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FSX ModelConverterX and SAMM

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Is it possible to use ModelConverterX to create FS9 models of FSX specific aircraft for use in the static aircraft mdl Maker?

If not, does anyone know of a way to do so?
 
Hi,

ModelConverterX can only export FS2004 scenery MDL files, so you can not export as a FS2004 aircraft MDL.

But you could try to use ModelConverterX to make the static aircraft model directly.
 
Thanks for the reply Arno,

I eventually gave up on trying to use SAMM with FSX. I have FS9 available on another PC and I loaded up all of the FS9 aircraft from my club and so far I have had little trouble creating libraries that work very nicely with IS Ver2. I am converting the texture files from the models folder to 512 DXT1/3 where required to reduce file size. I have not seen any giant difference between a 1024px version and a 512px version.

I do find that aircraft that are for both FS9 and FSX seem to not be liked by SAMM.

That was true for FS9 aircraft from the FS9 PC running SAMM and true for the FSX picked aircraft on the FSX system that failed to make mdl's even though SAMM did not complain when I selected that FSX/FS9 aircraft.

Many thanks to Don for writing this utility. I was fortunate enough to be a beta tester for one of his FSX offerings. Now I have much more work to do to convert all of those aircraft to scenery library objects.

Cheers,
Darryl
Somewhere in Ontario
 
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