[025] Adding Glass Textures - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 SDK Tutorials

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Adding glass textures to objects can give a realistic aesthetic look to models and it's fairly simple to do once you know how to set it up in Blender.
This tutorial covers a few ways of adding glass style textures to your models.

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@tehsideshow 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you've uploaded another video. They're the highlight of my life.

@Fireonutube 3 жыл бұрын

I have to congratulate with you, your tutorials are really very precious, they talk about topics rarely dealt with and in a direct way, about what the developer needs. Really great, i think that you deserve a lot more likes!

@twodogzz9291 3 жыл бұрын

Great instructions and very useful. I'll start to get serious with modelling using your tutorials. Thank you.

@brianbuckley6713 3 жыл бұрын

Great short tutorial Buddy. Many thanks.

@aalfouzan 2 жыл бұрын

Can't thank you enough... I'm about to finish an airport created from scratch only thanks to you! So, many many maaaaaaaaany thanks buddy.

@tradari 3 жыл бұрын

this is soo helpful i've spend a whole day doing glass changes just brill

@GamjaField 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed!

@christianhartlep8120 3 жыл бұрын

Quick and dirty, good explanation - much thanks for that! My question: It is possible to create a texture with an alpha channel defined as "MSFS glass" which renders the alpha mask (the window parts in my case) as glass only? Any ideas? My second thought is: If you have a buildings with lots of windows outside and inside you can see through, the polygon count gets much bigger. If i am using a occlusion, roughness and metallic map for the transparent window texture it works well at first sight - but in this manner there are some MSFS render issues with "glass behind glass". I want to avoid the high polygon count during modeling every single window frame to make the MSFS glass render mode working realistic. Is there a second possibility?

@cutlass6332 3 жыл бұрын

Have you done a guide on how you place your own 3d models in a specific location in the MSFS world. I'd love to add a local monument that's near my home but missing by default.

@a1b2c3d4j16 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, your tutorial serie is awesome!

@thibaultblf 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice, efficient tutorial. It would be awesome if you can do a tutorial on how to control the size, density and color of the grass. Sometime I want a beautiful green short cut grass but it's not always a success...

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think you can change the auto gen grass at the moment. Have to wait for the SDK to be updated I think

@UKPete 3 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, I got this working but didn't know what was what and so it was just luck, Thanks!.

@MrFiideell 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Will try to create a taxi light using this.

@EvilNando 2 жыл бұрын

hi just wondering if you will manage to upload that parallax video tutorial? Thank you for your content

@vipersnake94 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any way you can make a video to show how to get the glass to look like the Aerosoft CRJ cockpit glass? Im trying to create my own aircraft but the glass is the only thing I cant get to look like theirs does. Thanks! Ohh and also an idea for another video could be decals. Aerosoft uses them on the CRJ too, 2D object but makes it look 3D with shadows etc to save on vertices count

@Simulanderson 3 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot!

@Laka19474 3 жыл бұрын

Hey. Thanks for your video. Great work. Question, i created an airport with buildings of other addons. I see everything correct. But if i share my folder of my own airport with friends, they don't see the airport completely due to the fact that they don't have the other addons installed, were i took my buildings. Is there an easy chance to import these buildings and objects to my own airport folder with SDK. Thanks for an answer 💪

@gavinsaunders01 3 жыл бұрын

Any chance we could get a WorldScript tutorial? SDK docs have nothing on this currently. Really appreciate these vids, thank you.

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

Without docs its very difficult to figure out how to use it, so I'm as much in the dark as worldscript as everyone else

@vigomat 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, you helped me a lot

@JustAnOrdinarySimmer 3 жыл бұрын

So can you export models from blender/3ds max (I use 3ds) to the sim without restarting the sim every time?

@myphysicalworld3958 3 жыл бұрын

Best SDK videos yet to find! Have you had a chance to work on Parallax textures yet? Also, what is the best results for using emissives for this? I got some idea but had to do a lot of tweeking...just wondering about your technique, if you have one. Keep up the great work, buddy!

@cebrady 2 жыл бұрын

Did you ever figure out how to work in Parallax effects?

@myphysicalworld3958 2 жыл бұрын

@@cebrady I have dabbled, but not much. Haven't found a real need yet. Thought I'd use them more, but wasn't the case.

@cebrady 2 жыл бұрын

@@myphysicalworld3958 The main one I was thinking of was doing large amounts of windows in a building you don't want to fully model (apartments, secondary buildings to the airport, etc.), but I haven't tried yet either.

@myphysicalworld3958 2 жыл бұрын

@@cebrady right. It's a good alternative if one doesn't model building interiors.

@GamerTNGTY 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much! also how can i modify the model ingame after making changes in blender without having to restart the sim?

