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    Question about loading initial aircraft

    Is there a simple way to set specific variables when the aircraft loads. For example, aircraft always loads with Nav Lights ON but Wing Lights OFF I'd like to set both to be in sync with one another but so far I've been unsuccessful. Any help.. greatly appreciated. Thanks
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    Blender2FSX/P3D (v0.9.5 onwards)

    Rob, That did it! Many thanks
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    Blender2FSX/P3D (v0.9.5 onwards)

    Hello Manochvarma Love this tool - much thanks. I believe I have found a bug concerning Visibility Tags. It seems that I am unable to see all the visibility tags when using this tool. I don't think they are missing because I can type a letter in the dropdown page and a missing tag will...
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    How to remove flickering created from normal maps on spinning items

    Curious if anyone knows how to address this issue that's been bothering me for a while. How do you get rid of the flickering that is caused on spinning items that have a normal/bump map? For example a wheel hub or tire that has a spinning animation. The flickering would be casued by the...
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    some questions on UV unwrapping and textures

    I've noticed that when creating UV maps for my mesh that the direction of the mesh seems to affect how the object is shaded in the sim. So if I rotate the UV map 180 degrees or flip/ mirror the UV map of a particular mesh, I get some funky shading. Is there a specific methodology or just...
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    Some help with Fuel Selector bug

    After some further tinkering, looks like what was causing my bug was that my two mdl files were not using the same code. I was only updating my interior model while the exterior model was from a previous compile. Thanks all for all the great feedback
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    Some help with Fuel Selector bug

    That did the trick Vitus... Many thanks!
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    Some help with Fuel Selector bug

    Thanks Roman for the reply. I tried your code but no luck. The Selector and LVAR are both set to Off but upon startup, engine is always on and and draws from Center2. I did attempt to load the aircraft from the select aircraft menu dropdown and all seems to be working as intended, just not...
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    Some help with Fuel Selector bug

    So I have a simple fuel selector gauge animated and coded along with a visual tag to initiate the selector but keep seeing this bug. The fuel draw upon loading the aircraft always comes from my center 2 tank regardless of the position of the selector. Only after I mouse click and change...
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    Question about default vclight effect

    curious to know if the fx_vclight.fx effect file can be attached to a 3D object and work as in the .cfg.
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    Help with 3-way Switch

    Thanks Roman.. found the bugger..one of the brackets was a parenthesis
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    Help with 3-way Switch

    I'm attempting to create a 3 way spring back gauge switches between volts and amps and could sure use some help. Animation works fine but the needle is not responding correctly. Any thoughts, greatly appreciated. Wally <PartInfo> <Name>volt_ammeter_switch</Name>...
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    Piston 2 Stage Supercharger Help and Suggestions

    I've been reading about some of the limitations with Super and Turbochargers. I want to try modeling a two stage supercharger in FSX/P3D v3.4 with a lever in the VC to control each stage ( high, low, neutral). Hoping for some thoughts on how to do this. Simconnect? XMLTools? I feel like I'm...
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    Any way to have effects visible at specific viewing angles?

    Yes.. trying to create an approach light on the aircraft wing. Red yellow green.
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    Any way to have effects visible at specific viewing angles?

    Curious if there is a way to create effects like lights that only show up at specific viewing angles.
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    Help with Export Error Blender to P3Dv.3

    Hi Doug, The Filename is pretty basic. projectengine3.blend ( no special characters). I am using the correct XtoMDL (in this case P3d v3.4 in the sdk) Total Project has 91K Vertices spread across different textures. I didn't try exporting to 3ds yet but found one of my objects had too high of...
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    Help with Export Error Blender to P3Dv.3

    Working on a project and been getting this error off and on... meaning sometimes it will compile and others it will not.. which I find to be extremely strange. The project is pretty large (30MB mdl file, 90K vertices). It feels like I'm reaching the limit of what the XtoMDL compiler can handle...
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    Help with animation flicker on spinner and wheels

    I have a solution. Thank you for the feed back. The issue was the UVmap on my spinner. I reset the UV map to a 128x128 texture material and all is good for the moment.
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    Help with animation flicker on spinner and wheels

    I'm working on a new model and having some issues with what looks like shadow or texture flicker on fast rotating animations specifically on spinner and wheels. Not sure what is causing this. Texture, UVmapping? Any help suggestion greatly appreciated. Objects are solid and not...
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    Help with 3D gauge

    Well I've been trying my hand at making a 3D altimeter gauge and having a heck of a time getting the kollsman knob, disk and altimiter needles to work in sinc. I'm using the stock modeldef entries for knob_kohlsman (0-360)) and cylinder_kohlsman (0-340) but cant get them working properly. Any...
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