Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

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Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Prowler1111 » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:49 pm

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
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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Felix/FFDS » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:56 pm

First of all, how DO you scale it?

Did you set your system unit preferences to 1 unit=1 meter?
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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Prowler1111 » Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:58 pm

aparently---1 unit 1inch

but before it exported just fine

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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Firestriker » Wed Mar 10, 2004 2:47 pm

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

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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Prowler1111 » Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:48 pm

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

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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
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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Moach » Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:34 pm

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

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Re: Mkmdl is exporting godzilla!

Postby Prowler1111 » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:11 am

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
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