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View problem with aircraft

mikrco

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My aircraft project for FSX has up to this point been going well until now. Suddenly a problem has occurred. The export from gmax appears to be the same as before with everything working as expected, however now when I go to select the aircraft the view is from a long distance away.

In the sim all views work with the except of the spot view which is also some distance away.

No sure where I went amiss - any ideas?

problem.jpg
 
Hi,

You've got some object outside of your model that is drawn a long way in the distance. You might not be able to see it in gMax, but it will be there. ;) Find the offending primitive or dummy, and delete. It should be fine then! :D

Best regards,
Robin.
 
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I tend to agree with Robin.

Could it be something as innocuous as a stray vertex?


I would "Zoom All Extents" and if your model is way too small in the screen, then I would really suspect a stray "something" (part/vertex, etc)
 
That was my first thought as well and have checked and re-checked but have no errant objects or vertices. Something else is going on here and I don't have a clue as to what it might be.

Probably something simple and easy to fix - if I just knew where to look.
 
Hi!

I had this problem when I used Middleman for export, and the solution was quite easy - (re)setting aircraft size using Afcad did the trick. Read the second page in this thread, and see what happens.

/hans
 
bpahe said:
Hi!

I had this problem when I used Middleman for export, and the solution was quite easy - (re)setting aircraft size using Afcad did the trick. Read the second page in this thread, and see what happens.

/hans
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, Hans... AFCAD's Aircraft Editor won't open any model compiled with FSX's XtoMDL.exe file.
 
mikrco said:
That was my first thought as well and have checked and re-checked but have no errant objects or vertices. Something else is going on here and I don't have a clue as to what it might be.

Probably something simple and easy to fix - if I just knew where to look.
Click to expand...

While in Max/GMax, display the entire project as "Bounding Box." Whichever part has the LARGEST "bounding box" is what's causing the eyepoint to be set so far distant.

boundingboxfa4.jpg
 
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Thanks everyone for your responses. I have reviewed your reference threads and tried the suggested remedies. But alas no joy.

Screen shot in "Bounding Box" with zoom extents reveals nothing unusual to me.

problem1.jpg
 
As nothing else seems to be helping, are you loading into a saved flight that had a different aircraft? Sometimes view distances get upset up by the newly imported aircraft.

Mike
 
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