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Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials

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I know I haven’t posted on this blog for a while, but it’s time for an announcement that needs to be here on this blog as well.

The development release of ModelConverterX does include support for the new Prepar3D v4.4 PBR materials. This means that MCX can now:

  • Read the material settings from a P3D v4.4 MDL file
  • Write the material settings to a P3D v4.4 MDL/BGL file
  • View and edit the material settings in the material editor

The preview image of MCX does not use the PBR settings, so the preview is still as before. For a pure PBR material it will probably look a bit weird. That’s something for a future update.

In the material editor I have added a special material view filter that will show you only the PBR related attributes. See the screenshot below. If you want to make a PBR material make sure you set the ‘Is PBR material’ attribute to true, else MCX will export as a normal P3D material.

Another thing you need to be aware of is that MCX can not automatically distinguis between the P3D v4.4 and previous v4 SDKs. This means you might manually have to check if the XtoMDL and BGLComp path for both versions are still correct. You can see them in the options.

Let me know if I forgot anything needed for PBR or if you find other issues. It was quite some refactoring to add this, so I might have broken something else by accident.

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@arno thank you for this awesome tool!
with this release i've encountered one problem (maybe i'm doing something wrong?)
please watch the video below to better understand
 
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Hi, the convert and place wizard doesn't support P3D v4.4 yet, it only uses the older SDK for the moment.
 
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I'll try to add it in the next days. The export scenery option in MCX does already support writing v4.4 bgl files.
 
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arno said:
I'll try to add it in the next days.
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sounds good ^^
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The export scenery option in MCX does already support writing v4.4 bgl files.
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i've already tried that, and it's not working for some reason
17:52 XReader Information Starting reading of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR.x
17:52 XReader Warning Unsupported X command OverrideBoundingBox
17:52 XReader Warning Unsupported X command OverrideRadius
17:52 XReader Warning Could not find linked animation for Box001
17:52 XReader Warning Could not find linked animation for Sphere001
17:52 XReader Information Finished reading objects
17:52 ObjectRenderer Information Starting generating OpenGL arrays...
17:52 ObjectRenderer Information Finished generating OpenGL arrays
17:52 ObjectRenderer Information Loaded texture: ..\texture\texturescom_castlegate_1k_albedo.dds
17:52 ObjectRenderer Information Loaded texture: ..\texture\texturescom_castlegate_1k_normal.dds
17:52 BGLXWriter Information Starting writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR.bgl
17:52 MDLXWriter Information Starting writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XWriter Information Starting writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\tmpEF6F.x
17:52 XWriter Information Finished writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\tmpEF6F.x
17:52 XtoMDL Information Found output file: E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XtoMDL Information OutputFile: E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XtoMDL Information Output file after modification: E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XtoMDL Information Creating output MDL file: E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XtoMDL Information CRASHTREE no granularity specified
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : ----------------------------------------------------------------
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : XToMdl.exe Unhandled Application Exception
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : Parameter name: index
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : ----------------------------------------------------------------
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : Stack Trace:
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error :
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at System.Collections.ArrayList.get_Item(Int32 index)
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.LODBuckets.GetHighestGranularityBucket()
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.ModelProcessingContext.BuildCrashTree()
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.ModelProcessingContext.Optimize()
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.XToXmlLib.<GetFileProcessor>d__25.MoveNext()
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.FileExporter.OutputModels(IEnumerable ProcessedModels)
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.XToXmlLib.OutputModels(IEnumerable`1 processedModels)
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToXmlLib.XToXmlLib.Process(ModelFile[] InputFiles, Hashtable[] AnimationLinkage, String[] AnimationFileRef, XPartDict PartDictionary)
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToMDL.XToMDL.ProcessInputs()
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToMDL.XToMDL.RealMain(String[] args)
17:52 XtoMDL Error (0): error : at Microsoft.FlightSimulator.XToMDL.XToMDL.Main(String[] args)
17:52 MDLXWriter Information Finished writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 XMLWriter Information Starting writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR.xml
17:52 XMLWriter Information Finished writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR.xml
17:52 BGLCommp Information Parsing document: TestPBR.xml
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2014: Failed to load model data in file: E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2149: Failed to load model data! Does the file exist?
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2340: Failed to finalize MODEL_DATA!
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2032: XML Parse Error! Element tree follows:
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: <FSData
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: version = 9.0
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: >
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: <ModelData
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: sourceFile = E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR_0.mdl
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR: >
17:52 BGLCommp Information ERROR:
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2024: Failed to process closing element tag <ModelData> near line 4!
17:52 BGLCommp Information INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR: #C2607: Compilation errors detected, compilation failed!
17:52 BGLCommp Information Parse complete!
17:52 BGLXWriter Information Finished writing of file E:\Desktop\TestPBR\TestPBR.bgl
 
