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Introduction

Here are a coupe of my humble, grimmly simple homes I made for FS. Nothing compared to your very well done homes and buildings.

Maybe a simple mesh, but excellent textures which gives exactly the impression which is needed! One look and the first idea is they must be at the Toscana :-)

Y[...]maybe don't like how your object lose quality but it's a flight sim what you have to get is a good airplane[...]

Quality isn't always a high detailed mesh and a high resolution texture. Quality is defined by it's purpose. And the level of detail which makes sense for autogen and scenery objects is what I am interested in. What sense makes it, if I can peep through the keyhole of a house and I never come close enough to see it? It's simply a waste of performance.

[...]That is the direction scenery seems to be taking, realistic grass, photo ground scenery, photo real buildings and architecture.[...]

Would be nice if the engine can handle this. I remember that a long time ago I build an quite high detailed airport using some very detailed objects from a library. But every time the airport comes into the vicinity of my plane the frame rates dropped dramatically and the simulation (still FS9) runs anything else but smooth. And what does a flightsim pilot loves more than stutters at the final approach :-)


Now I have some practical questions. I have plugged an old hard disk to my system where my old 3dsMax 2009 Design installation is on and I tried to prepare it for the usage with FSX SDK. I understand, that I have to add to the system paths a link to

...\SDK\Environment Kit\Modeling SDK\3DSM9\Plugins

or if I want to use Prepar3D

...\Prepar3D\Environment Kit\Modeling SDK\3DSM9\Plugins

I tried both but it does not work. I alway get a bunch of error messages:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/339/errorixn.jpg/

Any idea?

Mick!

Edit:

Found the solution by myself, some minor changes in the ini by hand. But it seems that 3ds Max 2009 works only with the Prepar3D-SDK.

So I tried one of my objects.

- Export from Max to a *.flt file
- open it with ModelConverterX (thank you Arno for this marvelous tool!) and the Convert and Place Object Wizzard
- Copy the files into AddonScenery

And here is the result: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/268/watertower.jpg/

At this stage the tower is still an overkill object (6761 polygons, 4096x4096 texture), but yeah it works!

Mick!
 
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Congrats, seem you have got your way to go, with the Fsx sdk you can just work with Max7 even Max9 have problems, very good the way you export to .flt files, courious ¡ I didn't know Fsx worked with such a textures, 4096 x 4096, :D, talking about performances and resolutions, I have just seen the ship titanic from Hama, and I making a ship that belong to the same year, the mine is giving problems of vertices limit, it's without textures and less details is having the very same amount of vertice that the Titanic ¡¡ .:confused::D and what is worst the mine have 67,09 mts long¡:D
 
The process of creating the mesh was quite easy, but don't ask me how long it took to find, create and apply the textures.

As a fellow 3D modeler, I know this too well. :D


So very 20s. Don't forget to add a Cafe Achteck to the portfolio at one point.:D

To be perfectly honest though, in terms of technology, I much prefer the 30s with all the cool stuff around. Schienenzeppelins, Fliegende Hamburger, E93s, BR 01s, BR 05s and, the pinnacle of coolness on rails before WW2, the E18/19.
(Bill O., look them up. You're gonna love the designs!)


I hope for you, that you like it being back here!

No other city compares in terms of historical value, so yes, I like it very much...if it wasn't for all the tourists (avoidable if you stay away from the city centre) and stuck-up Swabians and Swiss (avoidable if you mostly go out at night), it would even better. ;)
 
...Found the solution by myself, some minor changes in the ini by hand. But it seems that 3ds Max 2009 works only with the Prepar3D-SDK.

The only difference between the FSX and P3D SDK with regards to Max2009 is the export module: FSModelExp.dle

The module used in P3D's SDK was specifically compiled to be compatible with Max2009.

Even the FSX SDK comes with two versions of this same export module; one for Max7/8 and a newer version for Max9/Max2008.

It didn't help a bit that Autodesk decided to change the version "names" for Max!

On the other hand, the FSModelExp.dle module only exports an .x file. What pray tell then is a .flt file? I've never heard of that before... :confused:

Beautiful tower by the way! Stunning! You could probably reduce the textures to 1024^2 without loosing too much resolution though.
 
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Since the flt file went through modelconverterx, it must have been an openflight file. It's a common format is professional flight simulators.
 
