anyone?

gah! I've never seen that toolbar in my gmax! (the tabbed one which all the modifier icons)

EDIT: aha! there it is!

Do you mean the one that has "Objects, Shapes, Compounds" etc on it?  Just press 2 when you open up Gmax.  It'll pop right up.

well, right now it has a nose, nose doors, nose gear, and a rudder.

UPDATE!

here's a gif of all i have so far. i want to test it, see what works and whatnot, there are no aeilerons or flaps and spoilers as of yet, but there is everything else but the cockpit. any volunteers to conver it? and i also would like someone to make me a cockpit... because i cannot make a person for the pilot. and i need a painter. i cannon make a texture worth crap. any volunteers? pm me, e-mail me, aim me or msn me.

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Uh-oh!  That's a bad sign.  I have never been able to open up a file after I get that message, and I've never been able to track down the culprit.

Have you been saving your work with different file names?  I usually have a section in my Gmax folder with the name of the aircraft, and in that, several folders for each section of the aircraft I've been making such as engines, fuselage, wings, DVC, etc.  Inside each of those folders are multiple versions of the same section.  I start with fuselage01 and then once I have changed something significant, I save it again as fuselage02, and then fuselage03 and so on.  Once I have completed the aircraft in the different sections, I use Merge (in the File menu) to bring them all together in a file I call aircraft_merge or whatever_merge.  I place that file in the main folder of the aircraft I'm working on.  This has saved me numerous times when I encounter problems just like this one.

If you haven't got any backups like that, I think you're SOL.  Sorry . . .

But you might try going into the autoback section of the gmax files folder and see if there is anything in there that pertains to your aircraft.

YES!!!!! all three of them were the plane... and the most recent one didn't work either

now i need to get someone to convert it for me. i already named it. it's the S-1 Hunter. like the name?

hmm.... i modeled the seat inside out. is there a way to reorient the stuff? because it will be quite hard to make a new one, or do it manualy.

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I think you mean the polygons are inside out?  If so, just select all the polys that are inverted and scroll down the modifier stack to the very bottom.  Near the bottom, look for a section with a large button labled "Flip Normal Mode".  There is a smaller button just above this one labled "Flip".  Press this and the polys will invert themselves.

The 2004 MakeMDL SDK is not out (as far as I know) but I will help you out.  Just send the gmax file over to me with the name of the model file you wish it to be named as and I will convert it.  My email address is in your IM box.