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Oct 15^th, 2007 at 6:09pm

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Okay I'm trying to make a NASCAR Dodge car for MSFS2004. When I export it from GMAX, MakeMDL, Middleman, MdlCommander, etc. it takes 2 hours to export and once it's finished and I make it an FS2004 aircraft that works, only half the car shows up but all of my textures show up. I'm not making a VC for it at the moment. The MDL file is 2.56MB. Heres a picture:

[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f258/SkyHigh27000/NascarProblem.jpg[/IMG]

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Reply #1 - Oct 15^th, 2007 at 6:19pm

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Post a wireframe screenshot of your gmax model .... if it's taking that long to compile, I think you're overmodelling

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Reply #2 - Oct 15^th, 2007 at 7:32pm

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There are about 24 parts to the model.

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Reply #3 - Oct 15^th, 2007 at 8:21pm

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I wanted to see a wireframe shot to see how dense is your mesh.

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Reply #4 - Oct 16^th, 2007 at 12:50am

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How many polys is the total car? My Bugatti is around 60,000 total, and it only masses 1.84 Mb. So I'm guessing yours is WAAAAAYYYYY too big. If its too big, that may explain why you're not getting all the parts. Gmax will only export certain amounts of polys. If its too big, it may just disregard everything after a certain point in the export process.

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Reply #5 - Oct 17^th, 2007 at 7:00pm

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It has 173215. Shocked

Woah, that's alot isn't it. I guess i'll have to un-animate the wheels of the car because that's probably what's taking up all the space. I can't wait until the Nascar is done, the FS community will see something new. This will be a Halloween treat for them.

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Reply #6 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 3:37am

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Boeing27 wrote on Oct 17^th, 2007 at 7:00pm:

It has 173215. Shocked

Woah, that's alot isn't it. I guess i'll have to un-animate the wheels of the car because that's probably what's taking up all the space. I can't wait until the Nascar is done, the FS community will see something new. This will be a Halloween treat for them.

You're putting in too much detail, is the problem. I would just try bringing the poly count down for each item. You shouldn't need more than around 45,000 polys for something like that.

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Reply #7 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 2:47pm

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I think the maximum number of polygons allowed by Makemdl is around 60,000. However, I wouldn't want to go that far.

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Reply #8 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 5:12pm

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I think the maximum number of polygons allowed by Makemdl is around 60,000. However, I wouldn't want to go that far.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. My M-505 Junglecat has over 85,000 polys and MakeMDL doesn't ever give me problems with it.

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Reply #9 - Oct 18^th, 2007 at 7:08pm

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I think the maximum number of polygons allowed by Makemdl is around 60,000. However, I wouldn't want to go that far.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. My M-505 Junglecat has over 85,000 polys and MakeMDL doesn't ever give me problems with it.

The limit with FS9 MakeMDL.exe is 64k triangles per model: exterior and interior, for a total project limit of 128k...

If your habit is to use E-Poly mode rather that E-Mesh, then don't forget to at least double the reported poly count (a square poly is still at least two triangles!)... Shocked

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