Interest in way to display updated .mdls without restarting FS2004?

[ejoiner 21]

THis would be outstanding! Especially if you can mouse around the views of the airplane. I'd love it if you could look at the planes without even having to fire up FS!!! What an excellent Photoshop plugin that would make.Eric

[Guest Fabio Miguez]

Hey Eric,WOuld be very interesting, yes. But I am affraid it would not be possible in Photoshop, since that program does not seem capable of running DIrectX inside of it.It would most likely be a standalone program, which would be easy to make if the aircraft were in .x format, instead of .mdl. For the later, we would have to probably decompile the file completely before reading it in DirectX, which is the best way of showing it in a 3D environment with textures applied and mouse interaction to zoom in and out, and spin it.

[Guest Erick_Cantu]

That doesn't always work.

[Guest LilSki]

I've reloaded MDLs quite a bit and the reload aircraft function in FS works everytime. On the other hand you are correct about the texture thing. I have found you do not have to reload FS or rename any folders but what you can do, and works for me, is in the display settings in the far right tab where you can set the resolution. Change the world texture size (bottom of panel) from say maximum to one step lower and that will reload all the textures. when making textures in the sim I will simple switch between high and maximum on the world texture size to see my changes and it works everytime.I would like to see if this works for everyone else!!Kevin

[Guest stevenk]

Dear Greg,While looking for some tools to extract the aircraft .mdl, I found this forum. Does your tool allows me to decompile the .mdl file? If yes, I'd be most happy to try it out.Thanks in advance.Steven

[n4gix 4,947]

Fortunately no, it does not. Otherwise he'd run the risk of being one of the most disliked people on the planet... :)After spending nearly a full year on my latest model, I'd be pretty ticked off if anyone 'decompiled it' for any reason; more so since it will be a commercial release.

[Guest Erick_Cantu]

I'll definitely try that. It'd be a lot easier.