• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

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    Hey Arno, I was wondering what SDK other than FSX and P3D V1.4 I can use to convert an aircraft to MSFS. Can't find the P3D V1 or V2 downloads anywhere, and don't own FSX. When trying to download V1.4.4747.0 I get a "404 - Not Found".

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    It seems LM removed or changed the P3D v1 link. If you don't own FSX that would be the only option. Let me check if the file is still hosted elsewhere.
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    Hi Arno,
    I just started using your ModelConverterX, and I'm facing a problem. I have purchased some scenes for MFS, and I noticed that a .BGL file in the program contains around 400 building models. However, when I import the model file, I can only see one model at a time. I'm wondering if there's a way to import the file and view it as a complete scene? I tried using the Build Scene Wizard, but no luck.
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    arno
    arno
    Most like you have loaded a modellib bgl file, that only contains the objects, but not their placement. The scenery probably also has a second bgl file that places all objects. If you load both these files in the build scene wizard you would get the complete scene as one object.
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    phttinat
    Hi there,

    I followed your instructions, but unfortunately, the program doesn't display anything. I even tried with a smaller file, but the result remains the same - nothing is shown.

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    phttinat
    Or is there any way to export the model into .fbx while preserving the positions they were set in when they are shown in MFS?
    thunder100
    Hi ARNO

    I have a problem that I cannot extract a FS2004 VC to P3DV4.4 or even FSX. Its an ALROT plane it looks like
    Outside model works seemless

    Thank you Roland

    Zip of Plane would be here

    we.tl

    HS850xpX.zip

    1 file sent via WeTransfer, the simplest way to send your files around the world
    we.tl we.tl

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    Hi,

    The VC model contains a texture with the name "alrot&simv.bmp". XtoMDL does not allow the & character to be used in texture names. If you rename that texture it will work.
    thunder100
    thunder100
    Try Immediately Thanks ARNO - I should have remebered that !!!
    thunder100
    thunder100
    Worked Thank you DANKE
    Microdude
    Hi arno Im still having a problem getting parking ramps to show up.

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    arno
    Hi, you better ask this on the forum (which I think you did already as well). I am not an expert in using ADE.
    Microdude
    Microdude
    ok thanks
    n1m1abc
    Hi arno,
    I was wondering if you could add (Expand/Collapse-Down/Up) menu in hierarchy editor ! it will be useful.

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    n1m1abc
    Yes i can already collapse or expand the different nodes but one by one !
    i mean Hide or collapse all nodes down that node, all in one click.
    arno
    arno
    I don't think that hiding nodes is a good idea, that would be confusing (and where to unhide them?).

    I can see a use for collapsing all nodes with one click. That is sometimes useful.
    n1m1abc
    n1m1abc
    Hidding or collapsing, whatever you could do would be great.
    Thank you prof.
    A
    hi arno, im a guy from spain, having few problems to convert fsx ai model planes to gITF. i have used MCX and make the conversion. after that i can see it generates 3 files: xml, bin, 3dobjcts.
    sorry, could you help me just a little bit? i really appreciate your help. its 15 years updating traffic airliners (6000 repaints), and now they dont work or rash MSFS. it only accepts 13.
    (fsxpai mdl works better)
    arno
    arno
    Hi,

    A model for MSFS contains for multiple files. Each level of detail consists of a separate glTF model. And each glTF file has a .BIN and a .GLTF file (these two together form the glTF model). The XML files defines that all these different models belong to the same model and can also specify other details like animations and such.
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    abran
    than you very much. you are very kind! im going to try stpe by step, but it makes me happy understanding it as you have explained!:)
    thanks from spain
    G
    Hi Arno,
    I'm trying to bring old FSX AI models to the new MSFS environment and tried to convert them using the good tool ModelConverX.
    Unfortunately I found that by importing an MDL and exporting it to GLTF the animations are not exported and resulted model imported in FS2020 is not showed.
    Is there any other way that can allow you to transform old MDLs into GLTF without violating authors' rights?
    Thanks
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    abran
    ok.
    something is missing and i dont know why: i can hear the turbines taxiing in front of me of my converted model a359, but i cant see it.

    what could i be missing?
    thanks again!
    arno
    arno
    I have no idea, I am not an aircraft developer myself. Maybe you better ask it in the forum where you will find more developers who might be able to help you.
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    abran
    oh, ok, thank you very much!:)
    B
    Am I able to add you on some sort of im? possibly facebook messenger?
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    bkircher
    or if you could just help me with this..

