Real-time texture switching

[pine-nut]

How to switch the whole texture in real time?
For example, there are two kinds of external texture of an airplane model, one is normal and the other is icing, and it needs to be switched in real time, how can I do it?

[Clifton Crane]

Hi pine-nut,

There are a couple options. One option would be to use a material script to change the texture:

https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/modeling ... lScripting
https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/referenc ... ables.html

You could also use visibility scripts to turn a part on or off. For this to work, you would need to model the part twice with different materials and script them on/off separately:

https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/modeling ... ity%20Tags

Regards,
Clifton

[pine-nut]

Hi pine-nut,

There are a couple options. One option would be to use a material script to change the texture:

https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/modeling ... lScripting
https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/referenc ... ables.html

You could also use visibility scripts to turn a part on or off. For this to work, you would need to model the part twice with different materials and script them on/off separately:

https://prepar3d.com/SDKv6/sdk/modeling ... ity%20Tags

Regards,
Clifton

Thanks a lot!