparent but when looking through it in game you don't see certain models that are placed behind it. I will post an image later ;-)
 
It is a known and familiar phenomenon. There are several solutions, the one posted is easiest to describe and implement. Consider if the inside of your model has no texture it will appear exactly as you describe. Untextured faces render transparent as do any faces they eclipse from the observer. I am aware of a situation with effects that appears to be mitigated through manipulating drawing order by adding empty LOD's. That trick will not work in this circumstance because yours is a single distinct model.
 
For which FS version is this? For FSX you should be able to solve it with the material settings. For FS2004 you indeed need to change the order in the object. That is not something MCX can do at the moment.
 
Hi,

If you have the source files, in GMAX and FSDS3 (?) you can place the transparent object last in the drawing order by giving their material a little bit of transparency (Opacity = 99, unless that number is already less than 100) and in FSDS2 you can cut the objects and paste them back in to place them last. I don't know about Sketchup.
 
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