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Is it a bug or me?

Ablai McKerrow

Ablai McKerrow

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hey all!

Found an issue with ground polygons. At least with me. I made two ground polygons, one with blender and the other with sketch up. I've tried exporting the blender one to the sim for months and no luck, but the sketch up one worked first time. Would you guys have any idea?

Cheefs
 
Hi,

It would help if you provide a little more information on how you tried to convert them. For MCX it doesn't really matter from which tools they come, it can read certain formats. So how did you try to convert those ground polygons you made in Blender?
 
arno said:
Hi,

It would help if you provide a little more information on how you tried to convert them. For MCX it doesn't really matter from which tools they come, it can read certain formats. So how did you try to convert those ground polygons you made in Blender?
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So I have followed exactly the procedure that has to be followed and not sure what I am missing. I will write down the steps that I have followed.

1. I made the planes accordingly in blender over the satellite image that we had.
2. I uv mapped the textures on to the planes in blender itself. for example: taxiways, taxiway lines, etc. All the texture sizes are in the power of 2 and are .jpg files
3. I exported it from blender in .dae format and imported it using the ground polygon wizard in Model converterX. I used the material editor to add the respective textures to the planes.
4. I set the paths for scasm, bglcompiler, Shp2vec and other needed ones in options par of MCX.
5. I set the paths for Scenery and Texture folder of our scenery, where it needs to place the bgl and the converted textures file in .dds format.
6. I then added the coordinates, altitude and heading from the airport design editor x to ground polygon wizard. Then, I set the priority order for the textures. For example: base first and then the taxiwaylines, etc.
7. Then I clicked on convert which places all the texture files in .dds format into Texture folder of the scenery and the .bgl file into the scenery folder....While I did all this, there are absolutely no errors or warnings showed by MCX.
8. I opened up my sim and added the folder with scenery and texture into the scenery library at the top of it.
9. The ground polygons does not show up in the sim.. :(

I even tried the z-bias method reccomened with p3d...

Thanks
 
Which version of P3D are you using? And are you using FSX or P3D output mode in the GPW?
 
Weird. All your steps sound OK. So the SketchUp model works with these steps, but the Blender one not? Can you attach both resulting BGL files so that we can see what the difference is?
 
Ablai McKerrow said:
Using p3d v3.3.5, using export for p3d v2.

I've tried it in FSX also using the FSX export.
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I am interested in this issue also for my Blender to P3D toolset. I am in the final stages of testing the z-bias and bgl export and would appreciate a real world example of a GP using blender. Any chance of getting a small example of what you are doing using blender? PM me if you can.
 
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