FSX Materials

Overview

This document describes Flight Simulator X 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 or gmax. The example shown is from the material editor in 3ds Max. The FSX Material in gmax is identical to the one in 3ds Max, however the interface is slightly different in gmax.

FSX Materials are referenced by the Using Modeling Tools document.

See Also

• SDK Overview

Table of Contents

• The FSX Material Editor as it appears in 3ds Max
• The base material properties
• The base textures in the FSX Material
• The fresnel ramp
• The specular map and its properties
• Bloom and ambient light scale
• Frame buffer blending and texture clamp

The FSX Material Editor

The base material properties

The base texture properties

The fresnel ramp

The specular map

Bloom and ambient light scale

Frame buffer blending, shadows and force texture address clamp