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FS2004 Another shadow question

Sidney Schwartz

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Does the "no shadow" option in the material editor work with FS2004? Setting it to true and exporting had no effect on the texture in FS9, and when I reloaded the modified mdl back into MCX, the no shadow option was set back to false. I was able to remove the shadow using MDL Tweaker, but it would nice if I didn't have to add another program to the process.
 
Hi,

No, that setting is for FSX only. I am not aware of a FS2004 way to set shadow through MakeMDL on specific parts.
 
I've had to use Model Tweaker too, Sidney. That does work fine, although it is another step.
 
Arno, could you incorporate the FS2004 no shadow function of MDL Tweaker into MCX? Could be an export option. :D
 
Hi,

I could include it in the MDL Tweaker function that I added in ModelConverterX recently.

But I can't put it into the export step directly, it would always be a MDL tweak. That's because MakeMDL does not support this option directly.
 
Hi,

That would be good too, although again, an extra step (create the MDL, load the MDL, and tweak the MDL). It would be nice if when you Export an FS2004 MDL file you could choose the tweaks you want at that point - then the MDL file would be created, then tweaked, automatically. :)

MDL files could still be loaded into MCX to be tweaked, of course.
 
Hi Tom,

I guess that should be possible. I'll have a look at it.
 
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