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FSX HD runway

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Franckart Yves

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Hi, I've read an tutorial to make HD runway for FSX but this one is for gmax and I'don(t know enough Gmax to build it by myself. The question is it possible to do this in sketchup with the transparency texture? I d'ont found any alpha channel extension for Sketchup....


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SketchUp supports alpha channels by default.
Just place the textured planes slightly above each other, export when done modeling and put the collada through ModelConverterX' ground polygon wizard.
 
The transparency is part of the texture, you have to make a texture with alpha channel using a paint program like PS or gimp.
The vertical offset is up to you as it is only fir inside SketchUp. The ground polygon wizard will merge the planes to a zero offset anyway.
 
Black 0,0,0, will be totally transparent. White 255,255,255 is totally opaque. You will need to find a shade of gray that gives you the amount of transparency that you want for each texture. You can use layers in Sketchup for your planes to make it easier to work on each one separately.
 
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