Autogen Scenery invisible Through Prop Blur Disk

[Jafo]

Gavin, thanks again for the additional info. Will attack it again later when my brain is in the right "Zen" state.

Mulled by alcohol....

[gavinc]

Mulled by alcohol....

A little splash never hurts to get the creative juices flowing

[TARPSBird]

A little splash never hurts to get the creative juices flowing

And a little splash (or two) did indeed help me with this conversion. I have all the animations working properly except for the prop's transition from slow to blurred. Nothing I've done has fixed that. I noticed in Paul's FSX-native Northrop BT-1 the prop_blurred part has a "custom" visibility entry: custom_vis_PROP_MAX_RPM_PCT_1_01
I suspect that has something to do with the slow prop disappearing after the engine throttles up but I am clueless as to how to duplicate that. Also, now that I have all parts of the exterior model working OK I've noticed that the basic VC of Paul's original plane is gone. I've almost concluded that except for the learning curve this conversion hasn't been worth the man hours just to see autogen scenery through the prop arc. Any suggestions for restoring or aliasing the VC would be appreciated... or maybe I should visit the FSDeveloper forum? Everybody over there seems to be far more knowledgeable about this stuff than me.

[gavinc]

And a little splash (or two) did indeed help me with this conversion. I have all the animations working properly except for the prop's transition from slow to blurred. Nothing I've done has fixed that. I noticed in Paul's FSX-native Northrop BT-1 the prop_blurred part has a "custom" visibility entry: custom_vis_PROP_MAX_RPM_PCT_1_01
I suspect that has something to do with the slow prop disappearing after the engine throttles up but I am clueless as to how to duplicate that. Also, now that I have all parts of the exterior model working OK I've noticed that the basic VC of Paul's original plane is gone. I've almost concluded that except for the learning curve this conversion hasn't been worth the man hours just to see autogen scenery through the prop arc. Any suggestions for restoring or aliasing the VC would be appreciated... or maybe I should visit the FSDeveloper forum? Everybody over there seems to be far more knowledgeable about this stuff than me.

The prop visibility is strictly based on whether you have the visibility conditions defined correctly. Drop me a PM and you can send me a copy of your conversion, then I can see what is wrong.

Regarding the VC, in FSX the VC is a separate model.
Follow Tom's instructions here http://www.calclassic.com/convert_tutorial/part7.html
and you can extract the VC from the FS9 model.

Don't give up now - you are nearly there.

Gavin

[TARPSBird]

Gavin, I sent you a PM.
The VC import using Tom's tutorial was very easy, I don't know why I thought it was going to be difficult. In addition to the troublesome prop transition, the only glitch I have now is this black rectangle in the VC. This is apparently the surface that the panel.bmp goes on but I can't figure out how to make it transparent. If I remove the part from the VC mdl I lose the panel.

[Brian_Gladden]

Gavin, I sent you a PM.
The VC import using Tom's tutorial was very easy, I don't know why I thought it was going to be difficult. In addition to the troublesome prop transition, the only glitch I have now is this black rectangle in the VC. This is apparently the surface that the panel.bmp goes on but I can't figure out how to make it transparent. If I remove the part from the VC mdl I lose the panel.

Open the vc model. click on the material editor. Hit the checkbox for highlight selecter and find the texture for the vc. Up top is a drop down (usually says Add night texture) click it and scroll to the "Set Default transparent" and click apply. That will fix the VC rectangle issue.

[TARPSBird]

Brian, thanks again, that fixed the black rectangle. My reading comprehension needs improvement, I see that was covered in Tom's tutorial.

[Jafo]

Brian, thanks again, that fixed the black rectangle. My reading comprehension needs improvement, I see that was covered in Tom's tutorial.

You overdid the "mulled by alcohol" bit...

[TARPSBird]

You overdid the "mulled by alcohol" bit...

I was worried that the black rectangle was alcohol-related!

[TARPSBird]

Prop fixed. VC fixed, all animations working... conversion completed. Thanks to all of you who commented and helped me during my conversion project. I've learned a lot about what you can do with ModelConverterX and what I thought was above my knowledge level was actually possible.

[srgalahad]

Pop the cork and pour a glass of bubbly!

Isn't it nice when a plan comes together?

[TARPSBird]

Pop the cork and pour a glass of bubbly!
Isn't it nice when a plan comes together?

I do feel pretty good about finishing the project, and not giving up even though it took me almost three weeks.
Now after my "learning curve" I could convert the plane to FSX almost as fast as Gavin did (see post #5).

[Pierre_NC]

Open the vc model. click on the material editor. Hit the checkbox for highlight selecter and find the texture for the vc. Up top is a drop down (usually says Add night texture) click it and scroll to the "Set Default transparent" and click apply. That will fix the VC rectangle issue.

Hey Brian

Thank you so much for answering me.

I cannot get the ModelConverterX version 1.4.0.0 at the moment, Google says the site is unaccessible but I'm gonna give it a try when it is.

Thank you again for your kind help.

Pierre_NC.