Wizard update

Just a small update on the conversion wizard functionality for ModelConverterX. Over the last days I have made some progress again. The following features are done now: Positioning, scaling and rotating the object on the map. So you can do the placement. Exporting to a BGL file, with the model and placement in it The […]

openVFR goes USA!

You might have heard about the openVFR scenery already for different European countries, like Germany or Netherlands. It’s a vector based terrain scenery using geo data from the OpenStreetMap project. The good news is that this project is now also going to cover the USA. On their blog the first screenshots have been released.

FSDeveloper connectivity – part 3

A few weeks ago we had trouble with the connectivity of the FSDeveloper server. This has now been fixed by a quick work around. But after discussing with the hosting company we came to the conclusion that a real fix would be to move FSDeveloper virtual server to another machine (a 64 bit one, instead […]

An interesting idea…

An idea on the ModelConverterX wishlist for quite some time already is to add an easy conversion wizard. This will be a wizard where you just select your object (for example a SketchUp made COLLADA file), tell which scenery folder to use and enter which location the object should get. After that the wizard will […]

Fixed camera views

I have added another small feature to ModelConverterX tonight. This is something I had in mind for some time already. You can now select a number of viewing directions for the preview. This allows you to fix the view to the front or left for example. In some case that makes it easier to monitor […]

Animation editor

A new editor has been added to ModelConverterX, the animation editor. At this moment the functionality of the editor is still limited, you can use it to remove animations from the object. You can select at which keyframe you want to fix the geometry and then that becomes the static state of the object. The […]

Nasty bug

With the recent changes I made to ModelConverterX, a nasty bug slipped into the code. This results in trouble reading MDL files, mainly FS2004 scenery MDL files. This nasty bug has been fixed now and the updated version is available from tomorrow as the development release. Sorry for the inconvenience.

A book

Last week I released my new tutorial about using SketchUp on the FSDeveloper Wiki. While I was writing on this tutorial it grew bigger and bigger. Initially I never planned to write a 75 page tutorial, but it seems there is quite a lot to write about making your own house. Since it almost looks […]