>> Is there a way to get > > threedconvert to preserve the smoothness of the original model? > > You probably need to merge all individual quads and triangles into single > surface for the wing extrado or the fuselage, and remove duplicated > vertices. PLIB only smooth shared edges and shared vertices. Seperated > objects are flat.
OK, here's what I have so far: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/MDL-AC-partial.jpg I'm still learning, so please bear with me :) In the MDL format each surface is its own object. I used AC3D to merge the objects on top of the right wing wing into a single object, called rightwingtop. Then I set the surface type to "smooth" for this object. I did the same for the right tip tank, calling it righttank. I've always wanted to be able to convert from MDL to AC properly, so this is progress. These are the steps, so far: 1) use threedconvert to convert from MDL to AC3D 2) use AC3D to merge surfaces (in MDL they are objects) into objects, and set the surface type to "smooth". Note that the textures were lost. AC3D couldn't load the original BMP textures because they are not 24 bit. Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
