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MSFS24 Import/define livery for aircraft

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Hi,

I might be missing something obvious, but can't figure it out.

My goal is to make a livery and use ModelConverterX as a viewport so I don't have to load MSFS to make small tweaks. I can import a plane into ModelCoverterX just fine.

However, some of them will not load textures. I will get a bunch of "failed to load texture" error messages (which seems to reference path where the package building developer had their plane saved...) and because the way that MSFS handles liveries, I can't select a different one either.

I tried opening aircraft.cfg, but of the custom liveries, it contains a relative path in the virtual filesystem of MSFS which of course didn't actually lead to the xml I wanted. If I do the same with the main file, then a similar result happens as in case of loading the model directly, except of course I get the same bunch of errors for the interior.

Missing texture finder does not seem to help.
 
Hi,

Which version of ModelConverterX are you using? I did improve support for livery packages a few months ago. Are you using a recent development release?
 
Do you have an example of how the livery package is structured? I mainly tested with the MSFS default aircraft and how their liveries are done, but maybe this one has a slightly different structure.
 
The plane is your run of the mill plane with simobjects/airplanes/xyz/ folders in package, then theres a model.something and texture.other and aircraft.cfg file

I can either open the aircraft.cfg and load both exterior and interior, or the model.xml only for the exterior. Either way MCX will attempt to load the paths hardbaked(?) into materials that's specific to the authors PC, not even the MSFS VFS path. And fails

I attach the log to show you how it looks.

The one workaround I found is to use material editor and replace the references. It will still not like ktx2 files, but that's fine, it's actually faster to work with PNG at this stage.
 

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Is this a package I can download and test with somewhere?

It might be that ModelConverterX does not handle this situation correctly, I haven't seen glTF files with full paths before. Maybe I only need to take the filename in that case.
 
It's the JustFlight Fokker that was just released. I can try and check a few free ones to see if I see the same thing
 
Just to note that I tried another (also commercial) plane and that loaded the textures fine. so it's a JustFlight issue.

However, the Livery dropdown is still not properly populated. Nonetheless it uses the modular livery thing that was introduced in 2024 which has texture in a separate model file, which is something I am not really willing to entertain now, so I close the book on this at this time.
 
Also sounds like ModelConverterX might still not support the way MSFS 2024 can do this completely. So if somebody comes across a default or free model with that structure , please let me know so that I can test it.

If you load a livery package it usually only contains one livery, so the dropdown livery list does not have to be filled in that case.
 
The easiest (and best?) way would be to be able to select a texture folder manually. Then I know that I get what I want without having to try and faff around
 
You can modify the texture search path so that it includes a specific folder, but that is not really user friendly to have to change that every time.

I think supporting the livery packages properly is probably the best way to go. So if anybody can point me to a model that does not work I can analyse why.
 
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