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gianp
28 Nov 2008, 05:19
Hi Arno,
this FSx object model (static aircraft) wont come in correctly.
Some triangles of the upper right wing root are missing.

It has been built by a fellow of VVT using the latest version of FSDS.
In case you are interested in this beautiful ultra-light airplane the zip file also includes the (real) builder home page.

Cheers
Gian Paolo (under a big snowstorm)
FelixFFDS
28 Nov 2008, 14:04
INtgerestingly, with the latest (2008-11-27) build, also with a model coming from FSDS, I have, not merely missing "faces" but whole parts missing, something that did NOT happen with previous builds. MCX build .055 is my "control"

.... and the part names still start with a number, not an alpha character.
gianp
28 Nov 2008, 14:45
Reinstalled and checked with 0.55 - Same triangles missing.

cheers
GP
arno
28 Nov 2008, 15:10
Hi,

I see your problem, I'll put it on the todo list. I think the polygon is not missing, but drawn facing the wrong side.
arno
28 Nov 2008, 15:13
Hi Felix,

INtgerestingly, with the latest (2008-11-27) build, also with a model coming from FSDS, I have, not merely missing "faces" but whole parts missing, something that did NOT happen with previous builds. MCX build .055 is my "control"

.... and the part names still start with a number, not an alpha character.

Any example of this trouble? That might help to find the problem. I am not aware of changes I made to the FSX MDL importer, but you never know :).

About the 3DS exporter, I am sure I changed that. Are you sure you are not using some old DLL files by accident as Gian also had a while ago?
arno
28 Nov 2008, 15:39
Hi Gian,

I found the bug, should be solved in tonight's build.
gianp
29 Nov 2008, 09:52
Last night version tested successfully.
cheers
arno
29 Nov 2008, 13:02
Hopefully the problems of Felix are also solved with this build :).
FelixFFDS
29 Nov 2008, 21:38
I confirm - parts once lost are now importing correctly.

The curious thing was that as I rechecked the 3DS model with 3D explopration, the parts were there. I identified the part names from 3D Explporation and looked them up in the imported gmax model, and while listed, the geometry was not visible.

Either way, the lateste download (2008-11-28) appears to have fixed my findings. The missing parts import correctly, and the parts are now labeled with starting letters, instead of numbers.