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Blender <-> FSX MDL

hi after some help am trying to find a version of blender that supports .dds textures if any one can recommend one and where to down load that would help thanks .
 
Hi,

Have Googled a little bit under "Blender and .dds support" and found this on a forum:

agtGreg09-Nov-07, 05:48
Don't you mean 2.45?
Holy crap! I wasn't aware of this update. I'll install it and see how it goes with DDS

Mmph!, you are using the latest version and there isn't DDS support?

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EP109-Nov-07, 08:30
Hi, I've downloaded the 492_win32-vc (and all other SVN builds from there onwards) build from graphicall and it had full DDS support.

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Mmph!09-Nov-07, 16:16
2.45 has DDS?

wow! I got to go and try this :D

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So, maybe that's helpfull ? :rolleyes:

Greetz. José.
 
Has there been any more progress with this tool? With the demise of the ACES team we are seriously looking at moving to X-Plane and would like to convert our existing FSX and FS9 aircraft over. Anything that would keep us from doing all from scratch would be great.
 
What's the rush? FS9 and FSX aren't going anywhere. There are still tens of thousands of satisfied users out there...
 
Panther said:
Has there been any more progress with this tool? With the demise of the ACES team we are seriously looking at moving to X-Plane and would like to convert our existing FSX and FS9 aircraft over.
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As you can tell, I haven't been able to find time to give these scripts much attention.

My original intention was to create a set of Blender scripts that would import and export MDL files. So the scripts currently aren't ideal for converting models to X-Plane - they import features (eg specular maps) which aren't supported by X-Plane and which will confuse the Blender X-Plane exporter scripts.

I'll re-purpose the scripts to import MDLs in a form suitable for subsequent export to X-Plane. Actually this simplifies things for me, since it was the export to MDL that I was having difficultly with.

Of course this will only deal with the visual model and won't help with either the cockpit instruments or the flying model.
And I won't be able to import animations - X-Plane and MSFS animation systems are too different so animations will have to be re-created in Blender.
 
Marginal, that sounds great. Understand about the limitations. It will still save lots of work.

Bill, it is not about rushing. It's about planning ahead. Not only that if we have the means to create content for both sims then all the better.
 
man, blender2fsx is just what i needed, thank you SO MUCH!
but i have just a question: how to manually install it? since the installer doesn't seems to work on windows 7.
also, do i need python installed? cuz blender can't detect python installation.
thanks again.
 
hi!

is there someone in here???

Well, I've been looking all over the net and it seems that Blender2FSX isn't working well.



Just wanted to confirm that.

Marginal! are you still working on this???

I've spent hours working on a model for an airport project that i'm starting, textured it, and it's not working.
Actually I could export the model with a simple material and see it in FSX, but if it's textured it doesn't work.

Blender is great software and working in gmax is painful! (IMHO) so, if I don't find how to work between blender and fsx I think i'll give up.

I hope there's a reply soon.

Thanks!
 
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GMax is nowhere near as painful as trying to get the Blender2FSX stuff working... :D
 
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hey guys, im new to this community and already need your help.....well actually thats why im here.....
i wanted to ask, if there is a way to convert the .mdl files of DOWNLOADED FSX Planes to 3DS files. Because I have an aircraft but Blender cant read the .mdl file.
Thank you!!!!

Greetz,

YayaB
 
Hi,

My ModelConverterX tool can read some parts of the FSX MDL information and save it to 3DS. But what are you trying to achieve with this? It is not allowed to edit somebody else's work.
 
Hey is there any update on this exporter? I absolutely HATE gmax just cant work with it at all since i started on Blender and i really need a plugin that aside from exporting FS9/FSX MDL, can deal with:

Animations
Attach Points
Platforms
material settings

Updates???

O yeah if it can also deal with placing gauges in the directly in the VC in the MDL file
 
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Ok... How about this. Gmax -> Blender -> XP-9

Is anyone doing this? Can an X file go into Blender?
 
From my limited testing, X files even parse through MakeMdl2002 !

It seems that we don't especially need FS9 or FSX export tools. Having used blender briefly, I could not quite imagine why I would want to go back from Gmax / Max to a non-standard tool.

The gradient would seem to be converting FSX creations into Xplane or Flightgear. There is heaps of content for FSn, and not so much for the other two platforms.

Therefore: mdl import --> obj or ac3 export (or whatever)
 
Hi,

I thought the script mentioned here in this thread also did FSX MDL import. But it is a long time ago I looked at it.

Else you might want to look at my ModelConverterX tool. It can convert objects into formats like 3DS or Wavefront OBJ. Those you should be able to load in Blender as well. Or if you want to go to FlightGear or X-Plane you can also directly export to AC3 or X-Plane OBJ.
 
I haven't quite strayed into X-plane or FG yet. But there seems to be a demand for content ... so who knows.
 
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