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Convert X-Plane OBJ object to FSX MDL plus texture?

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drdavid

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Hi All - I'm hoping to use a couple of the human scenery objects from the X-Plane 3-D People Library in FSX (for a mission). MCX will import the OBJ and display the figure no problem, but when I export to FSX - as BGL - the figure displays in black - i.e. no texture. I've then tried putting the OBJ's associated PNG into a 'texture' file (alongside the 'scenery' file with the BGL) but the texture displayed is incorrect (a mess, in fact!).
So, is there a texture manipulation required to correct this and can this be done in MCX or DXTBmp or similar?
Any help gratefully received - Thanks!
Cheers - Dai.
 
dickb

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Not really answering your question, and I'm not sure what people you need, but there is a library of about 300 figures for FSX on the AVSIM library. It may even be a conversion of the X-Plane library you are using (it's authored by Wolfgang Allers). Search for 3dpeople_lib.
 
tgibson

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Yes, you need to convert the texture to BMP or DDS, and that can be done by MCX (in the Material Editor, as I remember).
 
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Many thanks, guys, for your quick responses. I will, indeed, check AVSIM out.
I will also look more closely at MCX'x texture conversion - I couldn't see how it was done so I guess I'll have to RTM!
Cheers - Dai.
 
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