Hey everyone,

I am having a little problem exporting a model form Gmax to FSX.
First off, I have installed the FSX Gmax gamepack in the Gmax gamepacks folder and I am using the shortcut from within that folder.
Now, when I export the model I get a window that pops up like this one



It lists about half of the parts in the model, some of them many times such L_gear_8 as in the pic. I am not sure how to fix this problem or what it is trying to tell me for that matter. When I go to the sim the plane looks terrible but I think that it is mostly a texture problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jon

Thanks Locke,

So how should I go about fixing this? Do I need to remake these parts? Or is there a simpler fix?

Jon

Ok, thanks for the suggestion; I will give it a try tomorrow. The thing that I don't understand is that the model exports fine into FS9. I guess the FSX exporter is more strict about things like this.

Jon

I still can't get the FSX exporter to work either, I am having a different issue though. Has anyone actually got it working yet?

It usally means that you have more than 1 dot in the same spot,I select the part,select all the vertices,set weld on 0.001,(sometimes you might have to go to 0.01 but it could reshape small parts so I would try the 0.001 first), then weld untill no more can be welded at that setting(per Locke),it works for me!

The thing you're solving is colocated vertices, which means there are at least two vertices that share the same spatial coordinates.  For some reason that I've never understood, FS doesn't like this AT ALL, so the converter is designed to filter those out and tell you about them.  So if there are issues like this in any of your parts, you should deffinitely try it on all of them.

Hey everyone,

I am still having trouble exporting my model to FSX. I have a simple model with a simple maped texture applied to it but in the sim that part is completely transparent. I have tried everything that I can think of and I still can’t figure it out. I am using DXTbmt to convert the texture to DDS dxt3 so I don’t know if that is my problem. I have read the documents in the SDK and they are using Photoshop but I only have Photoshop Elements.

Here is a picture, the right side has a texture applied with a defuse color and no map, and the left is a texture with a map and it is completely transparent.





I have played with the alpha and the settings in Gmax but that doesn’t seem to change anything. As always, any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

Jon

Thanks jamez. After looking around over at the repaint forum I think I have something that works. Here is what I have:

Defuse = DDS dxt1 (No Alpha)
Specular = DDS dxt3

When exporting, I select the following;



I don’t know if this is right but it is what I have come up with so far.

Jon