Sometimes you have to go full Nelson, Admiral Nelson that is.
Several years ago I downloaded this freebie 3ds model from the net. It was way too poly heavy for FS9 but I hung onto it thinking maybe one day we can get it in FSX.
Unfortunately, the 84 textures it used are .jpegs and are random sizes (not FS friendly).
So, I invested two days resizing textures to FS standards and getting them working with the model in a format that is workable.
Well, just got over that major hump at least with these old basic textures.
I have the model resized to actual specs (length wise) and it is starting to look decent in the sim.
I have it working with HMS Bounty "flight model" and wind controls.
Of course, there are no animations and wind direction and speed dependent visibility for sails and flags.
I really do not know if this can be taken that far but certainly static models are possible.
Here are two FS9 screen shots that showed all I could get exported to FS9 without textures. Looked impressive then.
Two shots are from gmax.
FSX
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