SceneryDesign.org 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 […]
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.
New GUI for object images and reports
In the next development release two new graphical user interfaces will be added. Both for the object report function and for the object image function there is a GUI now. The object report function can be used to create a HTML file with information about the loaded object or library. It includes a thumbnail image […]