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So its not so good at least for me
My system BSOD "INTERRUPT_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" As i was running MCX!!!
Did a reinstall but still BSOD after 5 min.
never seen a bsod from this program
Can you check it please
BSOD appeared from the drive that MCX installed on!!!

My pc specs:
i7 4790k
16GB GSkill 1600Mhz
GTX 960 4 GB windforce
Z97X-Gaming 5 GA
Samsung 970 Evo 500 gb
2 X Samsung 850 evo gb
4TB seagate barracuda
750W seasonic PSU
Windows 7 Latest updates 64 bit ofc

WhoCrashed result here:
 

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I can't see much from that report, except that some Samsung driver failed. I doubt it's directly related to MCX.
 
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Its the drive that MCX installed on and only MCX ran in the background BTW its not the C drive
 
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To be honest I have no idea how MCX could cause something like this. In the latest release I didn't add anything weird, just extended some readers for the new P3D v4.4 options.

Maybe you can try to install MCX in another folder or so? Just to rule out it's placed on a faulty bit of diskspace or so now.
 
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Maybe it happens because i run it on admin or it to do something wrong with my windows but i will see no worrys
 
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Further looking into it Arno sorry its my new 970 evo doing this bsod randomly its not your fault and its not mine!
looks like the last power outage damaged the controller of the NVME drive.
ouch thats gonna cost me a lot probably :( :( :(
 
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Glad to hear you found out what causes it at least. Although never nice if components of the PC are failing :(
 
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especially super expensive ones with all of your scenery files (mine) :(
its not jut the money its the files too
 
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Hello Arno! I want to thank you for such a wonderful program MCX, which has become my indispensable assistant in the development! I can talk a lot about the positive qualities of your program, but I think that in this topic it would be better to talk about problems related to MCX.
And so, I have a question about the Ground Polygon Wizard. When I create ground runway polygons, I use the Ground Polygon Wizard, because it’s convenient to have layers in one file. But in the extreme version, for some reason I can’t get two layers in one file. Previously, this was not. Is this an unfinished test function or is it a feature of Prepar 4.4 itself?
Thanks in advance for the answer!
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Rustam46 said:
Hello Arno! I want to thank you for such a wonderful program MCX, which has become my indispensable assistant in the development! I can talk a lot about the positive qualities of your program, but I think that in this topic it would be better to talk about problems related to MCX.
And so, I have a question about the Ground Polygon Wizard. When I create ground runway polygons, I use the Ground Polygon Wizard, because it’s convenient to have layers in one file. But in the extreme version, for some reason I can’t get two layers in one file. Previously, this was not. Is this an unfinished test function or is it a feature of Prepar 4.4 itself?
Thanks in advance for the answer!
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Rustam, how i know, in P3D you should use negative Z-BIAS (in your case betonka5 = -8 and betonka3_alfa = -12)
 
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Hi,

For PBR materials it seems they should be positive again if you read the SDK.

Let me check what goes on here. I assume you mean that after reading the file back the values are not correct.
 
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