Building RAE Bedford for FSX

[TSR2]

Bugger!

Thanks Dave, but hold off. I'll work this one out myself (at least until I have to give up)

[DaveB]

I've put it HERE Ben mdl file is included too

It'll come mate I'm sure. There's something titchy you've overlooked and the plot has gone wrong. How many times I've done the same!

ATB
Dave

[TSR2]

Hi Dave,

When I import the model into MCX and go to the materials editor, resize all to power of 2, then save as DDS. Are you doing the same?

materialseditor01.PNG

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[DaveB]

Hello Mate..

Sri.. had a wait at the vets

No.. I didn't resize the textures although I know they should be of equal size as you've shown. Mine turned out as 'squares' anyway without intervention.. this is all it needs I think MCX doesn't give a texture warning for it

ATB
Dave

[GHD]

They don't need to be square, each side needs to be a power of 2, so 1024x1024 works as does 512x1024. 500x500 will not work.

[TSR2]

Cheers George. That's good to know as one of the brick textures looks odd when its "squared"

Dave, Your model works perfectly. I haven't had a chance to do any meaningful experimentation today, but I will do over the coming weeks... Monday is looking good

[TSR2]

Hi chaps,

back again

I'm still doing something stupid with MCX I think, but want to rule out something not working properly on my PC. In file No.1 we have the MDL file and textures post MCX. In file No.2 we have a hanger and textures as exported from sketchup. Needless to say, on my system after adding the post MCX textures to the texture folder and adding the mdl file to the instant scenery bgl library it doesn't show up. Two thoughts, 1, I'm still doing something stupid in MCX. 2. ISv2 isn't working properly. I'd appreciate it if you could test the MDL file as exported, and then second try processing the Sketchup Export.

No1-HangerMDL.zip

Output from MCX

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No2-hangerDAE.zip

Export from SketchUp

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[EDIT] Something I have noticed is that I get "15:07 XtoMDL Information CRASHTREE no granularity specified" in the log in MCX when I export the MDL. Could this be causing a problem?

Cheers,

Ben.

[GHD]

The model seems to be ok Ben.

Which airfield are you working on?

I'll try the conversion next.

The DAE conversion also worked. Did you convert the textures to dds with a power of two?

The crashtree warning can be ignored.

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16:02	DAEReader	Information	Starting reading of file Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01.dae
16:02	DAEReader	Information	Finished reading objects
16:02	AllObjectReader	Information	Cleaning object: mainhanger01
16:02	AllObjectReader	Information	Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
16:02	AllObjectReader	Information	Cleanup: Did remove triangle with zero area
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Starting generating OpenGL arrays...
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Finished generating OpenGL arrays
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger1.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1a.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger1a.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger3.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger3.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger1.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1a.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger1a.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger3.PNG
16:02	ObjectRenderer	Warning		The size of mainhanger01\hanger3.PNG is not a power of 2, this is required by FS
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1.dds
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1a.dds
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger3.dds
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1.dds
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger1a.dds
16:04	ObjectRenderer	Information	Loaded texture: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\hanger3.dds
16:04	MDLXWriter	Information	Starting writing of file Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\mainhanger01.MDL
16:04	XWriter	Information	Starting writing of file Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\_MCX_temp.x
16:04	XWriter	Information	Finished writing of file Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\_MCX_temp.x
16:04	XtoMDL	Information	Found output file: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\mainhanger01.mdl
16:04	XtoMDL	Information	OutputFile: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\mainhanger01.mdl
16:04	XtoMDL	Information	Output file after modification: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\mainhanger01.mdl
16:04	XtoMDL	Information	Creating output MDL file: Q:\Bens Models\mainhanger01\mainhanger01.mdl
16:04	XtoMDL	Information	CRASHTREE nocrash specified, not generating crashtree

BTW. The model size after converting the DAE is 4KB, yours from the zip is 7KB.

[DaveG]

Just taken the MDL & added it to one of my existing BGL libraries and IS sees it and places it OK.

I can only think it's not been added to an active library.

[TSR2]

Thanks Chaps.

Its very strange. When i open IS its all fine, i can select the BGL (it has other objects in it too) but nothing displays. The scenery area has other objects that work, so the folders for textures and scenery are definitely active.

George, its Thurleigh. The models are just my playing about to make sure the export from Sketchup to MCX to FSX works ( and for me to have a play in sketchup, its a bit of learning)