How do I get my model to work in Xplane?

captainpeter · 3rd September 2011, 07:00 AM

I'm not sure if it was the lightwave importer but technically, Planemaker is metric (internally) so if you position a model 1.0000 'units' off center in AC3D it will appear 1 meter off center in X-Plane. Sometimes conversion between 3d formats will mess things up however and 1 unit in lwo format ends up as 0.1 units in an intermediate format and could well account for a 0.01 scaling when the file finally ends up in ac3d.

In your case the file was scaled up by the conversion process. While perfectly visible in AC3D it exceeded x-plane's (or actually Planemaker's) view dimensions.
Think of it as a drone the size of the Nimitz attached to the flight model of a Piper Cub.
Planemaker uses the underlying acf model to calculate its 3d view bounds and hides any geometry too far out.

peter

3rd September 2011, 07:00 AM	#1
captainpeter Senior Member Professional user Join Date: May 2004 Location: Vienna / Austria Posts: 207	Re: Thanks for the info getting model to work in Xplane? I'm not sure if it was the lightwave importer but technically, Planemaker is metric (internally) so if you position a model 1.0000 'units' off center in AC3D it will appear 1 meter off center in X-Plane. Sometimes conversion between 3d formats will mess things up however and 1 unit in lwo format ends up as 0.1 units in an intermediate format and could well account for a 0.01 scaling when the file finally ends up in ac3d. In your case the file was scaled up by the conversion process. While perfectly visible in AC3D it exceeded x-plane's (or actually Planemaker's) view dimensions. Think of it as a drone the size of the Nimitz attached to the flight model of a Piper Cub. Planemaker uses the underlying acf model to calculate its 3d view bounds and hides any geometry too far out. peter __________________ -- P e t e r M e i n i n g e r ------------------------------------ The X-Plane Freeware Project