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KenK · 10th June 2006, 10:29 AM

You cant open the .acf files as far as I am aware. What you want to do is open up that aircraft model in Plane Maker and go to the "Special" menu. At the bottom of that menu is a "Generate OBJ from Aircraft" option. Select that and it will save the file as "aircraft.obj" in your ROOT directory. I have no idea why the heck it saves it there of all places, but thats where it sticks it on my Mac running XP v8.40. (On a PC it might stick it in C:\, you'll just have to look around for it). You can open the OBJ files up in AC3D if you have the XPlane OBJ Support plug-in installed. It's available here:

http://scenery.x-plane.com/tools.php

Be sure and follow the instructions that com with the plug-in! It's not as simple as dropping the file into the plugins folder! You have to remove the old OBJ plug-in as it is not compatible with XPlane.

I hope this helps. This has been as far as I've gone. I havent saved any changes and brought them back into XP yet.

10th June 2006, 10:29 AM	#2
KenK Junior Member Junior member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 9	Re: X-Plane v8 Aircraft models to ac3d You cant open the .acf files as far as I am aware. What you want to do is open up that aircraft model in Plane Maker and go to the "Special" menu. At the bottom of that menu is a "Generate OBJ from Aircraft" option. Select that and it will save the file as "aircraft.obj" in your ROOT directory. I have no idea why the heck it saves it there of all places, but thats where it sticks it on my Mac running XP v8.40. (On a PC it might stick it in C:\, you'll just have to look around for it). You can open the OBJ files up in AC3D if you have the XPlane OBJ Support plug-in installed. It's available here: http://scenery.x-plane.com/tools.php Be sure and follow the instructions that com with the plug-in! It's not as simple as dropping the file into the plugins folder! You have to remove the old OBJ plug-in as it is not compatible with XPlane. I hope this helps. This has been as far as I've gone. I havent saved any changes and brought them back into XP yet.