    aircraft.zip

    drive.google.com drive.google.com

    So the model is mostly converted, I am having a hard time getting the engine fans to work properly, also, I have no lights, didnt notice that until right now. Are you able to help me with this?
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    bkircher
    Were you able to look at this?
    arno
    arno
    I doubt I can help with specific aircraft modelling bits, I am not an aircraft modeller myself, I mainly understand the MDL file format :)
    L
    Please could you change my year of birth to 1941. The day and month are correct.
    arno
    arno
    OK, I have changed it.
    ronh
    Was wondering if I could get a user id for the Wiki, would like to update the Blender2MSFS, per vitus.
    M
    Arno,

    I just downloaded the "latest version of ModelconverterX, but it crashes on certain model files.
    Fw190D9m1.MDL crashes (Classics_Hangar_Fw190D-9)

    pby5_mil_Vingtor_ext.MDL crashed both in FSX-se and P3Dv5.1, latest hotfix (Aerosoft_PBY-5_Mil)


    default FSX Airbus_A321.MDL is OK

    Am I doing something wrong or..

    Regards,,

    Jan

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    mj507
    Arno,

    Dit is een stap in de goede richting, maar de objectrenderer genereert nog erg veel fouten, zie screenshot.

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    mj507
    Dit gebeurt ook bij de payware (fs190d) die nu dus niet meer crashed
    arno
    arno
    Die melding is wat vaag, maar ik denk dat er teveel bones zijn in het model. Ik zal kijken of dat aantal met de recente aanpassingen is veranderd.
    O
    I have been at this a couple of years now. I would love to make it work. I am an IT guy and I get so pissed off at it I just walk away from the flight sim altogether.
    My grandson is 8 who I only see 2 times a year will be home for Christmas this year. and now he is into flight sim big time. I was hoping I could get two models on the FSX box.
    Just our house and barn. He would think that was so cool.
    Geoffb
    Geoffb
    My grandson is 8 and lives in London, while I live in Australia. He is into flight sim since MFS2020 came out. Every weekend, he an I, multiplayer together some where in the world for a few hours...Great way to stay in touch...especially in these covid times.
    O
    I have nine different models all doing the same thing. I did a basic box store, as simple as it gets. It did runs until it completes the mdl and stops. It shows it wrote the file but it does not.
    of course, it does attempt to write the bgl on the box store model.
    arno
    arno
    I had a look with the BGL file you attached, but I can process it through the convert and place object wizard without any issue. I both tried the stable 1.4 release and the latest development release.

    Which build are you using?
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    Hi Arno
    I am having issues with exporting BGL files. See attached information.

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    arno
    Hi, it seems that the preview encountered an issue. That's also why you get the red cross. But this will indeed not affect the exporting, these run as separate threads.

    Do you get this error with any object or is there a specific action that you first apply in the GPW?
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    ohioavi
    As soon as you export or use the export wizard at the very end.
    arno
    arno
    But with any object or just this one?
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    Hi Arno
    I have discovered a rewards that are not on the FSX "Rewards list" on the Wiki. If you create me an account I could add them.
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    hi arno
    hope your'e well.. have an issue with sodeplacer... suddently an error comes up "Exeption in thread main:" followed by a very long list of messages !! do you know what the cause cut be ?
    arno
    arno
    Hi, why not post your question and the error message in the forum? Then somebody might be able to help you. SODE has a support forum here, so the author of the tool can help you there.
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    3. When we open the import or export dialog boxes in the menu, only one path of the last use of a file will be remembered. Is it possible to make what a paths of the last opening files remembered in each window separately? I have several versions of the aircraft and there is no possibility to store files in one folder.
    arno
    arno
    For the import button, you have the little arrow on the side that allows you to select from a list of previous opened files. For exporting there is no such feature and MCX will suggest a name based on the model that is currently loaded. I don't really see how I could change that.
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    Sergej
    Thank you!
    S
    2. Is it possible to make the function of searching for animation links on/off in the settings? (Could not find linked animation for...). It also takes a lot of time each time.
    arno
    arno
    Those warnings are caused by the X file having links to animations that do not exist in the XANIM file. But I don't think these warnings should cost a lot of time.
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