Detail map? Not Exporting in FSX Materials

[hcornea]

Another thread for another issue.

As explained elsewhere - I am using Modelconverter to "post-process" FSX_Gmax created files.

I am not sure if bump and detail map settings are exporting properly ... this texture has a tiled detail and bump map ... the bump still seems to be there (but diminished) and the detail map seems absent.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f288/hcornea/th_detailmapmissing.jpg (http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f288/hcornea/?action=view&current=detailmapmissing.jpg)

[hcornea]

Further Information:

On rechecking the Modelconverter processed model - the Detail Scale Value has dropped to 0, from 20.

It would appear this value reads ok from a freshly exported model, but doesn;t "write" properly into the FSX MDL file.

The Bump "amount" (next to the where the Map is specified in Gmax) doesn't seem to be present in the ModelconverterX material settings. I suspect this is not being read / written properly.

Many thanks for your work on this.

[arno]

Hi,

Thanks for the information. Let me check, it sounds like you found a bug and some of the settings are not written correctly when exporting. I will look into this.

[hcornea]

I think the problem in the other thread is a different one.

In this case the detail/bump settings don't export. In the other, the material doesn;t appear in the sim (even though MdlComverterX can re-import the processed model)

That was the reason for the two threads ... but we can keep it all here :)

[arno]

Hi,

I think it is a similar problem indeed. I will check the X writer for the material settings, since it seems some things are going wrong there.

[arno]

Hi,

I have fixed the bug of the detail map not being exported. For the rest I can't find missing parameters now. If you find any more, please let me know.

[hcornea]

I'll grab the Development release and test both issues again.

Thanks once again, Arno.

[hcornea]

Detail Map looks Fixed ... Thanks Arno !!

[hcornea]

Hmmm .. the missing material problem persists.

This is a very odd one, and must relate to something about this material - because it happens on two models that use this material, but I have not seen the same thing on any other models.

Just to recap:

The material in question is an FSX material, standard diffuse dds texture with alpha (DXT5), Global Environment Map as reflection, modulate by inverse diffuse alpha.

Now for the weird bit:

After processing through ModelconverterX, with the batch switch enabled, this material disappears from the model (not flipped normals ... just nothing) ... but if I load it again into ModelConverterX it displays.

Very very odd.

I can PM a link to the MDL and textures if you would like, but can't post it here unfortunately.

A sudden thought - could it be blending diffuse by inv spec alpha (ie nonexistent), or confusing the blend checkboxes?

[arno]

Hi,

Are you sure you used the latest development release? The detail map issue should be fixed in that. It is made every night at 2:00 CET (not sure how late that is in your timezone).

About the other settings, if you have a MDL file for me to debug that would be very useful. I tried to test it yesterday by making a test MDL with similar settings and that seemed to work, but I would be happy to test again with your object.

[hcornea]

The detail map is most definitely fixed.

I have PM'ed a link to some files to test.

This material is unusual clearly, as it fails to convert properly in two Models.