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MSFS20 Best Program

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I'm wondering what everyone thinks the best program is for creating scenery objects.

I used FSDS for 20 years, and it was great, but someone in another thread said it likely would no longer do. Sketchup is now on-line only. Blender looks pretty advanced, but maybe it's the only choice?
 
I used Gmax throughout my fs2002-Fsx days. I switched to Blender for MSFS and have found it fairly easy to pick up. Also there is a lot of help because lots of designers are using it.

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Hi,

I guess there is no best program, the best program is the one you know best and work with most easiest.

Both SketchUp and FSDS do not support the PBR style materials that MSFS uses, so if you use any of these programs, you will have to setup your materials in another tool afterwards. The advantage of Blender is that it has support for all material settings with the MSFS exporter that is available.

So I guess I would pick Blender if I had to choose now. But if you feel very well with FSDS you can still use it to make objects and then for example convert them with MCX to the glTF format for MSFS.
 
I tried taking the main FSDS file I want to use and importing it to MCX, then exporting for MSFS, but when I tried to use it in ADE it tells me the object is 0X0 feet.
 
Can you add the glTF files directly in ADE? Or do you first need to turn them onto a library package with the package tool of MSFS?
 
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