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FS2004 Objects with animation

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In a state of above normal confusion I confirmed Arnos's question
Do you happen to have a X file for FS2004 laying around with animations?
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when in fact I don't have such :eek:

So if anybody else has such a file and would like to see the export of animated FS9 objects added to the ModelConverterX feature list, please provide Arno with it.

Thanks you :)
 
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Hi,

Let me give a little more background for the request :).

Martin would like to have ModelConverterX also export animations to the FS2004 MDL format. To be able to add that I need to know how they should be defined in the X file, since it is different from FSX.

I could of course install MDLCommander to capture a X file myself, but if somebody has a FS2004 X file with animations laying around that would help a lot.
 
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Let's start with scenery object first, if I would try export to aircraft models there will be much more issues :D.
 
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Glad someone could help. I couldn't get MDL Commander to read my .par file and thus save the X file...
 
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tgibson said:
Glad someone could help. I couldn't get MDL Commander to read my .par file and thus save the X file...
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Try having the .gmax file and the .par file in the same folder... then export to that folder.

If it doesn't work, try the option to just save the x file with no compilation.

Dick
 
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Thanks Dick, I think with that code it should be possible to add this to ModelConverterX in the future.
 
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OK, got it working. It was actually a problem with my Shortcut I used to start GMAX. Sorry for the trouble. X file sent.

Thanks,
 
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Thanks Tom. With those two X file I think it should be possible to add animation support for FS2004 scenery MDL files.
 
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