In the latest development release of ModelConverterX I have made a number of changes so that MSFS livery packages can now also be read correctly and show the textures as they should. Often these packages depend on their base package for some of the texture or part of the model. In the texture.cfg or model.cfg […]

ModelConverterX is able to export MSFS scenery packages for quite a while already. To do this a MSFS dev project is written and then compiled with the fspackagetool. But when I implemented this feature, it never occurred to me that the reverse would be useful as well. Until a few weeks ago when I tried […]

In the latest development release of ModelConverterX I have fixed a bug with the export of the metallic, roughness and AO texture (the comp texture) to MSFS models. That there are bugs in my tools now and then is something I am used to (bug free software is hard to find). But for this bug […]

In MSFS 2024 the level of detail (LOD) system has been changed. As specified in the SDK, based on the number of vertices in the level of detail representation there is a minimum minimum size value that is allowed in MSFS 2024. This means that objects with a certain amount of vertices will disappear at […]

After importing an object ModelConverterX does optimise the scenegraph, the structure of all the nodes in the object, as you can see in the hierarchy editor. During this process the node names that ModelConverterX can read from certain file formats were often lost. After multiple requests from users that they would like to keep those […]

Until now ModelConverterX could not read MSFS 2024 library BGL files, you would get an error that the objects inside were not recognised. This is because MSFS 2024 does store your glTF models differently in the BGL file than MSFS 2020 did. You might have noticed that the BGL files are also smaller for MSFS […]

The latest development release of ModelConverterX includes support for MSFS 2024 materials. Based on the information in the SDK (schema’s, Blender scripts, …) I have tried to implement all new material options and also the schema’s that have changed since MSFS 2020. The information in the schema’s and SDK did not always align, so I […]

The latest development release of ModelConverterX adds a new drawcall optimization option for MSFS. It is now also possible to copy the color of the material color to the vertex colors. That allows multiple parts with the different colors to be rendered in one drawcall, if the remainder of their material settings is the same. […]