Simviation Forum - Adding the bubble canopy...

Jun 7^th, 2004 at 11:36am

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Can one of you guys point me in the right direction for getting started on this? The one tutorial for canopy making involves a integral canopy and isn't very helpful for my Corsair. I have the basic shape, but I have been tinkering with it and getting nowhere. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 12:38pm

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It's looking good, go with your instincts (and BACK UP)!!!

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Reply #2 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 1:12pm

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Thanks Felix, after some more tinkering, I came up with this, which seems about on par with late FS98 or FS2k.

There's an interesting thing I don't really understand though. I figured out how to make a transparent texture, but I had to apply it to the areas I had intended to be opaque. Once I did that, the rest of the canopy became transparent. Why would that happen?

Also, am I right in assuming I'll need to split the front and back pieces off?

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Reply #3 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 1:41pm

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Yes - My approach tends to be to create the canopy, taking into consideration the framing required.

If I create the full canopy as one piece( instead of a front and rear bubble), once I'm satisfied with the final shape, I'll split off the frame(s) from the "glass". I'll set the glass material appropriately, then texture - or not - as appropriate. Since I've set the glass material to be transparent, I'll only worry about the alpha channel in texturing the "glass" part if I want some sheen or reflectivity, since the transparency is in the material, not the texture.

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Reply #4 - Jun 7^th, 2004 at 10:36pm

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Felix, what happened here? It was clear in FSDS, but when I compiled it into FS9, it turned opaque. ??? Tongue

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Reply #5 - Jun 10^th, 2004 at 7:02pm

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Wow! Its been a while but its looking great! Awesome! Shocked

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Reply #6 - Jun 10^th, 2004 at 7:35pm

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Thanks Fooly, it still has a LONG way to go...

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Reply #7 - Jun 10^th, 2004 at 10:29pm

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Is it going to have a VC?

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Reply #8 - Jun 10^th, 2004 at 10:40pm

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Well, the idea is to use this as a kind of a test bed to teach myself how to do this. One month ago, I had never even touched FSDS. The plan is that it may not be the most accurate plane ever, but it will have everything that I need to learn on it. So it may have some lind of a rudimentary VC, but don't expect it to be jawdropping.

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Reply #9 - Jun 10^th, 2004 at 11:37pm

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Okay, well good luck.

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