SceneryDesign.org Ever since the release of FSX SP2 enabling drawcall batching has been a popular method of increasing the performance of scenery. The basic idea behind drawcall batching is that the scenery engine will gather all polygons with the same material, even if they belong to different objects, and then render them in one go. This […]
My tools and Windows XP
As you have most likely heard by now Microsoft has stopped supporting Windows XP as operating system. I know there are still many users using my tools on Windows XP as well and the decision of Microsoft doesn’t mean of course that my tools will stop working on Windows XP. However given that official support […]
Full of new inspiration
I have returned from my vacation yesterday. As usual I don’t bring a computer on vacation, so I haven’t done anything on FSDeveloper or my tools in the last 3 weeks. But of course that doesn’t stop my brain from coming up with new ideas. Luckily I had brought a notebook (you know, a paper […]
Upcoming updates
The last weeks updates of my tools have been a bit slower than usual. On one hand that was because I have been busy with non-FS activities, but also because I have been experimenting a lot with creating autogen for Nantucket with scenProc. It’s useful to sometimes do some actual work with my own tools, […]
I need 6 seasons!
I guess you learned at school that there are 4 seasons in each year. But when you start making scenery for Flight Simulator you will see that FS actually has 5 seasons. Besides the usual seasons spring, summer, autumn and winter, FS also has a heavy winter season. This means winter with snow actually. So […]
Exporting FS2004 aircraft MDL files
One feature often requested is the ability to export FS2004 aircraft MDL files as well. I have now set a first step in the direction of this functionality. If you download the development release tomorrow you will see that you can export both FS2004 scenery and aircraft MDL files. But before you get too enthusiastic, […]
Prepar3D v2 MDL changes
When I released the first update for ModelConverterX that supports the new Prepar3D v2 MDL format, I had already found out two differences in the MDL format: The material definition has been extended with an additional attribute for the ZBias The indices of the triangles are now stored as int instead of short. This basically […]
I Prepar3D the tools
The new Prepar3D v2 was released a few days ago, so it was time for me to update my tools to be more aware of Prepar3D. For Prepar3D v1 it in general worked if you just set the FSX folders to the Prepar3D folders, but with version 2 there are more changes. Therefore Prepar3D v2 […]
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 […]
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 […]