TW,
Yep, but there are ways to convert the main one...
SC7500,
Agreed, it would be good to have more people in the 'know' about converting and scasm etc etc, BUT it is a huge subject and not an exact science. My head explodes after a few hours of it (maybe I'm just not that bright!! :d).
So to explain and show everything would take miles of posts.
A good start is to get into Ivan's MDLC, read his read-me's and look at all posts about it. Also for scasm is Caleb Flerk's tutorial, immense but good. Most of all, have a play around, see what does what etc etc.
To explain the ISFT. When a model is made and made for a specific flight sim it has a header built in to the coding which id's it for each sim, so eg CFS2 is CFS2 and Fs2004 is FS90. Each sim picks this up and reads the mdl and displays it, that's why you can't put an Fs2004 model straight into CFS2 and see it.
To convert there are many ways and one is to change the ISFT header to read something else so that MDLC can convert it. Using a hex editor, see the Fs9 mdl below, underlined is the ISFT which may have to be changed (and not all Fs9 headers have to be!).
Told you is wasn't an exact science!!
Cheers Shessi
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