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what is the limit?

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What I'm trying to do is produce some good quality static aircraft out of
some mdl source files mainly for FS2002 found on various places. When i remove whatever the FSDS 3 asks me to, I manage to produce a scenery model file + associated xml, even the compilation to bgl works out fine - till I want to see the new beautyfully looking static aircraft in the simulation, since it never loads. The ACOF or FS9 chrashes, or better freezes at the start of scenery files loading.

The only file that worked had a bgl size of 64kb, the next smallest one that already freezes the sim has 152kb already. First of all I'd like to know if my suspitions about the size are correct and if they are, does aybody know what is the maximum size that would work?
 
Hi,

160 kB does not sound very large for a scenery object. I have scenery objects that are bigger than that. So I don't expect that the size is the problem. Are you sure that you compiled them as scenery MDL files?
 
I can get very specific about this matter, since it really puzzles me:
FSDS v3, downloaded this file: http://andrejdro.dyndns.org/dloads/ac/lance/PA32R_300.zip
When importing into FSDS3, all preprocesses and animations removed,
deleted propeller disc, moved upwards and rotated, so that all of
the tires are 1 inch above the Y axis, design units changed to metric, saved, compiled a SCENERY model file, got
the mdl and xml file without a problem, compiling with bglcomp went fine, resulting bgl freezes the sim once installed in the scenery.
Next try the same fsc was exported as an .x file and compiled with makemdl
from the Microsoft SDK ignoring warnings, bad normals and bad triggers enabled, also got a scenery mdl object flawlessly, compiled a bgl with bglcomp with no problem, interestingly enough, the bgl's are not the same size, but also the bgl made this way freezes the sim.

Maybe some other member of this forums wants to give it a try?
 
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Hi,

Try to rename the rudder part, that seemed to solve most of the trouble for me. When it is named "rudder" some code ends up in the MDL object that is only valid for aircraft MDL files.
 
:p GEEE I would have never thought that naming of parts could have made
any difference - but it does. It works now. Thanks Arno - You're da MAN:wizard:
 
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