Last week I made a model of the airport office of Inishmore with Sketchup. I exported the model as .dae-file and opened it with ModelConverterX. Al went well and the model showed up nicely. After that I opened the Attached Object Editor to Add a Light to my model. In the editor I used the AttachpointName as generated (attpt_light00) and I entered the properties for the position. The little yellow cube showed up at the right place. After that I exported the model as a copy of the original adding to the filename "with light" and closed the ModelConverterX. Two days later I re-opened the saved file (with light)to add another light to the model, but the already attached light wasn't there and the Attached Object Editor was empty. Obviously I am doing something wrong, but what..... ?? Please help !
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Saving lights in Attached Object Editor
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Thanks Arno, I copied the textures to the same folder where the model was saved and yes, the textures and the light are all there !!!
By the way, is this procedure (that is savi8ng to .mdl instead of .dae, the same in case of adding effects to models ?
I try to make some smoke coming out of the chimney ;-))
By the way, is this procedure (that is savi8ng to .mdl instead of .dae, the same in case of adding effects to models ?
I try to make some smoke coming out of the chimney ;-))
OK, Arno, thank you very much. Now I would like to add my lighted and smoking model to the airport. I have made an adjusted airport of Inishmore with ADE and I want to place my model at this airport of course. Now I am with P3D on the apron and the model is correctly placed. but has no textures and the light is missing. Where should I place my textures and why is the light not there. By the way, the smoke from the chimney is splendid. Can you help me again ?
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Hi,
If you used the "default" light you need to copy it where MCX created it and paste it into the Effects folder (I assume that's the proper location in P3D). The textures need to go into the adjoining texture folder, next to the scenery folder where the object's BGL file is located. And they need to be in FS format (DXT, DDS, etc.).
If you used the "default" light you need to copy it where MCX created it and paste it into the Effects folder (I assume that's the proper location in P3D). The textures need to go into the adjoining texture folder, next to the scenery folder where the object's BGL file is located. And they need to be in FS format (DXT, DDS, etc.).