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FS2004 and Sketchup

Bruno.B

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Good Morning Arno,
please can you tell me if I can use Google Sketchup with FS9 ?
Thank You.....Bruno
 
Using Sketchup requires the use of ModelConverterX... and that allows Fs2004 MDLs to be made... So yes, Sketchup can be a means to FS9 objects.

Dick
 
Hi,

As Dick already said the answer is yes. You will also need the FS2004 MakeMDL SDK, since ModelConverterX uses MakeMDL to create the MDL files for you. After that you can use them in your scenery like any MDL object.
 
Hi Dick and Arno,
thank you for the quick reply.I have your excellent ModelConverterX,so I need only of FS2004 MakeMDL SDK.Well….please can I submit another question ? I created a new Lipy(Ancona)airport with Instant scenery.It is completed but very frame killer;so I identified one by one (a long job)from the libraries the textures used,with the help of LOM and BGLXLM.Now I am converting those Bmp textures into DDS files with DXTBmp [flipping image (without alpha ?) and converting].Is it the right way to reduce the frames impact of the scenery ?Are there any other steps to follow ?
 
Framerates are usually impacted by the number of drawcalls... if you import these objects into ModelConverterX, you will be able to view the number of drawcalls of each object, and find the ones that are causing the most problems.

Generally, changing the type of texture won't help, and often will cause problems.

Dick
 
I know which objects are causing the problem:what have I to do to reduce their impact ?
 
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