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Problems with Textures

mcenroe

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I’ve taken over a half-finished airplane project from a friend that I’d like to continue working on. However, just looking over the project has already raised a few questions and issues. If anyone with SDK experience would be kind enough to give me some advice, that would be really great.

The main problem right now is that the textures can't be found in the simulator. The console displays an error message stating that the textures at the path ../textures/filename.dds cannot be found. However, the path exists (in simobjects/airplanes) and the textures are present.

What could be the problem here? Are the textures actually (also?) assigned in the model files, or only in the XML/config files?
 
Im not 100% sure what you mean when you say the textures 'exist' in "(in simobjects/airplanes)"
the xx.PNG textures should end up being pushed by blender into the "Simobjects/Airplanes/<someAircraftFolderName>/texture" folder (msfs2020)
you should not have dds textures in the sdk's PackageSources folder
its Not ../textures it should be ../texture without the s

its not enough to manually 'copy' them to the sdk location- you want blender to 'push' them there (as png's)

"What could be the problem here? Are the textures actually (also?) assigned in the model files, or only in the XML/config files?"
Yes they are physically written in the .gltf model file using relative path
the sdk is reading the gltf model file for these texture locations so it must be written into that model file correctly on blender export

Blender needs to use png for input, the sdk also uses these png textures as input to Convert to xx.dds as it compiles the model and textures
 
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tgibson said:
Which sim?
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MSFS 2020

EzRyder said:
"What could be the problem here? Are the textures actually (also?) assigned in the model files, or only in the XML/config files?"
Yes they are physically written in the .gltf model file using relative path
the sdk is reading the gltf model file for these texture locations so it must be written into that model file correctly on blender export

Blender needs to use png for input, the sdk also uses these png textures as input to Convert to xx.dds as it compiles the model and textures
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Ok, thanks for that info. is there any plugin or tool that reads gltf - files with dds textures from msfs?
 
mcenroe said:
MSFS 2020



Ok, thanks for that info. is there any plugin or tool that reads gltf - files with dds textures from msfs?
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yes there are some apps that read these, paint.net and nvidia texture tools specifically
adobe photoshop has an nvidia texture tools plugin so it can be used with that as well

you must convert them to png to assign, edit or export them from blender

Asobo gives us the plugin we need for blender, it allows us to assign these PBR png textures in blender and export them correctly
The SDK is what Converts or Compiles these png textures into the Custom DDS files the game uses

The Blender Plugin

docs.flightsimulator.com docs.flightsimulator.com

I use this freeware utility for working with single dds files directly- it supports all the dds texture formats msfs uses 'out of the box' by default
www.paint.net

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
www.paint.net www.paint.net
ALBD - .DDS - BC1 (Linear, DXT1) [can also use BC7]
ALBD (Blurred) - .DDS - BC3 (Linear, DXT5)
COMP - .DDS - BC7 (Linear, DX 11+)
NORM - .DDS - BC5 (Linear, Signed)

I also use this set of scripts to do batch conversion, but it does take some setup and file editing
flightsim.to

MSFS Textures Toolbox - MSFS Add-on - Flightsim.to

✓ For Microsoft Flight Simulator: A comprehensive toolbox for MSFS texture management, allowing for seamless PNG to DDS conversions and handling of composite files. Utilizes "Compressonator CLI" and "imagemagick" for efficient texture processing. Includes scripts...
flightsim.to flightsim.to
 
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