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. […]
Command line conversion
ModelConverterX is primarily a tool with a graphical user interface, but did already have some command line arguments to load objects or apply batch conversions. These command arguments have now been modified to support easy conversion between formats from the command line as well. This can be useful if you want to integrate ModelConverterX somewhere […]
Error report file upload error
From within ModelConverterX and scenProc you can upload an error report directly to my bug tracker. There is an option to include the file that caused the crash as well. Recently I noticed that most users did not try to upload the file anymore, which makes debugging harder. Today I found out the problem was […]
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 […]
Material changes using the hierarchy editor
In the latest development release of ModelConverterX a new feature has been added to the hierarchy editor. You can now also modify the material of model parts in the hierarchy editor. When you click on the material name you get a list of all materials in the model and can select which one should be […]
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 […]
Interactive node selection
The last ModelConverterX development release adds a cool new feature. You can now select nodes of the object by clicking on them in the preview. The hierarchy editor will then directly jump to that node or the material editor will show the material used on that node. The video below illustrates this new feature.
Hierarchy editor drag node change
I have made a change to the hierarchy editor, when you drag and drop a node onto a new parent node, the location in the world of the object that you are dragging will no longer change. Before this change the object would suddenly move if the new parent has a different transformation applied to […]
Visibility conditions in the preview
The last development release adds a new feature that had been in my mind for a while already. I have added a way to control which visiblity conditions are shown in the preview. Until now all visibility conditions were rendered as if their condition was true. Now if you click on the Visibility Condition State […]
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 […]