SceneryDesign.org I’m updating the Assimp library that ModelConverterX uses to a recent version and in the process I am also trying to read skin and bones animations from other formats using this new version. I don’t think I have it all right yet, but this video was too funny not to share with you. It directly […]
Best wishes!
Cough, cough, man this blog is dusty. I haven’t written here for much too long. I would like to wish all the users of my tools the best wishes for the holiday season and for 2020! I am working on a new update for ModelConverterX that adds support for additional formats. The screenshot below shows […]
Seasonal textures in MCX
At the moment the Ground Polygon Wizard in MCX only supports seasonal textures when you export using the FS2002 style code. But inspired by this thread on FSDeveloper I have started now to add support for seasonal textures to P3D v4 MDL files as well. I have some success already with using visibility conditions to […]
Editing animations and transformations
The latest development release of ModelConverterX adds new functionalities to the hierarchy editor. With them you can edit animations and transformations in your model and add new animations and transformations as well. In this video tutorial I demonstrate how it works: I hope this new functionality makes it easier to tweak your models. If you […]
Condition variable options
Many scenery and aircraft objects contain some conditional code. For example a bit of the object that is only shown when certain conditions are met. To be able to process such conditions on import of pre-FSX objects MCX needs to know what the value of the variables in these conditions is. So when such conditions […]
Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials
I know I haven’t posted on this blog for a while, but it’s time for an announcement that needs to be here on this blog as well. The development release of ModelConverterX does include support for the new Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials. This means that MCX can now: Read the material settings from a P3D […]
CreateXMLLibObj changes
In the next development release of scenProc there is a change to the CreateXMLLibObj step, it has some extra attributes. This means that you will have to update your scripts to work in the latest version. Before the step had the following attributes: filter guid heading attribute heading offset altitude optional options In the new […]
Material conversions
Lately I have been doing a lot of experimentation with converting objects between FS, AeroFly and X-Plane. Converting objects between the different simulators is possible, but of course there are differences. For example the way materials work is slightly different in each simulator. I have now added an extra material conversion feature to the material […]
AeroFly FS2 support in ModelConverterX
I have added two new exporters in ModelConverterX, with these you can export objects to the TGI format for AeroFly or export scenery to the TSC format of AeroFly. If you save your object in the TGI format, you need to use the AeroFly Content Converter to put it into the sim. ModelConverterX will save […]
X-Plane DSF support
I have just released an update of ModelConverterX that adds initial DSF support for X-Plane. You can now read and write DSF files. If you read an X-Plane DSF file the models referenced from it and the placement of those models will be imported. If you write an X-Plane DSF file the file save dialog […]