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[Jorge Antunes]

Chiaradia, on Dec 25 2003, 09:39 AM, said:

even following all the steps in the gmax tutorial, i can't assign textures to that little house..  i think that tutorial is for a previous version of Gmax, as things look a little different now, i mean, the screens pics are different than what i get now.. 

Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.. 


Oh, Merry Christmas..

I've red in other foruns that the gmax tutorial (not the scenery design tutorial in the SDK) have an error, but no one has been able to point it out.  

BTW Happy New Year !!!!!! (and hope that Santa has been generous)

[Chiaradia]

uh.. nevermind..  i managed to put the textures on the little house, but now i can't compile the file, i've replaced all the plugins (re-downloaded them) but yet no luck...  i haven't figured out how to use the new MS BGL compiler...  

Do you guys have any tips on that ?

PS: Raligard was able to compile the file i created...     i wonder how..

[Jorge Antunes]

Hello, I've doing some tests but can't export to fs here are two logs:

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mdlcommander version: 1.03
© Doc Moriarty - 2002
original commandline:
argv  0 : D:\3D\gmax\PlugIns\makemdl.exe
argv  1 : -b
argv  2 : -bgl
argv  3 : \\Miguel\FlightSimulator\Addon Scenery\scenery\Box2
no special parameterfile \\Miguel\FlightSimulator\Addon Scenery\scenery\Box2.par found
extracting mdlcommander parameters
looking for model: Box2
calling mkmdl with: mkmdl -bgl "\\Miguel\FlightSimulator\Addon Scenery\scenery\Box2"
created process: 1248
exiting mdlcommander with rc=-1

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Running model

Start! (\\Miguel\FlightSimulator\Addon Scenery\scenery\Box2)
Loading X \\Miguel\FlightSimulator\Addon Scenery\scenery\Box2...
Error in exporter: Mismatch between # vertices (12) and # normals (9) in part Box01.
Error!
Error!

I can't "decode" the logs. Can anyone identify what are we doing wrong just by these logs?
Thanks,
Jorge Antunes

[Chiaradia]

hey Jorge... i got you PM ok...  that's what i am experiencing here too..  i first thought it could be some wrong polygon on the 3d model, but after creating that little house (tutorial stuff) for the 4th time i realized that wasn't the problem...     i get the same scary log box as above...

[Jorge Antunes]

And this is the gmax error message

Attached Files

•  erro.jpg   16.49K   33 downloads

[Jorge Antunes]

I've found in other scenery design foruns that this problem can be resolve by changing  the decimal separator in windows regional options from , (comma) to . (point).
I've tried it this morning and the export process didn't give any error message.But I still haven't check it out in FS due being at work and I believe that my boss would be much happy seeing a plane rater than some maps (or something like that) in my monitor  
When i tested in FS I'll give you the result.
Happy New Year

[Raligard]

Jorge Antunes, on Dec 31 2003, 06:01 AM, said:

I've found in other scenery design foruns that this problem can be resolve by changing  the decimal separator in windows regional options from , (comma) to . (point).
I've tried it this morning and the export process didn't give any error message.But I still haven't check it out in FS due being at work and I believe that my boss would be much happy seeing a plane rater than some maps (or something like that) in my monitor  
When i tested in FS I'll give you the result.
Happy New Year

Very interesting, I would have never thought of that. I hope it resolves both of your problems. Happy GMaxing.

[Jorge Antunes]

Some gMax experimentations.
Me and my collegue of scenery design have spend the day building some imaginary stuff.
Here's two  screenshots  

Edited by Jorge Antunes, 31 December 2003 - 12:32 PM.

[Grogs]

hahaha rali, and better than i did Jorge Antunes

[Chiaradia]

   WHAT DO YOU KNOW ?!!  it worked...  thanks Jorge.. (uh, muito obrigado meu amigo.   )

now i can start working...  

Attached Files

•  House.JPG   166.78K   18 downloads

Edited by Chiaradia, 01 January 2004 - 01:30 PM.

[Jorge Antunes]

The value of these foruns is the share of knowlegde, so I'm happy that I could give you some help.
Keep up the good work!

[Raligard]

Jorge Antunes, on Jan 1 2004, 02:52 PM, said:

The value of these foruns is the share of knowlegde, so I'm happy that I could give you some help.
Keep up the good work!

Thank you for your help in resolving Chiardia's issue Jorge, I appreciate it. Your findings hove been posted in the instructions so that people who experience this problem in the future will have a direct point of reference, be aware of it, and know how to resolve it immediately. Once again, thank you.

[PiP]

Hi,
Does anyone know the best land water mask (and all the other stuff like forest city) editor for FS2004 (I need one that has the level of detail to make things such as small islands and marinas.

[Jorge Antunes]

Hello everybody,
Got this tip from a Portuguese forum (Obrigado José Oliveira   ).
These are two utilities to make flattens and excludes.I haven't tried iet but the person who told me about it is very reliable.
Flattens:
http://www.fs-travel...m/flatten.shtml

Excludes
http://www.estscen.n...xcBuilder_2.zip

Hope it would solve some of your problems.

Jorge Antunes

[Jorge Antunes]

Fernando Maletski, on Jan 15 2004, 08:33 PM, said:

       Thanks Jorge... VC eh brasileiro não?

Nope, I'm portuguese  

[nike]

im new and hello to everyone
i just wondering how did you do your afcads? any site where i can download it?


cheers nike

[Jorge Antunes]

For AFCADS see Lee Swordy's AFCAD in almost every fs donwload site, eg avsim, flightsim, and so on.

[Brad]

http://www.fs2004.co...tion=file&id=63

[Chiaradia]

How exactly can i flat an area using EZ Landclass...   ?   i've tried several things and no luck so far...  any tip on this would be greatly appreciatted...  

Edited by Chiaradia, 07 February 2004 - 09:04 PM.