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Problem reading SAMM MDL

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arno said:
This is probably the last update to Library Creator XML as a separate tool. I am planning to integrate it into ModelConverterX in the future. This will allow me to add features like previewing of objects.
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Unfortunately the current version of Model Converter X doesn't correctly read the .mdl files produced by SAMM, but Library Creater XML will correctly add them to a library.
 
Golf-HotelDelta said:
Unfortunately the current version of Model Converter X doesn't correctly read the .mdl files produced by SAMM, but Library Creater XML will correctly add them to a library.
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Let me take a look at that, it should read FS2004/FSX style scenery MDL files correctly. Do you maybe have a sample I can debug?
 
Attached is an example where the tail rotor is misplaced and the wheels are missing:



This is what it should look like:

 
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Hi George,

I have found part of the bug. The development release of tomorrow will show the tailrotor correct and also the wheels are there. Just the front wheels seems to still have a small offset, I'll try to find that bug tomorrow.

Btw: I must say this is a funny MDL file. It looks like it is a FS2002/FS2004 aircraft MDL file, which a FS2004 scenery MDL structure wrapped around it.
 
arno said:
Btw: I must say this is a funny MDL file. It looks like it is a FS2002/FS2004 aircraft MDL file, which a FS2004 scenery MDL structure wrapped around it.
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I thought I had explained, it is a scenery model created from an FS8/9 aircraft model by Don Govestine's SAMM program. The original mdl starts with "RIFF.. MDL8MDL".

Model Converter X cannot open the original aircraft model.
 
Yes, I understood that. But I expected that samm would make a mdl that is more similar to the normal fs2004 scenery mdl.

I am still working on the modelconverterx aircraft mdl reader. It works for some models, but not yet for all indeed.
 
I have moved this discussion to its own thread now, let me see if I can fix the bug with the wheels.
 
Hi George,

The model now imports fine into ModelConverterX, some animation tables were not read correctly. So the wheels and also the stairs are now showing fine.

It fix is available in the development release already.
 

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Thanks Arno, that mod fixed it.

Another conversion:

 
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