• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSX Degenerate poly

Billsailaway27

Billsailaway27

Messages
85
Country
us-florida
Hi folks,

Got a problem.

When I try to export an object ig get this WARNING.

Degenerate poly detected in file (GMaxExport) mesh (Box01)
Face vertex 0x=0 y=-5.5 z=-0.5
Face vertex 1x=0 y=-5.5 z=-0.5
Face vertex 2x=3 y=-8.5 z=-1
Degenerate poly detected in file (GMaxExport) mesh (Box01)
Face vertex 0x=0 y=-5.5 z=-0.5
Face vertex 1x=3 y=-2E-06 z=0
Face vertex 2x=0 y=-5.5 z=-0.5
Degenerate poly detected in file (GMaxExport) mesh (Box01)
Face vertex 0x=0 y=29.99999 z=-30
Face vertex 1x=0 y=-0.004042 z=-30
Face vertex 2x=0 y=0.525054 z=-30

What does it mean???

I do get a MDL but when I create a BGL and place it using ADE9x, I get nothing.

What am I doing wrong, please help.

William
 
I tried a simple box. created an MDL, used Library creator to make the BGL, loaded into ADE9x and placed it in a scenry.... still get nothing.

Never had this trouble before.
 
Degenerate poly refers to colocated vertices, usually from scaling or editing vertices.

Simplest way to remove the warning is to select all vertice in the object, and Weld them -- making sure that it does not produce an unwanted effect.

It is a warning, not an error as such - that your MDL has redundant geometry. It will not stop it exporting.

There is some other reason that your model is not showing in sim.
 
Hi,
had the same problem today, when I started to convert my FS9 GMax models into FSX. Here are few steps you should check, it solved my problem:

- Make sure to have the regional settings of your windows set to US with a dot "." as a sepperator. That solves the degenerate Poly.

- make sure the scenery folder, where you extract the bgs files from ADE is activated in the FSX Library.

-make sure your new libraray .bgl is in that scenery folder.

- make sure the textures are in the right folder and activated together with the bgls. If the choosen textures are not available for FSX, FSX displays a transparent object and so it`s invisible. FS9 made it grey before, when textures are not in place.
 
To get rid of a degenerate poly error you simply weld all polys. But sometimes re welding does not work because you have extra polygon layers that are not needed and the polys can't weld. So once you locate these extra polygons simply remove them then re weld the polys. Now your error is gone.
 
The thread is not dead, Igor, it moved! Lol

A degenerate poly might have vertices 5 miles apart but it's still degenerate because they're in a straight line. Look at the third error message above and you'll see the coordinates have two values identical in each set. That means they're on the same straight line: it's a triangle Jim, but not as we know it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top