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Blender Blender - ArmorPaint - MSFS2020, Beginner Tutorial.

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Create your First Flying Object, Put on a 3D PBR Texture, and Export to MSFS2020 in just 20 minutes! 😃👍
This tutorial was made especially for those overwhelmed by the new advanced technologies used in MFS2020.
 

Lagaffe

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Hi,

Do you know that a Blender plugin exist : ArmorPaint LiveLink written par Léo Dupoix ( https://github.com/PiloeGAO/Blender-ArmorPaintLiveLink )
This plugin in Blender can authorized to export directly your blend file to ArmorPaint (whithout canceling Blender), modify it and save your texture in a defined directory in order to re-use it in Blender.

Working as this you can use the two programs in simulteous and earn a lot of time ;)

A presentation :

Howto to install : https://githubmemory.com/repo/PiloeGAO/Blender-ArmorPaintLiveLink#installing
 
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I would like to know, using the smart uv project in Blender (at least for me) sometimes leads to rotated normalmaps for some faces
How do you guys handle your UV mapping? Do you use smart uv project when working with ArmorPaint? Or do you 'hand-unwrap'? Should I use seams with Smart UV project?
Also, long walls tend to get very small texel density in the uv, is there a way to split it up, without having the noticable seams? These are immediately noticable when texturing using corrugated steel walls, because it breaks the flow.
 
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Also @Didier, when you are using the Live Link addon, do you first work with multiple objects you are working on per building? Because the live link addon does not allow to split by material oder color ID I noticed?
 

Pyscen

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Smart UV unwarpping doesn't use seams. If using seams, you are better off using uv unwarapping or.the 'U' command within the UV editing tab. There are.also more unwrap algorithms within the uv editing tab.
 
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OK, that seems to have been the problem with the rotated faces. Seems smart uv takes the seams into account, after removing the seams similar faces of one side of the building aren't rotated anymore.
 
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