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MSFS [WIP] FS2020 support

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Hi all,

While I am working on FS2020 support for ModelConverterX I will use this thread to keep you posted about the progress. It will still be a while before the functionality ends up in the development release, as I need to test more.
 
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Current status is that I have added a glTF importer and exporter to MCX, so that I can export object to the glTF format and read them from it as well. At the moment the basic materials and geometry are supported.

The glTF file as made by MCX can be loaded in an online glTF viewer and there is shows correctly (see screenshot below), so tomorrow I am going to try to import it in FS2020 as well.

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Hi Arno, are u able to provide an x-plane obj importer perhaps as that would save a lot of us a huge amount of hassle as we want to convert sceneries from sketchup into msfs readable format. Unfortunetly, no format, except xplanes own has all the textures mapped correctly. In sketchup u can import xplane obj and it will render it just fine; is there a possibility to do the same in MCX?

Thank u for your great work!
 
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DragoB said:
Hi Arno, are u able to provide an x-plane obj importer.........................
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This has been a feature of MCX for many years, worst case you'll have to convert into FSX format first (very unlikely).
 
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MCX has an X-Plane importer already, although the PBR materials are not supported fully in there.

But since X-Plane and FS2020 PBR materials are not the same, I am not sure if this would really help.

Once I understand more how it works, I think it might be possible to add a material template to make it easier to update to PBR. But making all of the texture files will always be the artists work.
 
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Bit more progress today. This is a glTF object exported from MCX and then converted into a package for FS2020 using the sample from the SDK. After fixing a few bugs in the MCX output I am happy to see the object come over to FS2020.

At the moment MCX can export BGL files to FSX and P3D as well. Since the BGL creation is done by the package tool in FS2020 I need to see how I can/want to support that from MCX. A package typically contains multiple BGL files (e.g. library and placement). So that does not really fit into the current way MCX works when it makes a BGL file.
 
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DBushell said:
Arno if you need any assistance testing it for mdls, I'd be happy to!
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Once I have enough functionality to have some basic features, I will put it in the development release for all to test and help improve things.
 
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Thank you Arno, excellent work as always, I am looking forward to testing and seeing how and what I can take advantage of my P3D scenarios for FS 2020, sorry for my terrible English
 
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Hi,

Some progress again today. I have updated the material editor with the material attributes that FS2020 uses. Most of them I could map to existing attributes, so that conversion is easier. FS2020 uses different names for some of them, I'll have to check if I can switch the names based on the filter that is applied.

The various attributes that you see in the editor are also read and written to/from the glTF files now.

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I need to check some details for object transformations and I want to check levels of details, but after that I think there should be a first version that can be released for testing.
 
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It's absolutely necessary to test in different equipment, configurations and philosophies, Thanks, it is an essential tool for me
 
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Arno, I love your tagline! That is the best one I've ever seen!
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
 
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Davidws10 said:
Arno, I love your tagline! That is the best one I've ever seen!
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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Yes, I also loved it once I found it. It's a quote from Peter Ustinov apparently. It's good to always consider an expert (including myself) might not know everything as well.
 
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