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FSXA New Blender material problems

Dutcheeseblend

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Hi guys,

With the release of the T.5 just behind me, I thought it would be a good idea to get up-to-date with the current FSX/P3D toolset.
So, for that, I downloaded Blender 2.83 as well.

I copied my T.5 source files into a new iteration and opened them in the new Blender. But, I appear to have lost all material/texture data.
Let's explain it with pictures.

This is what I find in one of my materials. The naming is correct.
1609166724398.png


When I open the texture tab, I see
1. The wrong texture.
2. It's saying something about "Brush". Why?
3. The assignment (diffuse, spec, etc) cannot be selected anymore
4. There's only one texture slots here, instead of three (texture, spec and bump).
1609166759133.png


So I thought maybe I enable the FSX/P3D material mode on the material tab.
There I have to select the textures, I did accordingly.

But yet, nothing shows up in my viewport:
1609166928981.png


Just what am I doing wrong?

In the toolset, there's word about: "texture node is replaced with Eevee shader" but opening the texture node shows a quite empty screen.

Anybody?

Thanks guys!

Daan
 
Pyscen

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I ran across this with an older blender file ( previous 2.80+). Is the original blend file prior to v2.80?

You will have to go to each material and change it to Specular workflow and I believe that I had to replace the textures accordingly as well.

The problem is not with you but from the fact that blender is going from Blender Render to EVEE. This is because there isn't a render as such in the newer versions of Blender. The general settings should be in Cycles (which then to Specular).
 
Dutcheeseblend

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Yes the file is from v2.79.

Now I've installed the MSFS toolset, I noticed the same problem, that an existing material does not really convert to a new style material.
So I guess one needs to replace the existing materials?
 
Pyscen

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No, the materials should be fine. Just make sure its set to Cycles and each material is set as specular or PBR.
Cycles
 
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