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FS2004 Prop disapear when engine start on FS9 model

Can you point out where to set "unlimited export tweak enabled" change to disabled ?
Sorry found it was on the export menu .. was looking at a option menu.
Is it possible to set those default off ?
 
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I decided to set it on by default since else you might loose small details on export to FS2004. What is the downside of having it on by default?
 
Using Unlimited is not a standard use.
Also won't make people ask like me about the .x file.
unlimited export is one type of option for a model creator.
It's a choice not must , for example AI planes needs to be light.
So thinking from model creating side I think better not be on at default.

Also loose detail or not is from Weld points and optimize on makeMDL.exe
If put that check off , will get the exact shape.
I think I posted in the forum here about that.
 
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Hiroshi Igami said:
Using Unlimited is not a standard use.
Also won't make people ask like me about the .x file.
unlimited export is one type of option for a model creator.
It's a choice not must , for example AI planes needs to be light.
So thinking from model creating side I think better not be on at default.
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Doing that tweak or not does not make a model light or not. The MDL file has the same size. So therefore I didn't think it hurts to have it on.

If you want a X file to manually compile you can export a X file (the unlimited export tweak is only available for MDL files).
Hiroshi Igami said:
Also loose detail or not is from Weld points and optimize on makeMDL.exe
If put that check off , will get the exact shape.
Click to expand...
I tried to disable the optimize and weld option with command line arguments, but that did not work.
 
"Doing that tweak or not does not make a model light or not. The MDL file has the same size. So therefore I didn't think it hurts to have it on."

What is Unlimited polygon model?
As you already know that it's just showing multiple LOD model at once.
Standard is show on 1 level of LOD is 1 exterior and interior.
You can know whats going on at the last part of the root ASM file.

Do those unlimited polygon export is always needed for everyone everytime?
Answer is NO.
For just remove 1 part , change the effects , many people uses at many ways.
How tools are used is not limited.
So keeping a standard and provide as a option is better.

I won't say more about this since you are saying will put a switch on the export menu .
 
Hi,

Let me clarify a few things. As explained in this post below, at the moment I have only implemented the ULE tweaks to get around the 4 mm size limit. I have not yet implemented the tweaks that are related to the 65k limit. Both these tweaks are explained in the ULE tutorial.

arno

Thread 'FS2004 Unlimited Export (part 1)'

For quite some time it has been on my wishlist to study the FS2004 Unlimited Export tutorial that Bill Lionheart made many years ago. It is a very well done and extensive tutorial of over 50 slides. So maybe that scared me off a bit. But recently I read through the tutorial and with my tool developer perspective I realized that it would not be that hard to implement that logic in ModelConverterX. The tutorial has to do al kind of additional steps to work around limitations in the FS2004 GMax gamepack, for example to get your X files. But within ModelConverterX I have full control and...
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The trick is indeed to export the additional details as LOD model and then apply tweaks so that these different LOD models show at the same time (basically become one big LOD). In your post above you seem to suggest that applying this tweak makes an AI model less lightweight, but that is not true of course. When applied to a model that does not go over 65k vertices, basically nothing happens. It's not that applying the tweak will add addition details that are not in your model.

That's also why I think it does not hurt to have this tweak enabled by default. For a simple model it has no impact and when a users exports a more complex model he will directly benefit from the advantage of applying the tweak.

But let me first finish implementing of the 65k limit tweak and once that is working and more users have tested it we can always see if it makes sense to modify the default settings.
 
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