Xplane reflective windows help ??

[danielh]

Hello is there someone can tell me how to make Windows that are shiny reflective just like a mirror ???

I am try a long time to find it out but have not good luck to find the solution
If you know how let me please know....

Trying to make New terminals in xplane but would like create dark shiny glass that are just mirror reflective

Greetings Dan

[xrotors]

Originally Posted by danielh

Hello is there someone can tell me how to make Windows that are shiny reflective just like a mirror ???

I am try a long time to find it out but have not good luck to find the solution
If you know how let me please know....

Trying to make New terminals in xplane but would like create dark shiny glass that are just mirror reflective

Greetings Dan

Set a texture and apply a custom material to your mesh with all color values set to white and maximum shininess. Then flag the tickbox in object properties to use AC3D materials. You should then be able to get a mirror-like texture for your glasses.

[danielh]

it works thanks for the help :-)

[VMoradian]

Originally Posted by xrotors

Set a texture and apply a custom material to your mesh with all color values set to white and maximum shininess. Then flag the tickbox in object properties to use AC3D materials. You should then be able to get a mirror-like texture for your glasses.

Hello. I need to do the exact same thing but I didn't quite understand the instructions. Here's what I have so far. I have the x-plane .obj file already textured and I just need to make the windows surfaces shiny. X-plane will only accept ONE texture file per model. I couldn't find the "tickbox in object properties". I do have the correct x-plane plugins installed. If you could help me I would be very grateful. Thank you.

[Andy]

"X-Plane object properties" is the first/top menu item on the X-Plane main menu. Use-AC3D-materials is in the middle of the dialog (above "blending") that popups up when you select that menu item.

[VMoradian]

Originally Posted by Andy

"X-Plane object properties" is the first/top menu item on the X-Plane main menu. Use-AC3D-materials is in the middle of the dialog (above "blending") that popups up when you select that menu item.

That worked great. What I was doing wrong was that I was in object mode. I had to switch to surface mode and select the surfaces I wanted to change. So, thank you so much for your help. Cheers.

[domhenry]

The other way is to use V11 style normal files and set the alpha channel shininess very high....

[VMoradian]

Originally Posted by domhenry

The other way is to use V11 style normal files and set the alpha channel shininess very high....

I'm not an experienced scenery developer. Is there a tutorial on how to create normal files for x-plane? So far, I haven't been successful in finding one.

Thank you.

[domhenry]

This is a great source for new painters..... note the post on metalness and shininess.
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php...ters-workshop/