Issues while exporting from Blender to MCX 1.5

[Adrien]

It's important to remove unused vertices, line edges, polygons (faces), and parameters. This could be the very cause of the "null" value that MCX is referring to and removing it.

For exemple all of these edges can be removed right?

The Crash is abnormal. I can't explain the reason "why" it's crashing unless I see it for myself. It might be necessary for you to send the blend file to me to determine the cause, but that is up to you. When you say that it crashes, are you saying that it closes Blender and goes back to the desktop?

I can give you the file in PM. Yeah right, blender has closed suddenly.

The proper order to "Cleanup" and reset the "Transforms" is: 1st is the "Transforms" and then the "Cleanups". There are 2 "Cleanups": first is in "Edit" mode and then the "Cleanup" that you showed (2nd picture below). Make sure to select ALL before performing each of the "Cleanups". In the 2nd "Cleanup", you only need to use the first and third that are listed, for now (see pictures):

Ok I did the "Cleanup" in edit mode but when I switch in object mode to do the second one I have only 3 options and 1 I can use. Do you have a solution?

The "Scale": resets it back to 1.0 on all axis whatever unit you are using (metrics or imperial - if you scaled anything or not). Last is the Rotation, resets it back to 0 (whether you rotated anything or not.)

To reset the rotation and the scale, I have to change it here right?

BTW, what Flight Sim is this terminal for?

The scenery is for P3D v4.5 and higher and for MSFS.

 

[arno]

I see why loading the obj file takes long, but I nees to look how I can change that.

I have improved the reading speed of Wavefront OBJ files now. Your terminal object now loads in 10 seconds. I will need to run my regression test cases to check if things are still robust after the change, but it will be in the next development release.

 

[Adrien]

I have improved the reading speed of Wavefront OBJ files now. Your terminal object now loads in 10 seconds. I will need to run my regression test cases to check if things are still robust after the change, but it will be in the next development release.

Thank you so much Arno! Send me an email when the next development update is up!

 

[Pyscen]

For exemple all of these edges can be removed right?

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This has nothing to do with the Cleanup command, but yes you can, if you wish. These vertices and line edges are not loose. "Loose" means, in this case: not connected to anything.

Ok I did the "Cleanup" in edit mode but when I switch in object mode to do the second one I have only 3 options and 1 I can use. Do you have a solution?

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Sorry, I wasn't clear about which "Cleanup". Is this where it was crashing? The "Cleanup" command I was referring to is under the "File" tab and it's still in edit mode (see picture). If this is where Blender crashed for you,... it DID NOT Crash for me at all.

To reset the rotation and the scale, I have to change it here right?

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No... Do NOT reset Location, Rotation, and Scale Here. You can only reset through the "Object" tab -> Apply -> All Transforms in Object mode (see picture).

I am only seeing one material (for the roof). This isn't a texture - only a material (materials are only a color). The texture hasn't been UV unwrapped. I have returned to you a ".zip" file with "Cleanups" done and the removal of the unused material slots (there were 3). I resaved it as "terminal-1". As I said before, Blender DO NOT crash for me. My Blender is LTS v3.3.

 

[Adrien]

This has nothing to do with the Cleanup command, but yes you can, if you wish. These vertices and line edges are not loose. "Loose" means, in this case: not connected to anything.

Ok so if I don't remove these ones that will not affect the texturing, UV unwrapping or FPS for exemple?

Sorry, I wasn't clear about which "Cleanup". Is this where it was crashing? The "Cleanup" command I was referring to is under the "File" tab and it's still in edit mode (see picture). If this is where Blender crashed for you,... it DID NOT Crash for me at all.

I did it, fortunatly Blender is not crashing! As for me, blender crash when I execute this command in object mode

No... Do NOT reset Location, Rotation, and Scale Here. You can only reset through the "Object" tab -> Apply -> All Transforms in Object mode (see picture).

I am only seeing one material (for the roof). This isn't a texture - only a material (materials are only a color). The texture hasn't been UV unwrapped. I have returned to you a ".zip" file with "Cleanups" done and the removal of the unused material slots (there were 3). I resaved it as "terminal-1". As I said before, Blender DO NOT crash for me. My Blender is LTS v3.3.

Ok, this is what I did, I had not touch to that.

I am only seeing one material (for the roof). This isn't a texture - only a material (materials are only a color). The texture hasn't been UV unwrapped. I have returned to you a ".zip" file with "Cleanups" done and the removal of the unused material slots (there were 3). I resaved it as "terminal-1". As I said before, Blender DO NOT crash for me. My Blender is LTS v3.3.

Thank you so much! I received it

 

[Adrien]

I have a little problem,

When I reload my colors that I make in Photoshop.

At the begining, the model has not loaded my textures probably because you're in 3.3 and me in 3.0.

So I reloaded the 4 textures in shading tab, I just reopen the image from my desktop but it seems like MCX do not want to load it properly.

Here is what it looks in MCX before I reload the textures in blender

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Pyscen]

Those textures were not saved or were not baked onto the texture map because of the UV unmapping hasn't been properly done. Just attaching the nodes within the Shading Editor doesn't save the textures onto the UV map. Are these textures that you are creating through Photoshop just colors?

The 3 unused material slots were not attached to the model, therefore, were removed (terminal-1)..

In your last picture, the black and white checkerboard means that it's not finding the texture. Where do you have the texture placed in regards to the model?

 

[Adrien]

Are these textures that you are creating through Photoshop just colors?

Yes I created only colors because this is another person that makes the textures.

Where do you have the texture placed in regards to the model?

The textures are placed in another folder than the model folder. The exported textures are in the same folder than the .dae

 

[Pyscen]

First, you need to create the UV map properly.

You are trying to add multiple textures onto a model that only has 1 UV map. That means that just one of the textures is being applied. All of the others are lost because only 1 UV map was created. That is not a Blender or MCX error. Blender and MCX are getting everything done correctly based on this.

There are seams all over the place on your model - you may not need that many. You might have more detail that is needed in the model. I suggest you remove the light fixtures and do them separately for starters. Those edge lines you mentioned before should be removed, unless they are a different material.

Let us move this to a private message. This will take a while.

 

[Adrien]

Let us move this to a private message. This will take a while.

Yes for sure that will help me if you explain in details!

 

[arno]

Thank you so much Arno! Send me an email when the next development update is up!

The new development release is online now.

 

[Adrien]

The new development release is online now.

Thanks! It works perfectly!