Congrats Mick! Awesome looking tower!

I wonder if using Maps to generate your in-sim graphics would reduce run nicely on your tower? Mips have distance LOD focussing. Hazy at far distance and side views.



To be perfectly honest though, in terms of technology, I much prefer the 30s with all the cool stuff around. Schienenzeppelins, Fliegende Hamburger, E93s, BR 01s, BR 05s and, the pinnacle of coolness on rails before WW2, the E18/19.
(Bill O., look them up. You're gonna love the designs!)

Roger that, I will.
 
[...]Swabians and Swiss[...]

:-)

[...]What pray tell then is a .flt file?[...]

Flight Studio OpenFlight (*.FLT). I made the model with 3dsMax 2012 (64bit) and the OpenFlight exporter is build in...

Beautiful tower by the way! Stunning! You could probably reduce the textures to 1024^2 without loosing too much resolution though.

Thank you, but I cannot imagine where to put a water tower without a steam engine depot :-)

Mick!
 
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Flight Studio OpenFlight (*.FLT). I made the model with 3dsMax 2012 (64bit) and the OpenFlight exporter is build in...

Oh, I see. In that case you only needed the FSX compiler (XtoMDL.exe) so that MCX would have it available.
 
Jedzd abr! Ohne uns Schwabe hädded ihr neddmol oi Audo (Schdichword Gottlieb Daimler) :p

Awwa Karl Benz war erschder. Un' der war Badener. Also hädd's aach ohne Schwabe' Audos gegewwe.



(NOW this thread has derailed.)
 
Ok... I took 3 years of German and I never saw this dialect.

I take it Schwabian is a territory old writing/accent of German?
 
But without the Sumerians that invented the wheel you would not get far:).
Mist, always those small details which spoil the fun.. :( :D

Ok... I took 3 years of German and I never saw this dialect.

I take it Schwabian is a territory old writing/accent of German?
Yes, it's in Baden-Württemberg (Shouth-West Germany). It's still spoken, but usually not writen.
Schwaben is in Württemberg, the dialect I was writing. Björn's is the one from Baden (if I saw it right). Both areas were put together after the war. Well, you could call it hate-love. So, Björn, I don't catch that up now... :D

Here is an example of spoken swabian:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF2djJcPO2A

Kai
 
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That is hilarious....

I hardly understood a word.

My thoughts of a pure German language have been shattered....
 
That is hilarious....

I hardly understood a word.

My thoughts of a pure German language have been shattered....

Oh, Hochdeutsch does exist, but is rarely spoken by other that the literati and other such poofs... :duck:
 
Oh, Hochdeutsch does exist, but is rarely spoken by other that the literati and other such poofs... :duck:

Well, the Hannoverans are said to speak the highest of high german.
(I can confirm this from experience)

But I much prefer my Prussian (at least that's what some people say it sounds like).
Especially useful to peeve off Bavarians. Or Austrians.
 
Well, the Hannoverans are said to speak the highest of high german.
(I can confirm this from experience)

But I much prefer my Prussian (at least that's what some people say it sounds like).
Especially useful to peeve off Bavarians. Or Austrians.

When I attended Leysin American School in Leysin-Feydey, Switzerland, I was taught Hochdeutsch by an English lady, who had to retire from a career in Italian Opera when her legs developed a form of elephantitis...

Ms. Oldcorn had a wonderful voice, but honestly her pincushion feet and elephant sized legs were quite hideous to look at, bless her heart.

In any case, many of the local Swiss had a very hard time understanding my Hochdeutsch, but then again they had a hard time understanding anyone from the village in the next valley over! Never in my life have I ever encountered so many dialects of Italian, French and German!

The school's philosophy was that all student's classes would be taught in at least two of the three official languages, unless their native language happened to be one of the three. They had it "easy" since all their classes were in English! Unfair!

As a result all my sciences were taught in German, and my arts in French.

Calculus and physics were a major pain in the posterior!

These days my abilities are limited to being able to offend ladies in nine languages...
 
Calculus and physics were a major pain in the posterior!

Ha!

Well, it isn't easy the other way 'round either. Just ask Germans to spell out 10³...


These days my abilities are limited to being able to offend ladies in nine languages...

Maybe you should try tenth language then? :D
 
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