Glass (transparent materials)

[cantwelljm]

Hi
I have created a building in 3ds Max. When I import it into vizard the glass in the windows disappears. If a material is transparent or semi-transparent does vizard then treat it as invisable?? Is there any way of showing convincing looking glass in vizard??

[tobin]

Material opacity should come through in the 3DS format but I'll have to verify that. It certainly does in other formats.

A good technique, though, to give the impression of glass it to use a texture that has an alpha transparency layer. For the bitmap, add some scratches or a little dirt.

Finally, if you're window glass is a separate object, say "pane", then you can call worldObject.alpha(0.5, "pane") and it'll search through and set any sub-objects named "pane" to be 50% transparent.