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Saving to OBJ format?

mchirkov

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Hi Arno,

I am trying to convert an airport terminal from FSX BGL file into X-plane 10 OBJ format. What happens is that upon conversion by FSX2Xplane utility the terminal is split in several objects each having their own texture assigned.

Now when I load the terminal building in X-plane I see that some of the roof textures don't look right - upon such a conversion the double-sided property on some of the textures is lost for unknown reason. When I load those parts into the MDC I get to change the texture property to double sided and then I move on to export those parts back to OBJ format.

As a result I get 2 files with MTL and OBJ extension. The problem is when I go back to XP10 and load the corrected building with airport the sim gives me the error with those 'amended' files and then doesn't display them at all.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Mike
 
Hi Mike,

I was travelling for my work, so I did not read the forum for a few days.

ModelConverterX can only export to Wavefront OBJ at the moment, not to X-Plane OBJ. Although both have the same extension, the formats are very different.

Adding export support for X-Plane is on my todo list. The main reason I did not yet implement it is that X-Plane only allows one texture per model. That approach would not work for most FS models. They would have to be split in many different objects (as your other converter does).
 
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