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Arno I am reading how to add platforms in MCX. I have version 1.2 which I downloaded not long ago.

I am watching your great video tutorial about how to add landable platforms, and I see some things in your version of MCX that are different than mine. I am able to click on Attached Object Editor and it allows me to add, remove and close. When I click add, the platform selection is greyed out.

Do I not have the correct version? Did I not set it up correctly?

Mark

EDIT: Arno, pls disregard -- it is important to download the latest release file. All I did was copy all the contents of that zip file into my modelconverterx folder and replace. Worked fine, I was able to quickly add the landable platforms on a fishing vessel. Next I will test it in FSX.
 
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Hi Mark,

Good to hear you found the solution already, I hope your platforms work well.
 
Well sir, the platforms do work. They don't work well just yet, but they work. Your tool was the easy part.

What I am doing is spawning some AI mission objects on the deck of a trawler. The trawler moves very slowly but the objects still slide off. I guess there needs to be some kind of friction built into the platform as well. I know this doesn't happen when I spawn these same objects on a number of AI ship decks (built by others - who know what they are doing).

None of this is a shortcoming of this tool, to be sure. It was easy enough for even non-programmer types like to sort it out. Well done, Arno. Thank you.

Ripcord
 
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