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FS2004 Problem with SU & MDLTweaker II

Sidney Schwartz

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I made a simple object in SU and converted it to mdl using MCX. I then tried to use MDLtweaker II to add the "rotate to user" function. MDLtweak did not preview the object in its proper orientation when it read it in, and the resulting mdl exported from MDLtweak displayed upside down in FS9. I did some experimenting and found that MDLtweak would correctly preview any mdl that I'd exported from Gmax, but would not correctly preview any mdl that I'd made with SU and converted with MCX.

While we're on the subject, Arno, I was thinking that it would be nice to incorporate some of the MDLtweak options into MCX.

I have v2.0.266 of tweaker.
 
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Hi,

MDLTweaker II has indeed be made to rely a lot on how GMax makes the MDL files. With ModelConverterX I have used more knowledge about how the formats work and it is more flexible. That probably means that ModelConverterX makes the MDL slightly different from GMax. That is not a problem for FS2004, it can read both. But MDLTweaker II does not like that. I am afraid I can't fix that easily.

About merging the features. I would love to, but in ModelConverterX I am using MakeMDL to make the MDL files. MDLTweaker is more a kind of post-processing to do things that MakeMDL can not do. So that makes it hard to merge them. But maybe in the future I can add some of the functions as post processing to ModelConverterX as well.
 
Thanks for the explaination, Arno. I prefer SU, but I can alway use Gmax for situations like this. :)
 
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