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Pre FS2002 MDL format description?

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Hi,

Does anybody know if the pre FS2002 aircraft MDL format is described somewhere in a SDK or so? I looked in the FS98 SDK already, but I did not find much information there.
 
Arno,

I do not know.

I started in FS2002 days, but was in FSDS back then and didnt work with the SDK's except the manual for FSDS.

Bill Lyons would sure know.



Bill
 
I know that the familiar BGL opcodes are used in it, it is more the structure and segments that I need to know. Else it will come down to some trial-and-error reverse engineering :).
 
Some of the guys in central Europe still model in FS2002. You might ask this over at freeflightdesign.org and see if anyone chimes in. We would get them coming in asking for advice for FS2002, 2000, and FS98.

Also, a search under FS2002 might turn up some of those threads over there.



Bill
 
Hi Bill,

I found some information already, it seems FlightGear also has a loader for the older FS MDL files and I found the source code for that.

Btw, the FS2002 MDL format is different, that one I can read already with ModelConverterX.
 
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