This document describes Prepar3D® materials in detail, providing many visual examples. The sample settings can be used to great effect when creating new aircraft or other scenery objects using 3ds Max.
The Material Editor
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The base material properties
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The base texture properties
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The fresnel ramp
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The specular map
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Bloom and ambient light scale
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Frame buffer blending, shadows and force texture address clamp
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Material Functionality: Z-Bias Level
In order to improve layering materials on the ground for airport ground polygons, Prepar3D has implemented a Z-Bias level material setting.
This functionality only works with "No Z Write" checked on the material. Using values between 0 and -50, you can set and order the layering of the ground polygon textures above the default airport aprons, taxiways and runways. The more negative the Z-bias, the later in the process it will draw. For example, the runway ground polygon could be -1, the white runway markings could be -2, the yellow runway markings could be -3, etc.
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A: Selected Material: Taxiway marks B: Z-Bias Level = -10 |
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C: No Z write and No Shadow |