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FSDS To RWY12 and other things

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Hi
I am a total newbie to this but I am having a hell of a time trying to get scenery objects from fsds into rwy12 for placement, in theory I think it should be possible. Does anyone else use this method? I can get Gmax objects into rwy12 no problem, but fsds mdl's won't work for me in rwy12, am I missing something?

I've got a ton of questions that I am doing my best to figure out. Is Arno's object placer compatible with fsds2 mdl's? Why does fsds mdl export only have aircraft mdl's as an option and does it matter if you are trying to create scenery objects rather than aircraft? Is it possible to start a project with fsds2 and import it to Gmax?

Is Fssc compatible with fs9?

As a newbie I find fsds easier to use than Gmax, (I think Gmax would take a year to learn how to use well!!)
I am not being lazy in asking these questions, I have studied tutorials to death and can't quite get the hang of this that easily. After a frustrating week I thought I would ask for help. (although I have learned alot.)

One more question, in Fsds in point mode you can easily sellect and distort shapes by moving the points, how do you do this in Gmax?

Thanks for reading and any pointers you can pass on.
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Hi,

minula said:
I've got a ton of questions that I am doing my best to figure out. Is Arno's object placer compatible with fsds2 mdl's? Why does fsds mdl export only have aircraft mdl's as an option and does it matter if you are trying to create scenery objects rather than aircraft? Is it possible to start a project with fsds2 and import it to Gmax?
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You already answer your question here. FSDS2 can only export as aircraft MDL, it is not able to export as Fs2004 scenery MDL. FSDS2 has not (yet?) been updated to the Fs2004 formats. So you can not place FSDS2 objects with Rwy12, as they are not in the correct format.

There is a DXF exporter for FSDS2, you can then import these DXF files into GMax. After remapping the textures, you can export as a scenery MDL from GMax.

minula said:
Is Fssc compatible with fs9?
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The scenery created with FSSC works in Fs2004, due to the backwards compatibility, but FSSC is not able to create scenery using the Fs2004 XML comands.

minula said:
One more question, in Fsds in point mode you can easily sellect and distort shapes by moving the points, how do you do this in Gmax?
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If you have converted your object to "Editable mesh" or "Editable polygon", you can select Vertex mode and move every vertex as you want.
 
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Ahh!

Thanks Arno
You saved me a few grey hairs! I D/L the CVA converter and that works fine to get the dxf into gmax. :)

I know most of my questions will seem simple to you so thanks for your help.

David
 
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arno said:
You already answer your question here. FSDS2 can only export as aircraft MDL, it is not able to export as Fs2004 scenery MDL. FSDS2 has not (yet?) been updated to the Fs2004 formats. So you can not place FSDS2 objects with Rwy12, as they are not in the correct format
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Hi Arno

Is your above statement still true? Someone told me that FSDS 2.4 will export
and object to an XML file.

Thanks
CK
 
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CanadaKen said:
Is your above statement still true? Someone told me that FSDS 2.4 will export and object to an XML file.
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Yes, the latest version of FSDS2 is indeed able to export an XML file, but that file "just" contains the object in an XML definition. But that is not the same as the XML format used by BGLComp to place objects (and you would need a MDL object as well).

You will have to wait for FSDS3 for these features.
 
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arno said:
But that is not the same as the XML format used by BGLComp to place objects (and you would need a MDL object as well).

You will have to wait for FSDS3 for these features.
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I understand now, thanks Arno.

CK
 
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