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Side note: It should be possible to export to Wavefront OBJ directly from Plane Maker, but for whaveter reason it has never worked for me, creating invalid files. Since there's no reliable Blender addon capable of achieving this (i have tried, but it's a total hit&miss case, with a strong lean towards the latter, sadly), we're going to use another program as an intermediary step, to load the objects and export them to plain Wavefront OBJ file, readable directly by Blender. Importing the aircraft model You need to import the model you'll be painting into Blender first. The aircraft used in my example is the default Cessna 172 Skyhawk.Дў. You can follow the general workflow idea of this tutorial with a different set of tools (3ds Max/Maya in place of Blender, Photoshop instead of Krita etc), but i cannot guarantee you'll be able to achieve the same results, as it won't translate 1:1 in such case. в™І Blender 2.77 or newer ) в™і Krita 3.3.2 or newer () в™ґ XPTools () I'm also assuming you have some basic proficiency at using Blender and navigating through its UI.

в™± AC3D () with X-Plane OBJ import/export plugin ()

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Software we're going to be using This tutorial assumes you are using a Windows machine and have the following programs set up: This is basically what sparked the idea of writing up this tutorial, which will focus on painting the livery in Blender.ДЎ. Having to paint directly on the image in a graphics editing program (often without a UV map reference layer), saving the texture and reloading the model in Plane Maker every once in a while is not an approach i'd be able to put up with myself, especially knowing that there are much better ways to do it. The gaps in the glass are totally transparent, while the glass shards are partially transparent and the frame is fully opaque.X-Plane 11 livery creation with Blender Foreword After having done a bit of research on a typical livery creation process for X-Plane, i had noticed that virtually none of tutorials I stumbled upon incorporates actual 3D modelling software into the worflow to help visualise the edits being made to the texture. The end result, peering through a broken window into a building. You can click the RGB/A button as shown to toggle which channels of the image you are previewing. An imported texture with RGB channels and an Alpha Channel. This will have the effect that your material can have areas of varying transparency. The alpha channel values are mapped to the transparency levels with white being fully opaque, and black being fully transparent. When using a texture assigned for the Albedo parameter, you can control the transparency of the material by ensuring your albedo texture image has an alpha channel. A range of transparency values from 0 to 1, using the Transparent mode suitable for realistic transparent objects

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As mentioned above, picking the correct transparency mode is important because it determines whether or not you will still see reflections and specular highlights at full value, or whether they will be faded out according to the transparency values too. This only has an effect if the Rendering Mode for the material is set to one of the transparent mode, and not Opaque. The alpha value of the Albedo colour controls the transparency level for the material. Notice there are no shadows or lighting highlights. On the left is a texture map for a character model, and on the right is a wooden crate. Two examples of typical Albedo texture maps. ItвЂ™s important to note that the Albedo texture should not contain any lighting, since the lighting will be added to it based on the context in which the object is seen. This should represent the colors of the surface of the object. Specifying a single color for the Albedo value is sometimes useful, but it is far more common to assign a texture map for the Albedo parameter. The Albedo parameter controls the base color of the surface.

The Albedo Color parameter is highlighted. A Standard Shader material with default parameters and no values or textures assigned.

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