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Apr 15^th, 2004 at 8:18am

NoiseUnit Offline
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I have a 3D wireframe model of an aircraft and would like to use this to generate an aircraft model for FS2004.

I can export this wireframe model from our 3D modelling software in the following formats:

.3DS
.AI
.DWG
.DXF
.IGS

Can anyone tell whether any of the common aircraft modelling applications accept any of the these formats?

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Reply #1 - Apr 15^th, 2004 at 11:33am

Felix/FFDS Offline
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Both gmax and FSDS (with a converter) can import dxf.

gmax can import 3DS directly (I'm not too sure whether it imports the basic mesh, or whether it can import texture mappings and animations)

The other alternative is, if your software is capable, to export to an x file and use makemdl.exe directly.

However, presuming you're obviously familiar with modelling, you're probably better off importing the mesh into gmax and finishing off the model there (any texture remappings, part namings/hierarchy assignments, etc.

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Reply #2 - Apr 16^th, 2004 at 11:35pm

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(I'm not too sure whether it imports the basic mesh, or whether it can import texture mappings and animations)

As far as I can remember (did a few experiments awhile back) it will import the textures and mesh, but no animations.

Of course, I could be wrong . . . Roll Eyes