Glass (transparent materials)
 

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??

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.