Am trying modeling for the first time after a few years of flying simulators. I have downloaded Starry's unfinished  Whitley gmax bomber and would like to fly it in CFS2. (Is there an sdk pack available for cfs2?)

I have downloaded the fs2004 sdk packs and the gmax packs and the middleman. Tried getting an mdl file by exporting from gmax but no go so far. I have gotten past all the gripes except for several of the form:

"node gear01 has scale applied, remove before exporting"

Actually there are about six such gripes, all related to the retractable gear. So far I haven't found out what "scale" it is talking about. Any clues? I also downloaded the gmax tutorial but haven't found the right "scale" yet.

Jimski

also, make sure, that when you reset scale, your animation slider is set to zero, and be careful when reseting on linked parts (always go from child to parent, or else bad things happen to your animations )


c ya

Moach

I have found that if I reboot the machine before exporting I can usually avoid the invalid X file problem.  GMAX is a bit of a memory messer-upper, it seems.

Export Selected seems to work better too.


Kev

No, it just means that there is no VC (no group named "interior").

When things get really bad and I can't see what the problem is I start leaving out bits, the most recent parts first and keep trying to export the model until I find the bad part.

Kev