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ModelConverterX performance update

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Over the past weeks I have been working hard to make ModelConverterX work more efficient. And the good news is that I have finished this improvement now, so the next development release contains these optimizations. So this is my (slightly early) Christmas present to all ModelConverterX users. It will give you more available RAM left for other things, as ModelConverterX should use about 50% less for most models.. And not only that, but you should also see that the preview is more responsive when rotating or zooming.

One general warning though, the performance optimizations changed how ModelConverterX works internally. I have tried to test all the different functions, added more test cases to my source code to cover even more functionality, but it might be that some bugs have slipped into this present. If you find such a bug, please let me know in the forum so that I can fix it.

And I have another surprise update in mind that I will start working on now. Maybe that can become my new year present to all ModelConverterX users…

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Your presents - since so many years - are always most welcome, Arno. Many thanks, and have a peaceful Christmas time.
 

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And when I had a look at my bug tracker this morning, it turned out that the new shaders I use gave a compilation error in NVidia cards (apparently my Intel graphics cards do not give such errors). So I have just made a quick fix for that, hopefully the new version will now run for you all.
 

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Many thanks for yours works, FSX, P3D and MSFS would be nicer with you :santahat:
Happy Christmas and I wish 2021 would be a better year than this one :wizard:
 
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Arno, I am very happy with the latest dev release, thank you so much for your continued efforts to improve the tool. I am working on a MAIW AI traffic model conversion project (FS9 to FSX/P3D) which involves dozens of MDL exports and clearly MCX has become now more versatile, easier and faster than a year ago. No more corrupted animations on exports due to certain visibility tags or option settings.

Fijne kerstdagen en een voorspoedig 2021,
Henk.
 
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