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Combining objects

mchirkov

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Hi Arno,

I have tried to merge 2 objects today after one of them was already merged out of 2.

I got the following error:
Duplicated file lables found with name: RIFF-MDLD-REFL-REFP_MCX_CURCOR_end

Everything looks correct to me but nevertheless I cannot save the combined file.

Any idea what is going on?

Thanks
Mike
 
Hi,

Sounds like it could be related with attachpoints in the object. I'll give it a try to see if I can reproduce it.
 
Hi,

Haven't had the time yet. I was in Paris for my work the last few days.
 
Hi,

I have fixed the problem that duplicate attachpoint names could be created while merging. So with the development release of tomorrow it should not happen anymore.
 
Hi Folks

Arno -
Mean't to ask about this a while ago, (along with some other bits)
but been away from home dealing with family matters.

On the matter of duplicate attachpoints -

Been using MCX as a preview tool
whilst I was re-texturing a series of FSDS models,
which contain old ASM light effects.

Happened to accidentally click & display the "shadow model".

Noticed that all the ex-ASM attachpoints
were now being duplicated into the "shadow model"

Has that always been the case ?
Was/Is it intentional ?

HTH
ATB
Paul
 
Hi Paul,

What do you mean with shadow model? Did you click the button to show the shadow. That only renders the shadow, not additional attachpoints.
 
Not sure, I'll try to reproduce what you are seeing.
 
Hi,

I do not know if this is something that went wrong in MCX or not because I never had this problem.
I did try to merge several mdl's a couple of times but for a specific reason.
Arno then suggested I'd add the second, third etc. mdl as a LOD variant.
So, if you are not using 'lodded' mdl's, you could add the second one as a LOD 99, the third one as a 98 LOD, etc.
My LOD 100 did not have the attached objects but the others did and it worked fine.
Mention this just for info, you never know what it is good for:).

PS: I suppose you are talking about FSX?
 
Hi Folks
arno said:
What do you mean with shadow model?
Did you click the button to show the shadow.
That only renders the shadow, not additional attachpoints.
Click to expand...
Arno -
Yes - I'd accidentally clicked the button to show the shadow.
It did show "shadow model" attachpoints,
each exactly matching their equivalent positions in the "visual model"

My apologies Arno,
for my original post's misleading information.

On revisiting our models in MCX
the shadow-model's duplicated attachpoints issue
was only present in our original un-edited G-Max source versions.

i.e.
They must have compiled by our G-Max modeler, (and not by any MCX recompilations).

Again my apologies Arno. :o

HTH
ATB
Paul
 
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Hi Paul,

No problem. I'll still try to check what is going on, because no attachpoints should be rendered for the shadow.
 
I have to apoligize too, the effect problem have nothing to do with the shadow issue, It was that the effect have values in the offset section. the effect was made with fx editor from sdk, and assign an offset value, why don't know, but happy to know where was the mistery.anyway this had a very strange behaviour.
 
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