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Gents:
I recently upgraded to gmax 1.2 and installed fs9sdk, well,  dynamic shine is a blast only that all my current models comeout as Godzilla. Smaller size ican get is like 50 miles long! now i know that they should be modelled in meters but somehow they dont

First of all, how DO you scale it?

Did you set your system unit preferences to 1 unit=1 meter?

aparently---1 unit 1inch

but before it exported just fine

best regards

Prowler

Prowler,

Have a look at this, especially the part about the different version of makemdl.exe.

http://www.oregon-coast.net/Tutorials/S ... /index.htm

Lou

hello guys
thanks for all but no results..still godzilla, the models are in inches...ok..then i customize for meters, and presto! Godzilla roaming all over
throw me a lifesaver please

best regards

Prowler


PS better yet, how to make specular ie dynamic shining to work with middleman? this damn dynamic shining put me thruall this. i would like a step by step help....please guys
thanks in advance

i used to have the very same problem...

this is how i figure out the scale so it looks right in FS

the thing is, you have to set gmax for 1 unit = 1 meter and THEN you have to measure and resize your model according to the new figures...

what i do after configuring the scale settings is take a known measure such as wingspan and use the tape tool.

specify the lenght of the tape as the plane's wingspan. you'll see it will not fit on the plane... probably will be much smaller.

then all you have to do is uniform scale your model so that it's wingspan matches the tape.

now it should look normal

hope it helped

Moach

Gents:
Thank you all, firestraker, that link enlighted me, so what i finally didd was reinstall the whole thing and acording to what i learned in the link just exported it,  and presto! it did. Only this time i didn