Hawk UK

An .FBX importer/exporter included for WED/Planemaker??.... I absolutely agree with you OlaHaldor! It would certainly make the development process SO much simpler and efficient. No more waiting for god knows how long, for third party developers to come up with the required plugins for other 3D apps before we can get on with serious hassle free development for this great sim. I'd also like to add(I'm on my soap-box now, guys... COVER YOUR EARS! IT'S RANT TIME!! Hahaha). I can understand that LR want the masses to have access to developing for XP, and that's fine, but if they seriously want XP to be the best there is on the market then they have to get serious about providing an efficient and true means for professional developers to easily apply their work in XP with the industry standard professional tools they have already invested years of time and experience in learning and using; And from what I've seen in LR's support of professional 3D Apps/Import/Export plugins/Updated Tools,Tutorials and Manuals, then LR come up seriously short in their priorities towards those issues. I'm sure Austin could afford Autodesks license fee for the inclusion and implementation of their FBX import/export plugin.... As well as professional coordination and implementation of information and updated manuals, tools, etc, etc... It's all about priorities and professionalism guys...... I'd certainly be willing to pay a few extra dollars/pounds(whatever) to have these issues sorted and implemented. Would be great to hear what you guys feel about this. Okay. Big breath.. I've said my piece...Rant over guys:) Hawk.

Thanks Redfisher, Kieran, OlaHaldor.... At least I know I'm on the right track with this scenery dev. And Ben, thanks for the link to the 3DS Max plugin..... I'd heard that there was one about for 3DS Max, but never found a link for one. It will be easy now to work in Maya(My preference:) ) and export my files to 3DS Max in .fbx then use the plugin to export to X-Plane 10...... GREAT!! You've made my day guys. Thanks!! Hawk.

Hi.... I'm new to developing scenery/aircraft for XP10 and have been busy studying the dev procedures needed to develop for this amazing sim. Please anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand the dev process for XP scenery development(And this is just a very basic outline); I use WED to outline the basic elements for airport/scenery, but then if I want a very professional finish to a project, then I must set most of those elements to invisible and resort to using Maya(I know I could use blender/AC3D, but I like Maya and would prefer to continue working with Maya rather than learning a new app), in combination with Photoshop(for texture development) for the creation of professional looking Runways/Taxiways and all other scenery objects. Am I correct in this assumption? I do realise the problems with exporting/importing the XP .obj8/.acf file formats and the fact that if I require any animation that I would have to resort to doing the animation in Blender before exporting the finished Item to XP(Why Austin didn't implement the .FBX importer/exporter into WED/Planemaker is a rant I will not go into here; Though I guess it has to do with Autodesks license costs? But this would've made professional quality products to be easily developed and implemented into XP10 without any problems). My main question here is: "Am I on the right track here with my dev procedure and can anyone foresee any pitfalls or problems(not already realised and noted above) I may come up against by using Maya 2011 as a dev tool?" I have been trawling through a huge amount of very useful information and advice here and it seems like you guys/girls have the best XP forum on the web in my opinion.... It's great! I only hope I can help and contribute as much as I can. Thanks:) Regards to all, Hawk.

Hello, Remlap Are you trying to use the X-Plane 10 installer/updater while logged into a different user account from the user account originally used to install X-Plane 10?? This could prevent X-Plane 10 from accessing certain user specific files on your PC. If so, Then try using the Installer/updater while logged in as administrator. Let me know how you get on.