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"Nocrash" tag disappear...

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hi,

I made some runways and taxi signs in Gmax, export them as MDL using the SDK exporter. Before that I attached the 'no crash' tag to my object, since sometimes my plane crashed when running near the signs.

Since I have many many instances of the same object in my scenery, I imported the MDL into MCX, in order to use the Drawcall batching for this object. (As far as I know you can't set this setting in Gmax, can you ?)

But when I reexport the MDL, the object has the "crash avaiability" again....

No problem when I work directly with the MDL exported from Gmax.....

My MCX version is 1.2.0.0 Development Release 06/02/2010 ...

Any idea ? Should I update my MCX version ?

Cheers,

Jerome
 
Hi Jerome,

At the moment ModelConverterX does not support the NoCrash option, I should add that to the todolist. So it is "normal" that you loose this functionality after exporting the MDL from ModelConverterX.

Unfortunately there is also no way to get drawcall batching from GMax directly. So you are a bit stuck here :).

I have put this item on my todo list and will try to have a look at it soon. But I will also be away on vacation for most of the next month, so it will take a while.
 
Arno ... I thought you added a NoCrash option to the Xwriter export settings.

Does this not work?
 
Hi,

That is no crash for the entire object. But that is different from the no crash option you can set with the attachtool script for part of the model.

Maybe for this user it would indeed work fine to disable crash detection at all for the objects involved.
 
Thanks you both for your answers,

Indeed I won't have any problem if crash detection is disabled for the whole model.

But could you explain me the differences between the MDlWriter and the Xwriter ?

Are both used when exporting as an fsX MDL ?

Thanks in advance ,

Jerome
 
Unbeknownst to use, Gmax exports via an X-file

So the process is


---exporter/Xwriter---> Xfile ---- X2Mdl ---> Mdl file
 
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