Aliasing interior models....

[ATI_7500]

Has anyone ever sucessfully aliased a default aicraft's interior model to an add-on aircraft?
I tried it without sucess with POSKY's 736/7.

Copied all necessary files (textures, panel, interior model) over and put the line "interior=B737_800_interior" into the model.cfg.

The plane appears fine in the plane selection view, but in-gam, both VC and exterior are simply invisible.

When I uncomment the "interior=" line, the model works perfectly again - just without VC.


Strange stuff.

[Hagar]

I tried it with the same result. I suspect the main model has to be tagged in some way for it to work.

PS. The logical step would be to try swapping interior models on the default aircraft.

[ATI_7500]

Yeah, gonna try to take a look at the model files in a hex editor and see if I can edit them somehow.

[Felix/FFDS]

The interior and exterior models have to be made with the FS-X modelling tools.  From what I've seen, you cannot take a VC-less FS9 exterior model and put it with a 'new'  interior model.

[ATI_7500]

...and since .mdl files are locked, you can't open them again to "convert" them to FSX models. Dang!