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MCX GlTF UV Export Issue + Grouping of objects

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Hello @arno and all!

Foremost, thank you for this priceless tool!

I found a batch convert wizard and it does work a treat for converting/exporting! I guess my question now is: Is there a way to have these objects laid out the way they are in the sim? What I mean is, is there a way to stage the airport within MCX or Blender to see where all the pieces of the puzzle go?

My other question is, I'm converting/exporting these objects into Blender as GLTF's, however I find myself having to edit the UV as they're either mirrored incorrectly, but not always consistently. While this is no biggie having to manually edit them, it sure would be a time saver if there was a way around this.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Hi,
peacefarm said:
I found a batch convert wizard and it does work a treat for converting/exporting! I guess my question now is: Is there a way to have these objects laid out the way they are in the sim? What I mean is, is there a way to stage the airport within MCX or Blender to see where all the pieces of the puzzle go?
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You could use the Scene builder wizard to make one big object from all the individual objects based on the placement lat/lon. Is that what you are looking for? But normally that is something you would only do in the sim, as for the performance it is better to have a scenery consist of separate objects.
peacefarm said:
My other question is, I'm converting/exporting these objects into Blender as GLTF's, however I find myself having to edit the UV as they're either mirrored incorrectly, but not always consistently. While this is no biggie having to manually edit them, it sure would be a time saver if there was a way around this.
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The UV coordinates should be OK, else in the simulator it would also not show correctly. Is it with a specific texture format that you experience these issues? When exporting to Blender I typically use PNG files for the textures.
 
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Hi,

You could use the Scene builder wizard to make one big object from all the individual objects based on the placement lat/lon. Is that what you are looking for? But normally that is something you would only do in the sim, as for the performance it is better to have a scenery consist of separate objects.

The UV coordinates should be OK, else in the simulator it would also not show correctly. Is it with a specific texture format that you experience these issues? When exporting to Blender I typically use PNG files for the textures.
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Hello Arno!

Thank you for the prompt reply.

I will have a go at that wizard. Ideally I would like MCX to compile one large object file with everything where it needs to be and rotated, etc. I’d then like to import that single file into Blender and separate the objects as I need to. This would save me the step of having to arrange tens of objects by hand while cross referencing to see where they are placed in relation to each other.

As for the UV issue, I’m sure you’re right. I’m sticking the converted gltf’s into the folder with all the DDS’s of the project for quick load in Blender but perhaps this is causing the issue? What would be an efficient workflow to batch convert an entire modellib.bgl and its lot of DDS textures to PNG and objects to GLTF? I used the batch conversion wizard for the models, but don’t know how to convert the textures to PNG. Your help would be much appreciated!
 
peacefarm said:
I will have a go at that wizard. Ideally I would like MCX to compile one large object file with everything where it needs to be and rotated, etc. I’d then like to import that single file into Blender and separate the objects as I need to. This would save me the step of having to arrange tens of objects by hand while cross referencing to see where they are placed in relation to each other.
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That's exactly what you can do with the Scene builder wizard.
peacefarm said:
As for the UV issue, I’m sure you’re right. I’m sticking the converted gltf’s into the folder with all the DDS’s of the project for quick load in Blender but perhaps this is causing the issue? What would be an efficient workflow to batch convert an entire modellib.bgl and its lot of DDS textures to PNG and objects to GLTF? I used the batch conversion wizard for the models, but don’t know how to convert the textures to PNG. Your help would be much appreciated!
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It might be that Blender can't handle the MSFS DDS files correctly, I never tried that. MSFS and X-Plane also use different origin for the DDS files, I am not sure which convention Blender uses.
In the batch converter you can also add a step that converts the textures to a different format and saves them to a specific folder. So it should be quite easy to have them all converted to PNG before you go into Blender.
 
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