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Texture / material export issues

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Aquilla

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Hi;
It's been years since I have worked on anything to do with Flight sims. A while back I got into Blender and immediatly thought about my past plane projects hoping for a way to import them from Gmax. Long story short I took some time to get familiar with Blender and now that I have with help from the Flight Sim community I have successfully imported my Gmax projects into blender.
I've been doing some preliminary testing on exporting to FSX. There are a number of issues but I will cover one at a time.
This is how my export test file looks in blender.


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Looks good and ready for an update.

Now how it looks in the Flight Sim.


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I'm using Blender 3.6. Can't figure it out. The textures are the same ones the Gmax version of this plane uses in FSX with no issues. I've tried creating the MDL with Diffuse map only with the same results.
I look forward to any suggestions and will provide whatever more info is needed.

Thanks
Aquilla
 
Pyscen

Pyscen

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Hello...
It doesn't appear to be the textures. It looks like the troubled areas are pulling or being stretched. It is hard to tell but are the areas in quads?
 
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Aquilla

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I have converted the polys to quads so yes, but there are some triangles left.
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I have also tried isolating the faces.

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Pyscen

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The light blue lines need to be removed. They sharpen the edge lines. They most likely occurred from importing. Clear/ Remove them and smooth the faces that only need to be smooth while in edit mode.
 
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Aquilla

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You are correct that sharp edge lines happen during import. However I applied the ones in the pic above cause I want those edges to be sharp. It didn't work.
I tried your suggestion to smooth the appropriate polys in edit mode but that was ignored on export as well. Ultimately what worked was splitting the parts based on
"smooth groups" then rejoining them without merging the vertices. Not the method I prefer but it worked. My next challenge is going to be the bump map. Looks
great in Blender but creates bad shadows in FSX. I'm working on a theory.
 
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Brian Franklin

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I've also found that in some instances I still get left with aileron corners that look exactly like that. Using autosmooth fixes that but causes other problems with the object. Got round it by bursting the corner vertex into three separate vertices and placing them all back in the same location. Can then have a smoothed aileron or flap object.
 
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