Confusion about glass material opacity and alpha and HUD texture

[biller]

Hey all.

This problem seems very confusing.

I start to use a prototype to test the basic dimension of the add-on plane modes.

This floppybird

 

 

The problem contains two parts

1. What decide the opacity of the glass material ?

There are 3 configurable arguments in 3dsmax and photoshop.

 

a.In the material editor there are already 2 existing parameters for opacity. Which one of these two affect the opacity of the glass?

b. There is a opacity parameter for the alpha channel (arguments 4) in the photoshop. So we have 3 opacity parameters now. Which of these parameters decide the opacity of the final result?

c. The alpha channel of the photoshop uses a CMYK color space that only K channel is available in info window. The alpha black is 100% and alpha white is 0%. We can use brush tool to create areas that have different K value? So what does this K value mean?

 

When we look at the beginner guide's highlighted paragraphs and

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86205

EDM tool's instruction, it says "create a blue bit map with an alpha channel opacity to 20%", and what does this opacity refers to?

 

2. The second question is about the wunderluft demo mod's HUD.

According to the beginners guide, I disable the radar

and put the HUD's texture to the

DCS World/Mods/aircraft/Wunderluft/Textures/Avionics/Bazar/Textures/

but with this .tga file with 100% opacity of the alpha channel but nothing appears in the game's floppybird cockpit.

Before I disable the radar I can se red grids..

AvionicsCommon.rar

[SkateZilla]

Some of the "Community/Public" Guides are old and need to be updated again.

 

AFAIK, RGBA Format, Save as DXT5

 

The Alpha Layer of the DDS Controls the Opacity.

 

Edited October 11, 2016 by SkateZilla

[biller]

Some of the "Community/Public" Guides are old and need to be updated again.

 

AFAIK, RGBA Format, Save as DXT5

 

The Alpha Layer of the DDS Controls the Opacity.

 

 

merci

I'll try the DXT5..