SceneryDesign.org Yesterday I gave a presentation about scenProc for the FSDevConf. If you were not able to watch the session live, you can still view it on YouTube, you will find the presentation here. Compared to some other scenProc presentations I have recorded before, I spend more time on explaining how to examine the GIS data […]
FSDevConf schedule
The schedule for the FSDevConf has been announced. So have a look and put the sessions in your agenda that you would like to attend! As you can see I will also be giving a few presentations. You can expect sessions from me about the following topics: How to convert a SketchUp object to Flight […]
FSDevConf is approaching…
Just a quick note to let you all know that the online FS Developer Conference (FSDevConf) that we are organising is approaching quickly now. It is actually scheduled for next weekend. So that means that the coming week I won’t have much time to update my tools, so the reported issues will have to wait […]
Tree detection – part 5
It’s been a while since I was working on the autogen vegetation for Nantucket. It was actually before my summer holiday. Afterwards I thought I would quickly fix some of the reported bugs and then return to this interesting issue. But as always I got carried away by adding some new features to ModelConverterX and […]
Blender
For a long time 3D objects for Flight Simulator could only be developed with a couple of tools. For example FSDS or GMax with the right gamepack. But over the last few years there is a trend to use more and more tools. For example SketchUp is also popular now to make scenery objects. Recently […]
scenProc XML objects optional attributes
The scenProc processing step to create XML objects had a last argument that when provided would add the NoAutogenSuppression tag to the create XML object. In the next development release the behaviour of this last argument has been changed a bit. From now on it matters what you enter. That’s because you can now specify […]
Grrrr, stupid MakeMDL error!
I think every designer exporting objects to FS2004 has seen the error message on the right at least once. It happens when you export a small object to a FS2004 MDL file with MakeMDL. The reason is that somewhere inside MakeMDL, when calculating the octtree for the crash detection, some assertion is triggered. Of course […]
Scenery Objects Editor
In the next development release of ModelConverterX you will find some changes to the “List objects” form. The first change is that this form is now called the “Scenery Objects Editor”. The icon in the toolbar has not changed by the way. As the new name already indicates you can now do some editing as […]
Object report and image video tutorial
Here is the video tutorial about the improved object report and object image functionality of ModelConverterX that I promised earlier this week.
Scenery (tool) designer
As many of you probably know I am a member of the Netherlands 2000 Scenery team for almost 15 years already. Or actually I should say I was. Because I have decided to stop working as a part of the team. This decision has nothing to do with the team, they still make a great […]