SceneryDesign.org Last week I made two changes to the hierarchy editor: You can now drag nodes in the hierarchy editor, so that you can give them another parent node. This can be used to animate attachpoints. You can specify a NoCrash option per modelpart now, this way certain parts can be excluded from the crash box […]
Prepar3D v4 visibility conditions for scenery?
This evening I have been testing Prepar3D v4 a bit more and I have especially looked at using visibility conditions in scenery MDL files. Before these were not supported at all for MDL files placed through BGL. We had to use SimObject for them, as tools like SODE do. But with Prepar3D v4 things have […]
Prepar3D v4 MDL support
In my previous post about Prepar3D v4 support of my tools I mentioned that the MDL format didn’t seem to contain many changes. On further investigation it turned out that there are a number of changes and new sections in the MDL format. These are related to the following new functionalities: Support for a second […]
Prepar3D v4 support
I have just released a new build of my tools that supports Prepar3D v4 as well. Below it is listed what this means for the different tools. ModelConverterX As far as I know now the MDL and BGL format in Prepar3D v4 are the same as in Prepar3D v2, so there is no new file […]
Two new simulators
I the last week one new simulator was released and another one was officially announced. In this blog post I want to discuss what the impact on my various tools will be. The new simulator that was released is Flight Sim World from Dovetail. After installing the early access version I have come to the […]
Scene Builder Wizard
In the latest development release you will find a new wizard, the Scene Builder Wizard. With this feature you can build one scene (object) from a set of FS library objects and their placement. With this information ModelConverterX will generate a combined scene that contains all these objects at the right positions. This might be […]
Reverse earth curve correction
The latest ModelConverterX development release contains a new feature that you can also do a reverse earth curve correction. In the previous versions you could already correct your model for the FSX curved earth, but with this new feature you can also undo such a correction again. Besides that the Coordinate Converter tool can now […]
scenProc feature roadmap
The end of 2016 is fast approaching, so it’s the time of the year to look back a bit on the last year and look ahead a bit to 2017 as well. For scenProc the last year has been very exiting, with a lot of ideas I had in my head coming to life. But […]
iBlueYonder Nantucket released
A few years ago when I started to experiment with vegetation detection from imagery in scenProc I was looking for a test area with good imagery. I ended up picking the island of Nantucket, since it is a nicely sized island and for the US there is a lot of free source data to work […]
Support for more formats
Over the last year I have been putting most of my focus on new scenProc features, so ModelConverterX did receive less updates than usual. But now that the end of the year is approaching I do have some new features for ModelConverterX for you as well. Let’s say this is my Christmas gift to all […]