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FSX Texture cannot be shown,gray aircraft.

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My DC3 was totally gray.
Here is what I had done :
1, open Douglas_DC3.max which was included in SDK with 3DMAX. Everything was looked great.
2,exported model as MDL
3,put Douglas_DC3.MDL into right place instead of orginal“Douglas_DC3.MDL” (FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\Douglas_DC3\model\)


But the “new” DC3 was gray, not black. I checked the name of textures and texture.cfg immediately, and nothing was found.



Test:
1 According to SDK, add the following line to FSX.cfg:
[Scenery]
ShowMissingTextureAlert=1
When textures was missing, I would receive some warnings.
2 deleting all textures
3 no warning came out. It is strange, isn’t?
So maybe I can say that, there were no textures info stored in ”MDL”,and something wrong with my “mdl”, but what can I do?




About environment: 3DMAX 8 SP2;VISTA;FSX;FSX SDK with SP2
 
adding info

Another important thing:
Original “Douglas_DC3.MDL” is: 5589 KB.
My “Douglas_DC3.MDL”is only: 617 KB.
PS: Animations is fine.



What I also had done:
Exported “Douglas_DC3.max” to “Douglas_DC3.x”,then converted to “Douglas_DC3.mdl” manually with “XToMdl.exe”
:(
 
jiongjiong said:
What I also had done:
Exported “Douglas_DC3.max” to “Douglas_DC3.x”,then converted to “Douglas_DC3.mdl” manually with “XToMdl.exe”
:(
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That is the correct method. The "export MDL" was never completed and should be ignored.
 
n4gix said:
That is the correct method. The "export MDL" was never completed and should be ignored.
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command line:
……\SDK\Environment Kit\Modeling SDK\3DSM7\Plugins>XToMdl.exe /xanim /dict:..\..\bin\modeldef.xml Douglas_DC3.X



what I got was a 620K mdl.I'm quit sure that it cannot be worked well.
:confused:
 
Did you "Export" or "Export Selected"?

I just loaded the SDK DC3 and exported from Max9:

Code: 
 Directory of E:\Max Projects\FSX Models\export

04/28/2010  11:40 AM         2,082,286 MyDC3.MDL
04/28/2010  11:39 AM         3,033,078 MyDC3.X
04/28/2010  11:39 AM           116,510 MyDC3.xanim

As you can see, the .X file was ~3MB, the compiled .mdl is ~2MB.
 
n4gix said:
Did you "Export" or "Export Selected"?

I just loaded the SDK DC3 and exported from Max9:

Code: 
 Directory of E:\Max Projects\FSX Models\export

04/28/2010  11:40 AM         2,082,286 MyDC3.MDL
04/28/2010  11:39 AM         3,033,078 MyDC3.X
04/28/2010  11:39 AM           116,510 MyDC3.xanim

As you can see, the .X file was ~3MB, the compiled .mdl is ~2MB.
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Thanks N4gix

this is mine:
Douglas_DC3.x 2128k
Douglas_DC3.xanim 113k


what exactly mean"Export or Export Selected"?
I did these In 3dmax8:
file----export----(choose type)flightsim model----save
 
another way I had tried:
3dmax8-----Aces tool----exportLOD----(export tools)pitch on(or not,that's just the same) everything----export this max file


How did you get 3M .x file ,Mr.N4gix.
 
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jiongjiong said:
what exactly mean"Export or Export Selected"?
I did these In 3dmax8:
file----export----(choose type)flightsim model----save
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Export - will use all objects when exporting

Export Selected - only exports selected (highlighted) objects

When using either option, do NOT choose the .mdl format!

Use only the "Flightsim X file" option!
 
n4gix said:
Export - will use all objects when exporting

Export Selected - only exports selected (highlighted) objects

When using either option, do NOT choose the .mdl format!

Use only the "Flightsim X file" option!
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I used "Export",absolutely not "Export Selected".
As your mention,I tried "export selected" after "ctrl+A" ,nothing changed.
 
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