Hopefully someone will recognize this!

***Cees Donker*** · February 18th, 2012, 12:34

I don't know how this can happen? The hull is in a complete other place all of a sudden. Divided the hull to do a paintjob. Then I joined the parts again....FSDS 3.51

Cees

***ian elliot*** · February 18th, 2012, 13:01

That happen'd to me a couple of times, in FSDS select "select all" from your edit menu, copy and paste the complete ship, then move the bright coloured object out the way then delete, you should see the duplicate appear behind, save that and export the normal way.
copy the FSDS project and save it somewhere safe before you try this, i dont want you coming after me if this dont work,

cheers ian

***Cees Donker*** · February 18th, 2012, 14:12

I'll try it Ian. Thanks! I always backup before I do something like that.,

Cees

That did the job! Thanks so much Ian!

***huub vink*** · February 18th, 2012, 14:36

It reminds me to a certain commercial on Dutch television..........

Cheers,
Huub

***Cees Donker*** · February 18th, 2012, 14:39

Which one Huub?

Cees

Edit: the young guys welding a ship together, and then.......?

**Lionheart** · February 18th, 2012, 14:40

You can get Gmax to do this with the Unlimited Export. You have to have a quad-zillion polygons though to trigger the bug. :S

***Cees Donker*** · February 18th, 2012, 14:42

I only have 3000 here.

Cees

***JDTinballs*** · February 18th, 2012, 15:39

Cees,

do you have any parent/child relationships going on? If so, check the parent and that the axis are aligned to centre, if you've moved parts,their centres may have become mis lodged. Especially if you have animations assigned. Keyframe 0 might be fine, but the rest may not be, run through the ranges from 0-100/200 to check.

Other than that I'm lost.

Jamie

***magoo*** · February 18th, 2012, 19:02

Hmmmm....fond memories of childhood.

Plastic ship models.

Firecrackers.

***Cees Donker*** · February 18th, 2012, 22:12

Originally Posted by JDTinballs

Cees,

do you have any parent/child relationships going on? If so, check the parent and that the axis are aligned to centre, if you've moved parts,their centres may have become mis lodged. Especially if you have animations assigned. Keyframe 0 might be fine, but the rest may not be, run through the ranges from 0-100/200 to check.

Other than that I'm lost.

Jamie

That was my first thought too! But it wasn't so.....

Cees

***Cees Donker*** · February 19th, 2012, 07:50

But after a certain point this method fails. I don't know why.

I'm back at where I was.

Cees

***Cees Donker*** · February 20th, 2012, 22:24

I had to make a new hull. She's coming along nicely. Anchors, railling, additional texturing, there's stil a lot of work to do.

Cees

***Jagdflieger*** · February 21st, 2012, 08:09

Glad to see that you've tamed that tiger! Hopefully it won't happen again.

By the way, she's looking pretty nice.

***Cees Donker*** · February 21st, 2012, 11:50

What can I say David: Dutch navy! Once our national pride!

Cees

**Lionheart** · February 21st, 2012, 19:53

I wonder why the hull was causing this? It might be interesting to find out why this happened. We have a similar issue with FS2004 Unlimited Export program. Once in a while, we hit a similar plateau and suddenly its very hard to export. I found that adding some Spheres to the export would 'sometimes' fix the issue. We also found out that having a dual top end Hierarchy (exterior, main, then main hierarchies) solved things. But now the bug is back for two of us and nothing fixes it...

hmm...