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17th May 2013, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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Re: X-Plane plugins etc
Yes I tried saving and now also exporting.
Of course the geometry will no longer be animated. But it will be in its correct location and not rotated by 90°. As I said in my first post. You can not export animation except to x-plane. You can however fix the weird position of animated parts and export as a static model. peter
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Oh - now I see what you mean...!
There's a parent-animation which messes up the model. It comes from the way the original model was created and exported. The only way I could find to get the model into another format properly took me a while to discover. You'll need Windows (can be a virtual machine like VMware/Parallels/whatever which is what I was using) and the free ModelconverterX (actually a MSFS tool). If you're interested I can provide more details. I was able to convert the wing to 3ds format and bring the file back to AC3D. peter Quote:
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27th May 2013, 01:50 AM | #4 |
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Re: X-Plane plugins etc
Yes, I have a ModelConverterX. .. Please describe what you do?
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27th May 2013, 04:24 AM | #5 |
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I was using the latest development release of 'ModelConverterX' available at their site. It can import the x-plane .obj file format and will - amazingly - read only the actual animation frames and not the initial position of the 3d parts.
So it actually reads the animation as well. Then simply save as 3ds or wavefront obj. It will export a static model with all geometry positioned at the first keyframe. (beware of .3ds texture filename restrictions :evil: - if you want to keep UV mapping/textures) peter
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28th May 2013, 12:40 AM | #6 |
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Re: X-Plane plugins etc
Your ModelConverterX import models from X-plane 10? I have ModelConverterX 1.3, and I also found latest_development_releases_package, it has ModelConverterX 1.4, but they are released before X-Plane 10... If your ModelConverterX opens OBJ X-Plane 10, could you please post the link, where you downloaded it?
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Yes - here: http://www.scenerydesign.org/development-releases/
Get the latest development release. You the click 'Import' and choose x-plane .obj as filetype. peter Quote:
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