MSFS Blender2MSFS support thread

[RomanDesign]

Please help me with exporting textures, I tried everything I can... I imported two bus models to Blender, and exported them - both models show up white. No textures. I'm attaching the Blender file just in case. Models show up fine in Blender, with textures. The texture files are actually exported in the ../texture/ folder in the scenery. Objects show up in the scenery builder, but there are no textures, they are all white. Any advice appreciated.

 

[TheJon182]

Any news about the 2.90 plugin version?

 

[Milan05]

I had the same (?) problem as Milan05 -- textures switching from one object to another. I discussed it in this thread a few pages back. The problem went away after I stopped exporting the textures from Blender and replaced them in the source package with new copies that hadn't been exported. I don't know what the cause was exactly but I have had no problems since and I have exported many, many times.

To clarify how I fixed this - it was through the advice of Vitus. I stripped my model completely of textures and then used smart uv project. Then I manually added every material back...tedious yes, but it had to be done, all works well now except the LODs I mentioned in my previous post which I can't work out how to get going correctly

 

[fsdev3d]

To clarify how I fixed this - it was through the advice of Vitus. I stripped my model completely of textures and then used smart uv project. Then I manually added every material back...tedious yes, but it had to be done, all works well now except the LODs I mentioned in my previous post which I can't work out how to get going correctly

I think i had the same issue, and what i did was to simply rename the texture filename to something else and re-export. This somehow made the textures appear on the correct parts of the mesh.

 

[OffTheRicta]

The Blender2MSFS toolkit doesn't provide an import option, it's strictly export only.

@Milan05 This is the first time I'm hearing of this, so chances are that this is something on your end. Does you object have a valid UV?

Thanks Vitos. Ok then, so I cannot import the model. I get errors

Im new to this so please excuse me if Im missing something obvious

:: ALso, this tute

shows him imprting using MSFS in the import options.

 

[Anthony Cls]

Hi !

I have a problem while installing the .zip "Blender2MSFS toolkit". (Maybe the same of OffTheRicta)
After installation, I check the box but it gives me errors messages about the location of the files in my Blender directory, and cannot be activated.
Any ideas ?

Thank you.

 

[bLindye]

Hi !

I have a problem while installing the .zip "Blender2MSFS toolkit". (Maybe the same of OffTheRicta)
After installation, I check the box but it gives me errors messages about the location of the files in my Blender directory, and cannot be activated.
Any ideas ?

Thank you.

Addon doesn’t work with Blender 2.90, you need to have Blender 2.83

 

[Lagaffe]

@OfftTheRicta and Anthony Cls,

You seem to be confusing two products: Blender2MSFS proposed by Vitus which does not allow the import of glTF files as he reminded several times in this post and MSFS2Blender which is a development made by another person and has nothing to do with the work of Vitus.
The Vitus's plugin is to create aircraft, objects for scenery etc, not to make reverse engineering and modify UV mapping in order to create livreries

If using the second one, the import plugin doesn't work as you want it, the best thing to do is to go on github and ask questions about on the page where you found this plugin.

 

[Vitus]

Hi guys,
I uploaded the new version 0.40.0 of the Blender toolkit to the resource section. This should get rid of the repetitive remarks in this thread about the Plugin not being compatible with Blender 2.90 - because it now IS compatible with Blender 2.90.

To achieve this compatibility I now included all scripts of the Khronos glTF exporter and modified them to work with our addon. Hopefully, this should prevent these problems in the future until the Blender Foundation decides to change up the API again....

We had this version in testing for a couple of days now, and I haven't heard of any problems because of the new structure. But in case you find something. please let me know!

The second change is about the logic of GUID generation. I received some feedback from the scenery community that GUIDs should be generated on a per-model basis, rather than per scene. So now, the GUID is not saved with the scene anymore. Instead, when overwriting an XML, the GUID of that file is retained. A new GUID is only created when you generate a new XML file. I hope that makes it easier for you.

There's still a few items on my wishlist for the addon and I go through them as I find the time.

Thank you every one who donated in this round of development, it means the world to me!

 

[OffTheRicta]

@OfftTheRicta and Anthony Cls,

You seem to be confusing two products: Blender2MSFS proposed by Vitus which does not allow the import of glTF files as he reminded several times in this post and MSFS2Blender which is a development made by another person and has nothing to do with the work of Vitus.
The Vitus's plugin is to create aircraft, objects for scenery etc, not to make reverse engineering and modify UV mapping in order to create livreries

If using the second one, the import plugin doesn't work as you want it, the best thing to do is to go on github and ask questions about on the page where you found this plugin.

Thank you so much for pointing this out. I had trouble finding the later so when I found Blender2.... I figured I had read wrong.
I will start agian with the correct files.
Cheers.

 

[Milan05]

Have you had any issues with actually spotting the LOD scenery in the scenery list? I havent been able to actually see my LOD scenery in the scenery list even after following the right processes shown here:

Anyone have any ideas on this?

