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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<PropertyList>
+	<name>Effects/model-transparent</name>
+	<!-- 	<inherits-from>Effects/shadow</inherits-from> -->
+	<parameters>
+		<texture n ="0">
+			<type>white</type>
+		</texture>
+		<vertex-program-two-side type="bool">false</vertex-program-two-side>
+		<material>
+			<color-mode-uniform>1</color-mode-uniform>
+			<!-- DIFFUSE -->
+		</material>
+		<!-- 		BEGIN fog include -->
+		<visibility>
+			<use>/environment/ground-visibility-m</use>
+		</visibility>
+		<avisibility>
+			<use>/environment/visibility-m</use>
+		</avisibility>
+		<lthickness>
+			<use>/environment/ground-haze-thickness-m</use>
+		</lthickness>
+		<scattering>
+			<use>/rendering/scene/scattering</use>
+		</scattering>
+		<terminator>
+			<use>/environment/terminator-relative-position-m</use>
+		</terminator>
+		<fogtype>
+			<use>/sim/rendering/shaders/skydome</use>
+		</fogtype>
+		<!-- 		END fog include -->
+	</parameters>
+	<technique n="11">
+		<pass>
+			<lighting>true</lighting>
+			<depth>
+				<write-mask type="bool">false</write-mask>
+			</depth>
+			<material>
+				<active>
+					<use>material/active</use>
+				</active>
+				<ambient>
+					<use>material/ambient</use>
+				</ambient>
+				<diffuse>
+					<use>material/diffuse</use>
+				</diffuse>
+				<specular>
+					<use>material/specular</use>
+				</specular>
+				<emissive>
+					<use>material/emissive</use>
+				</emissive>
+				<shininess>
+					<use>material/shininess</use>
+				</shininess>
+				<color-mode>
+					<use>material/color-mode</use>
+				</color-mode>
+			</material>
+			<blend>
+				<active>
+					<use>blend/active</use>
+				</active>
+				<source>
+					<use>blend/source</use>
+				</source>
+				<destination>
+					<use>blend/destination</use>
+				</destination>
+			</blend>
+			<shade-model>
+				<use>shade-model</use>
+			</shade-model>
+			<cull-face>
+				<use>cull-face</use>
+			</cull-face>
+				<render-bin>
+					<bin-number>111</bin-number>
+					<bin-name>DepthSortedBin</bin-name>
+				</render-bin>
+			<texture-unit>
+				<active>
+					<use>texture[0]/active</use>
+				</active>
+				<unit>0</unit>
+				<image>
+					<use>texture[0]/image</use>
+				</image>
+				<filter>
+					<use>texture[0]/filter</use>
+				</filter>
+				<wrap-s>
+					<use>texture[0]/wrap-s</use>
+				</wrap-s>
+				<wrap-t>
+					<use>texture[0]/wrap-t</use>
+				</wrap-t>
+				<!--
+          <internal-format>
+            <use>texture[0]/internal-format</use>
+          </internal-format>
+          -->
+				<environment>
+					<mode>modulate</mode>
+				</environment>
+			</texture-unit>
+			<!-- A two-sided lighting model is set by default near the root
+           of the scene graph. Perhaps that ought to be set in this
+           effect?
+        -->
+		</pass>
+	</technique>
+</PropertyList>