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SODE using FSDS

robystar

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Hi,

I am probably rather dumb in this respect, but is FSDS compatible with SODE? In other words, has SODE thought about the FSDS crowd and how to use those scenery objects with SODE?
I can see a lot of references to 3DS, Blender, etc. but no references to FSDS or Gmax.
Tks,
 
Well, you need to be more precise: SODE in general or just the jetway design part?
In general, as long as your modelling tool spits out a mdl file, then SODE can use it for various applications (seasonal objects, etc).
For the jetway design part, to make life much easier, I have written a maxscript that basically does all the animation for you. This obviously only works for 3dsmax and gmax. Since SODE is a one-man show, I don't have the time and capability to learn another new scripting language like python (Blender) and also support FSDS. I don't even know if FSDS supports scripting.
In theory, it is of course possible to manually create and rig a jetway, just like you would do this for default CTRL+J jetways (IK-Jetways).

I'll leave the porting of my maxscripts to the scripting language for those other 3d modelling tools to the more knowledgeable people in the community that use those tools.

Brgds
 
I don't think FSDS supports skin and bone animations, so making a jetway in it would be out of the question already :). It also has no scripting, although you can make plugins for it.
 
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