I am working on implementing the FS2004 Unlimited Export tweaks into ModelConverterX. After I had the tweaks working for the external model, I was looking for some information on how to use different LOD in the internal model, since until now ModelConverterX only allowed exporting one LOD for the internal model.

So I used an AI chat bot to get some more information on how developers for FS2004 typically export their internal models, especially when they are using the Unlimited Export tweaks. Was the result of the AI chat bot helpful? Not really, it told me that I could use ModelConverterX to export a FS2004 internal model with the Unlimited Export tweaks. It even showed me a plan with various steps and settings to check and a CFG file where I could configure the different LODs for the internal model. It all looked quite convincing. But…..

1. Since I am still implementing this feature, all of the ModelConverterX functionality that it talked about is non-existent and all options where made up as well. I only mentioned the Unlimited Export function in a blog post a week ago when I implemented the 4 mm weld limit workaround. So it is interesting how quickly the chat bot try to combine that information into this answer.
2. The CGF files it showed for the LOD looked a bit like the model.cfg files that we can use in FS, but for FS2004 the internal and external model are in the same MDL file. So specifying your LOD in such a file was also made up (probably inspired by another game or engine that offers this).

Another nice example of an AI chat bot hallucinating and not really helping me to solve my question. In the end I found a few threads on FSDeveloper that contained much more useful information what the functionality I wanted to implement. So it turns out that fellow FS developers are a more trustworthy source of information.

By the way, I am making good progress with implementing the Unlimited Export function, so I hope to be able to push it into the development release soon.