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MCX MCX 1.4 crashes on my Model when opening Material Editor

hartmut

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Hi,

I have a weird problem and hope you can help me sorting it out.
I would like to import a Model from 3dwarehouse into a FS2020 scenery.
As a first step I have opened it in sketchup, selected everything, unlocked it and exploded it following the directions of ths video.
To get it into MCX I exported it in the DAE format (checking all options when exporting to dae). You can see the resulting DAE and textures in the attached file "tower.zip".

It looks like I can import this DAE in MCX 1.4 without a problem. It shows some warnings on texture sizes not being a power of 2 which is expected.
But as soon as I open open the material editor, I am not able to close it again without crashing the program.
I can perform some modifications in the material editor (like power of 2 recalculation or reducing the drawcalls), but if I try to close the material editor and export the modified dae for further editing in blender it hangs and brings up an error message after a while saying that Model Converter X is not responding and If I would like to wait or cancel the process. Waiting several minutes does not help.

Any support on investigating the cause of this issues would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
Hartmut
 

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rhumbaflappy

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If you are converting this to MSFS, use the development version of MCX, not the 1.4

I can convert to MSFS glTF just fine.
 
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Hi,

Your model does not use huge textures or so. So I don't understand why the material editor would crash, but I'll try to reproduce it later.
 
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Hi,

I can't reproduce the crash here, the material editor just opens fine with your model.
 
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