Updated default Fuselagereflect

[erik]

I've updated the Fuselagereflect which can be found in Aircraft/Generic/Effects considerably.
The old one was from 2010 and I think pre-ALS.

To be able to see the glossy effect the shininess value for the color of the affected model parts must be somewhere high, at least 100 and preferable 128: https://learnopengl.com/Lighting/Materials

There is a help section at the beginning of the file which I will post here for convenience:

Parameters:

• Boolean to enable or disable the reflection.
  Civilian aircraft are usually glossy but military aircraft are not.
  sim/model/civilian
  
  
• Floating point value to specify the reflection factor.
  The range is between -1.0 and 0.0
  sim/model/livery/shininess
  
  
• Floating point value to specify the Fresnel factor.
  The range is between 0.0 and 1.0
  sim/model/livery/fresnel

These parameters can all be defined within a livery configuration file:

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  <PropertyList>
    <sim>
      <model>
        <civilian type="bool">true</civilian>
        <livery>
          <name type="string">Factory Demonstrator</name>
         <texture>Liveries/factory.png</texture>
         <shininess type="float">-0.5</shininess>
         <fresnel type="float">0.7</fresnel>
        </livery>
      </model>
    </sim>
  </PropertyList>

Usage:
Add one of the following examples to your model configuration file.

• Minimal configuration
  

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    <effect>
    <name>Effects/normalmap-reflection</name>
    <inherits-from>Aircraft/Generic/Effects/Fuselagereflect</inherits-from>
    <object-name>fuselage</object-name>
    <object-name>wing</object-name>
  </effect>

  
  
• Adding a normal-map:
  

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    <effect>
    <name>Effects/normalmap-reflection</name>
    <inherits-from>Aircraft/Generic/Effects/Fuselagereflect</inherits-from>
    <object-name>fuselage</object-name>
    <object-name>wing</object-name>
    <parameters>
      <texture n="2">
        <image>Aircraft/AircraftName/Models/normalmap.png</image>
      </texture>
    </parameters>
  </effect>

Further reading:
https://wiki.flightgear.org/ALS_technical_notes

Erik