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CFS2 / FS9 "legacy" models?

roger-wilco-66

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Hi,

I started to work with SAMM and had quite a few successes, what a great tool!
Cheers to the developer!

But I noticed that there must be some models that were converted from original CFS2 aircraft to FS9, and some were even ported to FSX. SAMM does not want to read these files ("no FS8/FS9 models"), and I guess there is still some "legacy code" from CFS2 in the models.
I suspect that there are still some "if var and" conditions or something else that bugs SAMM. Would it be possible to ignore that code when SAMM parses these model files? If we could read models that had its origin in CFS2 it would be a real blast, because then we designers of historical sceneries (I did FSX Solomon 1943) could populate the airfields with all those splendid CFS2 models as static scenery objects.

I know it could be done, because I did it before manually by hand by hacking the SCASM code of the models, but this is a very tedious and error prone process and often requires a rework of the models in GMAX, because of detached parts that collapse to the center of the 3d model. Now if SAMM could work with this, as I said, this would be revolutionary.

All the best,
Mark
 
Mark, while I've never experimented with CFS2 models, so I have no idea what the differences at the BGL level might be. (SAMM decompiles the BGL, "adjusts" it and re-compiles; it does not work at the SCASM level.)

I'll take a look at doing what you ask. But it won't be for a while.

Surely there can't be many aircraft that exist for pre-FS8 that have not been redone for FS8/9.

Don
 
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