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Post by wolfgang6444 » Wed Sep 06, 2017 8:40 pm

I have the impression that when placing objects in the scenary (e.g. West-Germany 2) they need to be 'scaled up' by much more than a factor of 2.
This seems to hold for both, existing objects and objects newly created from wings3d.
Is there a general rule how to scale the objects such that they match the landscape and the planes or does this always involve trial and guessing with a test-flight?

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Re: scale

Post by OXO » Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:15 pm

1 unit in wings = 1 metre in Condor.

You may be distracted by the V1 trees which are MASSIVE.

This is corrected in Condor2 :D
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Re: scale

Post by Tom » Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:54 pm

OXO wrote:1 unit in wings = 1 metre in Condor.

You may be distracted by the V1 trees which are MASSIVE.

This is corrected in Condor2 :D
Look nicer too :)
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Re: scale

Post by wolfgang6444 » Sun Sep 10, 2017 9:37 am

O.k.
anyway, I scale the objects so that they seem to have the right size relative to the plane when I fly close to them and look from the outside.
Another question: I don't manage to assign colors to my objects:
Eventhough I create a material with a color in Wings3D and assign it to all faces. The object is just white in Condor.
I double checked the .cx file and it does contain the material definition.
Any idea of what I might be doing wrong? Do I need to define textures?

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Re: scale

Post by pstrzel » Sun Sep 10, 2017 5:15 pm

Yes, you need to assign textures to your objects. This tutorial was very helpful to me: https://youtu.be/wrV_YFnOGzU
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Re: scale

Post by Jan Oorthuijsen » Mon Sep 11, 2017 11:36 am

To place your own (photo) textures on your 3d object.

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Re: scale

Post by wolfgang6444 » Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:16 pm

O.K.
I have created two Cubes in Wings3d - UV-mapped all faces - exported the texture to bmp - painetd the entire area yellow in gimp - reloaded the .bmp in Wings3d; Everything looks godd in wings3d.
Then I have exported the Objects as .3ds.
Then I have converted the .3ds to .cx.
I have copied the .cx into world/objects of my scenary.
I have copied the .bmp to world/textures.
I have edited the path to the .bmp in the .cx
When I open the LandscapEditor I can select my Object. If I try to view it, I get the attached error.
If I remove the bmp I can see my object, but it is all white.
I never would have imagined creating a yellow cube that tedious ;-)

Any hint on what I might have got wrong?
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Re: scale

Post by wolfgang6444 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:24 pm

I have made some progress:
If I edit the .cx file to reference some existing bmp as Texture, everything is fine.
But if I then copy this bmp and edit it in gimp in any respect, I get the attached error message.
According to what I see, the modified bmp is still a 256x256 bmp.
Is there anything speccial, I need to consider, when modifying and exporting the .bmp in gimp?
Should I use another grpahics tool to paint the bmp yellow?

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Re: scale

Post by pstrzel » Wed Sep 13, 2017 2:29 pm

Just save your graphics files as .tga
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Re: scale

Post by wolfgang6444 » Wed Sep 13, 2017 7:26 pm

In case anybody runs into the same problem:
attached are the non-default setting in gimp required when saving the texture as .bmp.
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