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Shadows and harddecks

Jakes

Jakes

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Hi there,

I am using Sketchup to draw a harbour, and use ModelconverterX to MDL and Library Creator to BGL, and then I place the model with AirportDesign Editor ( The harbour have heli pads)
the model are loading fine in Fs2004, but:
1) no shadows are casted on the model. Is there a way to correct this?
2) The object is not landable, is there a way to make the object hard?

Cheers,

Jakes
 
Modelconvertex is your answer,it can make any flat surface landable, in the attach tool, pretty cool :), better choose to harden by material, the fact you have not shadows is because the surface is not hardened. Take care when making so, because places like harbours or ports have problem with the bouding box and crash bounding, how to say, one get a little complicated crash bounding box that make you usually crash when landing, moreover if there is many objects around. the crashing boxs cross all over the scenery then. but usually you will have not problems. I have only one or two of thats issues only.
 
I found the tools option and the attach object editor, but my platform function is disable. Could it be because of the textures I have applied?

any help will be appreciated!

Thank you
 
Hi,

The platform function should always work. Which version of ModelConverterX are you using? In the latest development release you will find the auto-platform function that can add a platform very easily. See this Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wmKWCoysY
 
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