I'm pretty sure my Flexwings and Microlights have translucent wings covered with Draclon.....
The light certainly shows through them, but not the scenery...in the Sim...!

Paul...Flexing his wings... 8)...!

P.S. Can you download one of the Microlights and have a peek at the wing material charactistics in Paint Shop Pro...?

The Thruster T-600N has translucent wings... ...!

Downloading the Thruster now...

Edit: They don't look translucent to me.  Nice dynamic shine, but totally opaque.

Edit again: The flying surfaces on the Skyseeker are translucent, but only from underneath.  If you roll inverted it doesn't work.  But inverting a Skyseeker for more than a few seconds is cruel anyway.

Gryshnak

Maybe if you paint them to be slightly translucent, using the black as transparent intead of shine, and giving it a dark tone?

Hi
There are 2 ways of doing it material or textures each has their own pros and cons
with material you need to build all the spars and cross sections in the wing and its always going to be transperent,also there is a lot more work involved where if you use transperent textures you can get away with minimal internal structure (you can paint in the spars ect and make them solid in the texture)if the end user wants to they can change the transperency to suit different models,paint jobs,coverings ect but you cant use the alpha channel for reflections.Rick Pipers Slingsby T21 Glider I think used the transperent texture for the wings ect give it a looksy as its pretty damn good
Cheers
Wozza
   

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Why You can do the same thing in FSDS3
call the material DS_whatever,when compiled it will draw the pollys double sided check the makemdl.doc file for more info
Wozza

Hi Mate
here is the sections whilst small they are in the makemdl.doc file
LINE_      Lines are drawn instead of triangles.
ZBIAS_      A default z-bias is added to the polygons.
ZBIAS_##      A z-bias of ## is added to the polygons.
DS_      Polygons are drawn double sided.
BRIGHT_      The material is bright (emits light).
LIGHT_BEACON      A beacon point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_STROBE      A strobe point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color
LIGHT_RECO      A recognition point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color
LIGHT_WING      A wing point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_LOGO      A logo point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_NAV      A navigation point light is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_TAXI      A taxi spotlight is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
LIGHT_LAND      A landing spotlight is drawn, and the diffuse color is the light color.
Animate_VCRainMoving_16_20_
     The physical geometry under the airspeed_effects_windshield node need a material name of animate_VCRainMoving_16_20_ and must mapped to texture VCRainMoving0000.bmp.  The material needs to be at 0 percent opacity.  See the Gmax_aircraft SDK for more details.
Animate_VCRainStopped_16_20_      The physical geometry under the airspeed_effects_windshield node need a material name of animate_VCRainStopped_16_20_ and must mapped to texture VCRainStopped0000.bmp.  The material needs to be at 0 percent opacity.  See the Gmax_aircraft SDK for more details.
Animate_ChainSegment_16_100_      The physical geometry under the engine0_turning node needs a material name of Animate_ChainSegment_16_100_ and must mapped to texture ChainSegment0000.bmp. See the Gmax_aircraft SDK for more details.
Texture Names
MakeMDL makes the following assumptions about texture names:
•      No matter what the texture extension is in the .x file, the output file references a texture with a .bmp extension. If you model with .tga files, the output file references a .bmp file.
•      If the texture name starts with “DECAL_” a z-bias is added automatically to all polygons drawn with this texture.
•      If the texture name is “DECAL_NNUMBER” then the texture is used for the NNumber of the aircraft.
•      If the texture name ends with “_T” then the texture is the undamaged version of the texture (the damaged version ends with “_D”).
•      If the texture name starts with “$” or “_panel_” then the texture is assumed to be a virtual cockpit (VC) gauge texture.


You do have the fs9 sdks/makemdl and not the fs2002 ones?
Wozza

I don't know, maybe I'm getting a bit slow in my old age...

I created a texture (a 1024x1024 bitmap with "This is a test" written all over it), named it ds_test.bmp and saved it.

Then I created a simple polygon in FSDSv3, and assigned the ds_test.bmp texture to it.

Then I exported it to FS9, to find it was only visible from the top.  From underneath there's nothing there.  It's not double sided.  I tried it again with a tube and got the same result, the texture was only visible from the outside.

This was so simple, any suggestions what's gone wrong this time? 

Gryshnak