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Hello Arno!

MCX has come to the rescue for some old, old scenery files that I'm trying to convert to FSX format, but I've hit a snag with a couple of files.

Quick background; a friend made some lighthouses for Hawaii for me back in the FS9 era. For different reasons, I never got around to releasing the work. When FSX came out the FS9 style material (?) caused visual problems and the friend never got around to updating the files. I've since lost contact with him, as emails bounce back from a closed address.

So I am trying to convert the MDL files using MCX, both 1.2 and the latest dev. copy. MCX is doing a good job, as there are just a couple of spots still "black". But that's not what I'm writing about. In the work that was done there are a couple of MDL files with an attachpoint or two and I'd like to convert one or both to FSX format, so that I can set up a beacon to serve as the lighthouse light. But when I try to export I get an error from MCX, picture attached.

My modeling skills are quite limited, so converting the FS9 file to work with FSX type attach points would be ideal. One of the MDL files is attached.

Is this doable or should I fire up the modeling program and get the user manual printed out?
 
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Hi,

The problem with that MDL file is that it only contains two attachpoints, but no geometry.

The crash you have is gone if you set the option in ModelConverterX to not have crash detection on the MDL. But then still XtoMDL does not convert it correclty.

I would have to check if with GMax or so you can make such MDL files in FSX, for FS2004 that could also not be done directly from GMax and required some "tweaking".
 
Thank you for your insight, Arno.

I think I know what needs to be done to achieve the goal in FSX. It's just doing it within the modeling program, which always turns out to be an adventure for me.
 
Like I said, I am not sure if the modelling program can export a MDL with only an attachpoint as well. For FS2004 you usually had to do some manually tweaking to get that working.
 
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