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

models are hot loaded when the scenery editor is running, so if you make a change to the gltf file then it will just auto load back in. However, if you make changes to the texture files then you need to re-build the project, close down the scenery editor and re-open it again to see any texture changes.

@delochent Ай бұрын

i know this is an old video, but could you create a video, how could we modify the glass cockpit windows, i am trying to figure out how to add scratches and fingerprint to existing planes but not sure how to

@Adam-bw6xt 2 жыл бұрын

Awsome video! Just one question, how can I do this with the msfs material params because I want to have a reflective surface(glass) with emission in the night. any ideas?

@Adam-bw6xt 2 жыл бұрын

no worries, I fixed it. I just realised that msfs material params resets the default texture parameters

@christianwolfgang7266 3 жыл бұрын

How would you make the glass more transparent? Certain color or what?

@pilotomaia 3 ай бұрын

Goodnight friend. Your video is very good, but time has passed, more than three years, and today I can't make transparent glass in my scenary. Can you help me ? Thanks hugs.

@streamline247 3 жыл бұрын

Wicked, you're a genius. 🤪

@mache82 3 жыл бұрын

how to make the texture a bit transparent? I can't do it, only a solid color can

@aldo_3d 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@TheRyanDeMuro 3 жыл бұрын

You are awesome! 🙏

@FelixSchildmann 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to achieve this in Model Converter X only?

@pilotomaia 3 ай бұрын

Show !!! Tks a lot.

@covbloke511 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work Villa Fan :-) How do collision materials work in MSFS. Can't get them to work. :-( Any ideas? Cheers from a Cov fan. Sadly.

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know how they work, the dev of Blender2MSFS is a bit puzzled by them too

@coastflyer 3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible for you to add a link to a zip of the project?

@aneltoro0894 3 жыл бұрын

thx man !

@stevenbeeckman3019 3 жыл бұрын

Does this only work for objects in Blender or also for faces of an object?

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

I think in theory it should work. Not sure how materials applied to faces translates into the gltf file

@johnhodgkiss9882 3 жыл бұрын

Great Video. But can you please do one on texturing techniques. Best practices for flight simulator UV Maps etc. Thank you

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm going to do a video on UV Mapping in Blender, but not on super complicated shapes, things like buildings, etc as that's what's most commonly required when making scenery.

@johnhodgkiss9882 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingTheston thank you that would be great. It had sometim s to figure out how much detail to add to a texture map without going over board. Is there away to repeat a texture like Bick?

@johnhodgkiss9882 3 жыл бұрын

May be an example of modeling a building from reference material?

@m0r94n 3 жыл бұрын

hel lo flying theston there are no need for apology. you are a good clean boy and many thanks for video

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

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@777FreakyD 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man... literally spent a couple of hours yesterday figuring this out. Jumped the gun

@axev133 3 жыл бұрын

Thanx for all the videos which helped me a lot in creating scenery. Question: I've used a 3d warehouse model of a Radio Tower to create a landmark for MSFS2020. I imported this model in Blender, then added lights (day/night cycle). All lights are working except the red anti-collision light in top. Any idea why this light doesn't work? Even when I copy a working red light and move it to the top it doesn't show anymore. Here's the model I've uploaded for MSFS2002 (under my alias AxeV). flightsim.to/file/3082/kpn-radio-tower-hilversum

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

Did you add the red light in blender? If so, the blender lights just shine onto a surface they are not visible in the sky. So you'll probably notice the top of your tower is receiving the red light colour and showing red. The flight sim FX are the way to create proper glowing lights I think, but this part of the SDK hasn't been exposed yet so you can't seem to use it to create proper warning lights. If you watch my video on lighting (i think like episode 5 maybe?) then I show a workaround where you can just have a white sphere and cast red light onto that sphere from all angles to fake a red beacon.

@axev133 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingTheston Yes I added the red light in Blender and now I probably understand why it can't be seen; there is no surface to reflect. I'll give your suggested workaround a try, and again many thanx for your contribution to support the community!

@axev133 3 жыл бұрын

I managed to create a working anti-collision light for which I've used your workaround. I didn't use point lights because that reflects too much on the textures below so I used spots which I pointed towards the ico sphere. flightsim.to/file/3082/kpn-radio-tower-hilversum

@FlyingTheston 3 жыл бұрын

@@axev133 Looks good! you may also find that your sphere on your model looks too small far away so it effectively disappears. For this you can just have different level of detail models and the lower level of detail just make the sphere proportionally larger so it still looks visible and decent at range.

@axev133 3 жыл бұрын

@@FlyingTheston ok, thanx (used 0.2). Will change that for the next update.