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3DS .max design into FSX

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Well guys I am flying at a flight school and I wanted to make my scenery look like my airfield. I got permission from the school to get in touch with their architect and got their new building in five different file formats, including .fbx, .lwo, .lxo, .mtl and .obj.

I'd like to put it into FSX at my house. How the heck do I do this? I noticed the .x to .mdl conversion tool and I downloaded the Panda .x export tool and used it to create a .x file within 3DS (I have a trial version). I'm no programmer so I have no idea how to make the xtomdl.exe thingy work. Am I screwed?
 
Hi,

OBJ and MTL file extensions sound like Wavefront OBJ. You can try to load this OBJ file in my ModelConverterX tool. Then from the tool you can export it directly to a MDL or BGL file.
 
Thanks Arno. I tried using the .obj and I got this error message using your tool.

"An error occured during importing the selected file

Message:
An item with the same key has already been added.

StackTrace:
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(TKey key, TValue value, Boolean add)
at ASToFra.OBJReader.ReadMtlLib(String filename)
at ASToFra.OBJReader.Read(String filename)
at ASToFra.ObjectReader.read(String fileName)
at ASToFra.MainWindow.bwImporter_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)"
 
Hi,

It sounds like a bug in my tool. I don't know how big your file is, but if you can send it to me for debugging I can probably fix it.
 
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