SceneryDesign.org 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. […]
MSFS texture distortion
The latest development release of ModelConverterX contains some new functionality that help you to inspect if your model is likely to have texture distortion issues in MSFS and also allows you to minimize this effect by updating your model. The video tutorial below explains all these functions. I would also like to mention that the […]
Export MSFS scenery package
With the recent changes for scenProc to export to MSFS as well, I have added writing a scenery to a MSFS package to the exporter capabilities. This means that ModelConverterX now also has the same export capability. So if you select “Export scenery” you will be able to export to a MSFS scenery package. The […]
Exporting to MSFS
The latest development release of scenProc does adds initial support for MSFS. Since the release of MSFS I have been waiting to update scenProc as it was not clear to me what purpose the tool would still have. For example the new autogen format is still largely unsupported by the SDK tools, so making autogen […]
Texture related changes
The latest development release contains two texture related changes. Size multiple of four The first is that MCX now also supports resizing textures so that their size is a multiple of four. This is the requirement that MSFS has for the textures. FSX and Prepar3D have the more strict requirement that the size should be […]
ModelConverterX 1.5 stable release
The new stable release of ModelConverterX is out. Version 1.5 replaces version 1.4 as the stable release. Compared to version 1.4 many changes and bug fixes have been made. Some of the highlights of these changes are: Many performance improvements resulting in less memory usage and quicker importing and exporting times. Support for MSFS has […]
Vertex colors
One of the new features of MSFS compared to FSX and P3D is that you can specify vertex colors in your model as well. This means that just like a position or a normal, each vertex of the model can have its own color as well. This can be a more efficient way to set […]
MSFS materials
Since last week ModelConverterX supports reading and writing of glTF files for MSFS. But this version did not yet support all the material attributes that MSFS has. There are 15 different material types that can be used in MSFS and each of them have a different set of attributes. The latest development release of ModelConverterX […]
glTF support for ModelConverterX
I am happy to announce that from today the development release of ModelConverterX supports the glTF format as used by the new MSFS. With this addition I have also changed the version number of the development release to 1.5. You can now read glTF files and the MSFS BGL files that contain the object models […]
FS2020 support
With FS2020 being available I would like to let you know that I have started on adding support for the glTF models in ModelConverterX already. But it’s not yet finished or fully tested as my current machine doesn’t meet the FS2020 specs. Once I’m back from vacation I’ll continue on this feature. By that time […]