Porthole Material Problem in Blender

[MSFS 2024] Questions & Community Discussions Aircraft
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Hello everyone!

I’m a beginner for MSFS and having issues setting up the porthole material (parallax window) in Blender for MSFS2024. I believe I prepared as mentioned in the SDK but it does not look good, I can’t see the interior texture (emissive).

I made a bigger version of the window to see better in-game. Things I tried:

  • Made sure its vertex normals are pointing horizontally.
  • Checked without Albedo, ORM or normal map to see if one of them causing the issue.
  • Everytime I try something I click “Clean ALL in project” and “Build ALL in project” ingame devmode.
  • I use Blender 5.1.1 but also checked with 4.5.11 LTS, same issue occurs.

Any help is appreciated. I shared my textures below.

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image1920×1080 259 KB

From below angles, even normal maps doesn’t show, it just looks like a fully transparent material.

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image1920×1080 374 KB

image
image1916×1011 365 KB

Window4b_ORM
Window4b_ORM512×512 95.5 KB

window4_normal
window4_normal512×512 31 KB

Window4_Emissive
Window4_Emissive512×512 46.5 KB

Window4_Albedo
Window4_Albedo512×512 19.8 KB

Name of the material in Blender is super confusing by the way, there is a “Parallax Window” and “Porthole” materials but Porthole is explained under Parallax Window in the SDK page !?

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Hi @fiIibis ,

Did you set the emissive value in your porthole material ?
I was able to make it work in blender 4.5 LTS

Regarding the Parallax Window title, it’s because the material is using the parallax shader.
I’ll see if we can update this with something less confusing.

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Hi @Boris , emissive values look like they’re at default. Which parameter should I adjust, and what should it be set to? Or did you mean something different?

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image261×345 37.2 KB

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My bad, I was refering to the “Emissive Color” (I put mine in white)
Any chance you could provide us with the porthole .blender with textures ? I will investigate.

See 3) Provide Private Content