SceneryDesign.org The latest development release of ModelConverterX adds new functionalities to the hierarchy editor. With them you can edit animations and transformations in your model and add new animations and transformations as well. In this video tutorial I demonstrate how it works: I hope this new functionality makes it easier to tweak your models. If you […]
Condition variable options
Many scenery and aircraft objects contain some conditional code. For example a bit of the object that is only shown when certain conditions are met. To be able to process such conditions on import of pre-FSX objects MCX needs to know what the value of the variables in these conditions is. So when such conditions […]
Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials
I know I haven’t posted on this blog for a while, but it’s time for an announcement that needs to be here on this blog as well. The development release of ModelConverterX does include support for the new Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials. This means that MCX can now: Read the material settings from a P3D […]
Material conversions
Lately I have been doing a lot of experimentation with converting objects between FS, AeroFly and X-Plane. Converting objects between the different simulators is possible, but of course there are differences. For example the way materials work is slightly different in each simulator. I have now added an extra material conversion feature to the material […]
AeroFly FS2 support in ModelConverterX
I have added two new exporters in ModelConverterX, with these you can export objects to the TGI format for AeroFly or export scenery to the TSC format of AeroFly. If you save your object in the TGI format, you need to use the AeroFly Content Converter to put it into the sim. ModelConverterX will save […]
X-Plane DSF support
I have just released an update of ModelConverterX that adds initial DSF support for X-Plane. You can now read and write DSF files. If you read an X-Plane DSF file the models referenced from it and the placement of those models will be imported. If you write an X-Plane DSF file the file save dialog […]
Remember form states
For scenProc I already implemented a function a while ago that it would remember the position and size of the different forms when using the application. For ModelConverterX such a feature was on the wishlist for quite a while already as well. Today I finally implemented it and compared to the way I did it […]
ModelDef viewer improvements
I have made two improvements to the ModelDef viewer in ModelConverterX lately. The first one is that you can now search in the ModelDef file. At the top you find a toolbar with a text box for the search string and a previous and next button to search backwards or forward for the entered search […]
Which Visual C++ runtime files does XtoMDL use?
A problem often reported for ModelConverterX is that XtoMDL throws some kind of error when trying to compile. These are often the result of missing dependencies on the system of the end user. For example DirectX 9.0c not being installed. But XtoMDL (and its DLL files) also depend on the Visual C++ runtime files. Unfortunately […]
Dynamic lighting
I have finished a new feature for ModelConverterX, so just in time as a big Christmas present to all ModelConverterX users. Since my summer vacation in July I had an idea how I wanted to support the new dynamic lighting feature of Prepar3D v4 and now I have finally implemented it. This means that you […]