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FS2004 MCX - MDL9 Writer error

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wildcat64

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Hi everyone,

just making my first steps in scenery design for FS9. The goal is to make an animated airfield scenery of Houtem AB, an important military airfield in non-occupied Belgian during WW1, in the vicinity of the Belgian Military HQ of King Albert I in the small town Houtem, near the city of Veurne (Furnes en français). The airfield does no longer exist today but I was able to find some old photos of it. The dream is to make an online, multiplayer flight along the Belgian frontline on the 18th of november 2014 to commemorate all heros of the great war, especially my grand-oncle who faught at the river Yzer near Diksmuide!

I have already made the airfield rwy, txwy, etc with AFCAD and I placed a few Bessonneau hangars with EZ scenery.

In Sketchup I've found some beautiful 3D models of WW1 fighters with Belgian skins. I managed to export them as .DAE and import them succesfully into ModelConverterX but when exporting them as a FS2004 MDL, the MDL9 Writer gives the following error: This object has over 65535 vertices and can not be exported to FS2004 MDL. I did search the internet and forums and I did found out that this error is due to a limitation of the MDL9 Writer itself but i did not found any solution for it. Is there one? What could or should I do next?

Thx for your replies!

Wildcat64
 
Hi,

The only way is to simplify the model.
For instance, a lot of vertices are used to "paint" the numbers and the flag, etc, on the plane. Editing the components and replacing all those superfluous vertices by textures, will probably solve your problem and will make the model easier on the fps as well.
 
Those Sketchup models are usually not suitable for FS, because they have thousands of polygons. It's usually faster to use that model as a guide to create your own low polygon model than try to simplify it. You can sometimes even create your own textures from screen shots of the complex model.

Hope this helps,
 
Hi guys,

Thx for the quick replies! I got the message: refining or redrawing! Is there a program to easily simplify such a 3d object? The purpose would be to use the object as a static one in the airfield scenery.

Greatings

Wildcat64
 
Model Converter X has a Make LOD feature, which will simplify it.
 
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