Making aircraft parts disappear with texture transparency?

[henrystreet]

Seems I read a post here at SOH somewhere about making parts of a aircraft disappear (like drop tanks) by making the texture completely transparent for the area that paints that part.

Did I dream this or is it possible/feasible?

Thanks

Henry

[hschuit]

In FS9 you could black out the alpha for the parts of the texture file you want to hide. It only works if the alpha is not used for gloss/shine effect. In FSX it does not work properly, the part becomes sort of transparent but also all other model parts behind it which looks weird.

[Jafo]

About the best you get in FSX is like Predator in the jungle ....more translucent than transparent...

[henrystreet]

Thanks for the info. Appreciate all the responses.