Thanks Chris!
No, didn't hear from Dutch for a long time but if i can get the Gmax/Max conversion going we'll have a Sperry III to replace the C-47 inop installation right away. It is kindly donated to us by Mike Cyul from Flight Replicas. He told me he had one left over from his DC-4. So if you have the Flight Replicas DC-4 you can start practising. How about that, huh !
Cheers,
jan
Let me know what specifics you want Tom and I'll put together some screen captures.
I struggled with Gmax, re-installing multiple times and trying various tweaks. The program came back to life when I deleted (with extreme prejudice) Windows Telemetry. I'm not sure if that was the fix, but that's what seemed to work.
Gmax (from FSX disks) install is vanilla on my default C Drive.
3DStudio Max 2015 is default, including current updates.
Win10...everything disabled that is not necessary for dev work. All of the Bravo Sierra peripherals went in the round file...hopefully they will remain there. lol
ESET security, with permissions for Gmax and 3DS Max.
3DS-Max GMAX Bridge installation was done exactly as per their install instructions. Be sure to get the right scripts in the right files in Gmax and 3DS Max. It's pretty straight forward.
Arno's tools are up to date as well.
The meshes and animations from the converted models do not seem to have any issues in MCX, although I convert to .mdl via the export menu in Max using Bill Leaming's shortcut tweaks for efficiency.
SDKs
FSX
P3Dv2
P3Dv3
P3Dv4
NVIDIA Drivers are current
Windows is current with a caveat.
The last update really broke my system, so I'm currently working out of dual boot on my Win7 Drive.
I just received the latest Win 10 Enterprise and will need to install a new HD. The system is mirrored, so I'll plug in the working setups as they exist now. Hopefully I'll be back up to full song in the next month or two.
3DS-Max Gmax Bridge
The program worked straight out of the box. I do get some anomalies with euler rotation on landing gear i.e. the K Invader nose wheel that rotates as it retracts. The baked euler from the original model loses it's "align to world" orientation when it comes through the bridge, so all of the axes behave a bit like a Rubik's gyroscope. lol
I resolve that by keeping generic c-wheel and l/r-gear polys in my assets. I replace the originals that potentially "break" the imported bridge code and start fresh with the generic part. It's a bit of work, but nothing like building a new nose gear.
This is the utility that I used to convert the FSD Lockheed JetStar. That was a pretty complex model, and the "bridged" mesh came across quite nicely. Naturally, the main gear and nose wheel will probably need re-code and of course the various props, but I keep a generic set of prop dummies for these kind of conversions. All of the normal control surfaces came across with full animations, as did doors. VC may be another issue, but all of the basic axes and pivots are where they should be. I haven't checked animations yet.
I figure if something that complex comes through the utility relatively intact, I'm way ahead of the game.
I tried for a long time to get FFG to work, but this Gmax Bridge utility is much more intuitive, so it's my work horse now.
Let me know what else you might need Tom.
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Brilliant news about the Sperry Jan and indeed I do have the DC4 by Mike of flight replicas.
This means we will have a fully working C47,FANTASTIC.
Thank you.
Cheers Chris
thanks Jan - yes the caveats - notwithstanding, good news is just all up in this here thread.
I have just downloaded the latest version of this that was done for FSX in 2015 by A.F. Scrub with many thanks. I am subscribed to this thread and will watch as new things come about. For all things N3N check out the site below if you haven't already.
https://notastearman.wordpress.com
The only Windows tweak apart from that I know of is to fix the UVW Editor mouse zooming:- https://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/th...5/#post-790221
I’ve used FFG successfully on several models and haven’t tried Bridge. But then, FFG is my own work, adapted from Bobo’s original, with Manfred’s work on the supporting utilities, so you might expect that...
Tom
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OK, I know this is way OT but what sort of dog and does he like it? Our westie destroys airbeds, but I do wonder about getting him a pool for this weather.It made me buy a doggy-pool
Rats - why won't anything work properly first time?
OT again, we brought one of those solid plastic sand pits for kids and filled that for our 3 terriers, shallow enough to go halfway up em when they lay down, no complaints yet and we don't have to worry about it popping
yes i know i cant spell half the time! Thank you kindly to those few who pointed that out
This is the doggy pool i bought, 1.60 diameter https://dogs.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Dog_Swimming_Pools Quite a fantastic thing, really. (60 euro)
Proofs again dogs are funny guys. First time i had to lure him in splashing around a football. He stayed in for half an hour and loved it. Thought i'd hit the jackpot. Next day, hottest day since 1944 (38 C. ) when i tried the football trick again it took a while before he found a way to get in (he doesn't dare to just jump in via the step i placed. He's a Welsh Gorgi and really loves water and splashing around in it but wants to keep feeling ground underneath his feet, doesn't dare to really swim). Once he was in he splashed around for one minute and then jumped out.... Later i put him in myself but again he jumped out after a minute or so.
Nope, sofar no jackpot or anything... might change though, hopefully.
The funny thing is that i used to have a small pond there at the exact place. When i got my dog he was 6 months old ( replacer ), he's 7 years now, and he couldn't stay away from it. It took him about 3 days to completely ruin my beloved pond by pulling out and destroying each and every plant. During these exercises he frequently fell into the pond but that didn't scare him off. Tried a fench around it but the only thing i got out of that was that the pond became leaky. That was the end of the pond...
Now that he's got his own pond he doesn't seem that interested in it anymore. Probabely because there's just nothing to destroy...
He is a handsome little fella !
this thread has literally gone to the dogs..lol
here's Charlie
Apologies for sending this thread in the wrong direction, and to people seeing there's a new post and opening the thread only to find it's about dogs rather than the N3N.
Rats - why won't anything work properly first time?
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While we are still off topic I should include of my hound.
He is not really a hound and is not a water dog but will use a kiddy pool if it gets really hot.
Back on topic, you should really work on Paul at GAS, this aircraft seems like it would be right up his alley.
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