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Hi All,

I am a scenery person usually not Aircraft person, but have found a few source files on the net of some old models that i wanted to ''do'' up....

Is there anyway to convert or export the fsds files from FSDS into GMAX?

I have both programs installed but prefer working with GMAX, i see FSDS can only export as a .Xfile. Any other ways like a 3ds.file and so on please?

Any help is appreciated...

Thanks
 
Not a problem, have now found a way, the only issue i have now, is that GMAX cannot export the file to a .MDL, i have a warning saying, '' (MAKEMDL was not found or failed to convert the model specified in C'''''''''''''''' to a .MDL file, check your system path to ensure MakeMDL is on it....) Which it is, do i get this as there are small parts on the model?

Please help..
 
Have found the problem....... It is with the WHOLE tail section which when deleted it exports all alright..

But, i don't have the skills to create a new one...

Any thoughts please?
 
Hey Southwest,

Sounds like you had a Scale Error possibly in the tail assembly. Why not redownload it and try selecting the parts of the tail and hit Hierarchy tab/then 'Reset Scale' at the bottom. Also, try resetting the X-Form at the far right tab (right of Hierarchy Tab). That should then get the tail section to be proper.

On making a plane, well.. Thats where we all have to learn. Some start making parts with basic elemental shapes like cylinders. Just move the Vertice dots around with Scale and Move. I would squeeze and scale the rings of a cylinder, section at a time. now I create them in Splines, then put a skin (surface) over them.


Bill
 
Ah, thanks, that seems to have done the trick....

I was looking at a few video tutorials on sites like Youtube which use the method you suggested, looks fairly easy to do, but expect there is more to do than that.

Anyway, kinds regads for the help.
 
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