Alternatively as LODs seem to be a bit hit and miss for a few people, does anyone know how to stop my model from popping in only when right over the top of it? My model is <100mb and <500k vertices but still pops in. How can I fix it so that it loads perfectly for users even from a distance, even if that is through one high level of detail all the time.

 

[Anthony Cls]

Addon doesn’t work with Blender 2.90, you need to have Blender 2.83

Thanks for your messages !

Indeed I did with the previous version of Blender2MSFS toolkit and it works !
But I have an issues in FSDevelopper, maybe it is the source of the problem...

I'll try with the Blender2MSFS toolkit 0.40.0 new version.

Thank you !

 

[marcoh]

Please help me with exporting textures, I tried everything I can... I imported two bus models to Blender, and exported them - both models show up white. No textures. I'm attaching the Blender file just in case. Models show up fine in Blender, with textures. The texture files are actually exported in the ../texture/ folder in the scenery. Objects show up in the scenery builder, but there are no textures, they are all white. Any advice appreciated.

The texture (.PNG) is not in the ZIP file, so we can't check or find the problem.
Can you add it.

 

[marcoh]

Please help me with exporting textures, I tried everything I can... I imported two bus models to Blender, and exported them - both models show up white. No textures. I'm attaching the Blender file just in case. Models show up fine in Blender, with textures. The texture files are actually exported in the ../texture/ folder in the scenery. Objects show up in the scenery builder, but there are no textures, they are all white. Any advice appreciated.

After checkin you model, using my own texture, it seem that you have many "Materials" in the "Cude.001_cube...
Material.001
Material.002
etc

Only Material001 has MSFS parameters correctly configured.
The others materials don't have any MSFS materials selected in Material mode.

In my Blender, the bus is shown in White. After selecting MSFS Standard in material mode for all sub-materials. It's seem to be correct.

 

[YohanNaz]

Please help me with exporting textures, I tried everything I can... I imported two bus models to Blender, and exported them - both models show up white. No textures. I'm attaching the Blender file just in case. Models show up fine in Blender, with textures. The texture files are actually exported in the ../texture/ folder in the scenery. Objects show up in the scenery builder, but there are no textures, they are all white. Any advice appreciated.

There are a lot of different materials assigned to the bus and none of them appear to be setup correctly with MSFS materials. **EDIT Yes, there was one material that had an Albedo setup correctly, that's the material I renamed to MSFS.Bus2 just to be clean.

Attached an updated file with a single material with all faces assigned to it. Now, just select the textures in the MSFS Materials Params area.

** To check the faces with materials goto the materials tab with the object in "Edit Mode" and deselect all faces. Now, click a material and then click the button "Select" and it will show which faces are assigned to that material. There were multiple sets of faces in the bus that didn't have any MSFS materials. Hopefully this was a little part you were missing with the materials and mesh faces. Same goes for assigning faces to different materials, select only the faces you want for a specific material then click the "Assign" button. As long as the materials are MSFS and have proper textures you'll have a multi-material mesh. When the object is in "Object Mode", you can remove unnecessary materials from the mesh with "-" to keep it clean.

 

[YohanNaz]

Hi guys,
I uploaded the new version 0.40.0 of the Blender toolkit to the resource section. This should get rid of the repetitive remarks in this thread about the Plugin not being compatible with Blender 2.90 - because it now IS compatible with Blender 2.90.

To achieve this compatibility I now included all scripts of the Khronos glTF exporter and modified them to work with our addon. Hopefully, this should prevent these problems in the future until the Blender Foundation decides to change up the API again....

We had this version in testing for a couple of days now, and I haven't heard of any problems because of the new structure. But in case you find something. please let me know!

The second change is about the logic of GUID generation. I received some feedback from the scenery community that GUIDs should be generated on a per-model basis, rather than per scene. So now, the GUID is not saved with the scene anymore. Instead, when overwriting an XML, the GUID of that file is retained. A new GUID is only created when you generate a new XML file. I hope that makes it easier for you.

There's still a few items on my wishlist for the addon and I go through them as I find the time.

Thank you every one who donated in this round of development, it means the world to me!

Any chance of the ability to apply IES files to lights for export to MSFS? This would be a seriously cool thing to have.

Wonderful job on getting up to date with 2.9 thank you, installing now.

Dropped you a lil sumsum, cheers!

 

[TheJon182]

ooooops

Any idea?

 

[hoynedawg]

Hey @TheJon182 I've been having the same problem occasionally would love to know if anyone has a solution.

 

[stewart286]

I have the same problem. No textures in the texture folder made in blender before exporting. Should i make the model and texture folders first then run blender ,import the roc capture. After exporting checked the texture folder no textures. I checked the texture ..\texture\ created the guid ticked all the relavent boxes xml there, version 1.0 needs to be 1.1 easy to change i am an gmax and 3ds max user. I have a problem inporting gmax fmdl files into the updated 3ds max. Iwant to import my fsx mdl (Barton Highlevel etc) but no joy looks like i have to stsrt over. help

 

[delta_foxtrot]

Hi guys, any idea if we can export the object from the whole scene and make the object's origin automatically in its geometry on the SIM? without manually moving the object to the world origin in blender?