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Polydompteur asked Boris_ commented

Bug in Porthole Parallax material?

Hi!

For our upcoming A330 project i tried to aquire the porthole window technique used at the Asobo 747. Checking the mesh I saw that the porthole shader is assigned there only to a single quad poly, still giving a nice impression of seeing into an actual 3d-ish passenger cabin.

I tried out with the default textures the Asobo B747 uses before I do my costum maps, as there is no documentation at all i could find in the SDK doc about how it works. But I managed to get very new of it, only having a last problem in the intersection between outer window surface and the fake interior opening to the passenger space. While there is a continous white circular frame simulated in the original Asobo asset, it is not displayed in my version, even using to original Asobo B747 textures for this. (Note that I am still on SDK 0.16 as I got exporting problems with higher numbers using MAX2020). I made some image to explain the issue better...

Thank you for your help!

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FlyingRaccoon avatar image FlyingRaccoon ♦♦ commented ·
Hello @Polydompteur

Can you show us how is your material configured please?

Regards,
Sylvain

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Hi Sylvain!

Thanks for your help. The problem was located in how RGB and Alpha were saved together...

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Polydompteur answered FlyingRaccoon converted comment to answer

Hi Sylvain!

Your help is very welcome. The Albedo map also contains the alpha information from the original, I just reused all the Asobo B747 assets I could find to make me "interactive" picture of this SDK "black box". I made an image that shows my material assignments...

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FlyingRaccoon answered bravoairspace commented
Hello @Polydompteur

It seems the colour of the part you mentioned is sampled on the outer perimeter of the window (the part you have set the colour to black on your albedo texture, and that is grey in ours).
I think there's an additional ring there.
Can you update the colour of that part of the texture and see if that solves your problem?

( @Nocturne FYI )

Regards,
Sylvain

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bravoairspace avatar image bravoairspace commented ·

Hi guys, so what am I doing wrong myself? I'm on blender, assuming 3ds max is easier to work on these aircrafts. But I copied the same porthole from the Asobo A320 onto my aircraft fuselage without changing anything and I get the opposite. I don't get any edge at all. As you can see on the images. Can you be so kind as to tell me what my error is? Thanks. Screenshot (970).png

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Michael2 answered Boris_ commented

I am also using Blender 3.1.2 with the Asobo exporter. I simply can't get the porthole material to work properly. I have tried to duplicate A320 windows using its textures (with the intent to substitute my own if I can get the windows to work in the first place). It looks great but only when viewed from one angle, that is looking towards the rear of the aircraft. As the view rotates forwards, the window image moves correctly but then disappears. There is either some setting in the material I am missing or the exporter doesn't work correctly. Since the SDK is very secretive about this material, there is really no way for me to know why it isn't working correctly. I have posted as well on the Asobo blender exporter GitHub page, but as far as I can tell, no one from Asobo is active there.

This is very frustrating as I am modelling an L1011 and really do not want to create the entire interior of a widebody airliner.

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Boris_ avatar image Boris_ ♦ commented ·

Hello @Michael2,

@Yasmine is active on github and, by the way, answered the first question you asked 4 days ago and is waiting for your gltf ;)

As for your question about the porthole material, can you make a new test using blender 3.3.3 LTS and the latest version 1.1.7 of the plugin ? Let me know if it's better

If you still have the issue, can you send us your gltf and the textures you use?

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Thanks,

Regards,
Boris

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Michael2 answered Boris_ commented

Boris, thanks for the reply; I appreciate it. (Embarrassing that I wasn't aware of the reply on GitHub.)

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Boris_ avatar image Boris_ ♦ commented ·

You're welcome,

Yes, sometimes I miss the github notification too ;)

Regards,
Boris

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