Transparency Broken by Clouds in SP2

[hek293]

Hi all,

As this thread's title imposes, my problem is that in all my scenery objects which have transparent textures applied to them there is a bleed through. Usually clouds and light effects break the transparency. The latter is not a real problem as it is barely noticeable, but the clouds bleed-through is a huge spoiler.

I am using FSDS 3.5 with the following workflow:

-Material Trans

-Export to .X file and then used Farfy's tutorial tweak for transparency (from here: http://farfyscenery.katuu.com/)

-Compile through XtoMDL.exe manually

-Add MDL to Instant Scenery

-Place object


Is there any way to 'heal' this SP2 transparency thing?

Many thanks!
Emilios



*********SORRY! SOLUTION FOUND....MISSED A LINE DURING .X FILE EDITING....TWEAK IS WORKING******

 

[hek293]

*********SORRY! SOLUTION FOUND....MISSED A LINE DURING .X FILE EDITING....TWEAK IS WORKING******[/QUOTE]

Well, me again...
The major problem was solved but there still an issue as shown attached.

Is it my texture?

Thanks a lot!!

Emilios

 

[Farfy]

Hi Emilios

Humm…. very interesting would you send me the texture for that plant please.
Farfy2@gmail.com

H_Farfy

 

[rhumbaflappy]

In my experience, Alpha works correctly only with DXT1 textures in FSX.

Dick

 

[Farfy]

I normally use DXT1 for all texture with no alpha channel and DXT3 for textures with alpha channels for FSX and have had no problems…yet

In this case it looks like the texture that Emilios is using for his tree dose not have clean cut from the branches to the background colour so he is getting funny edges showing in the sim.

H_Farfy

 

[n4gix]

ACES advises that DXT5 compression is best for FSX, as it has fewer generated "artifacts" after decompression by the sim...

 

[Farfy]

Ah very good Bill.
I just wasn’t sure but I will start using DXT5 Thanks

H_Farfy

 

[hek293]

I normally use DXT1 for all texture with no alpha channel and DXT3 for textures with alpha channels for FSX and have had no problems…yet

In this case it looks like the texture that Emilios is using for his tree dose not have clean cut from the branches to the background colour so he is getting funny edges showing in the sim.

H_Farfy

Hi again,

Just to update anyone who might be having similar trouble. After Farfy correctly pointed out, I tweaked the alpha channel to maximise contrast and ginve a sharp edge between black/white margins so that the fine needles in the tree are more clearly defined.

After, I selected all white colours in the alpha channel and blurred them out a bit to reduce pixelation. Saved as 1024x1024 DXT5 w/alpha and here are the results. Quite nice I think....

Thanks for all the help!

Emilios