AS F8U Crusader (it's also back at AS) + alpha channel question . .
Have, again, rediscovered this wonderfully done model. Exterior shape is just 100% right. Works well - even better than the AS Phantom - in FSX. A real handful to trap though especially if you have been recently spoiled practicing with Dino's F-14!
Have been playing around with some mods but have been perplexed with trying to add some metallic shine to the burner nozzle using the normal route via adding an alpha channel with DXT.bmp. What seems to happen in FSX is that you end of making the bmp texture more or less transparent, rather than reflective. Have tried various values of white to black, but either there is no reflection or there are increasing decrease of transparency.
What am I missing? NB: none of the textures for this particular model seem to have been created with ANY alpha layers.
Thanks
expat
Have, again, rediscovered this wonderfully done model. Exterior shape is just 100% right. Works well - even better than the AS Phantom - in FSX. A real handful to trap though especially if you have been recently spoiled practicing with Dino's F-14!
Have been playing around with some mods but have been perplexed with trying to add some metallic shine to the burner nozzle using the normal route via adding an alpha channel with DXT.bmp. What seems to happen in FSX is that you end of making the bmp texture more or less transparent, rather than reflective. Have tried various values of white to black, but either there is no reflection or there are increasing decrease of transparency.
What am I missing? NB: none of the textures for this particular model seem to have been created with ANY alpha layers.
Thanks
expat
